Recently I’ve installed PHP7 on my MAMP and updated to newest version of WordPress. Every time I do a new site all my tables are using collation utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci
I have tried setting define('DB_COLLATE', 'utf8_general_ci'); in my wp-config.php which worked fine until Gravity Forms ignored it and created all it’s tables in utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci
I’ve seen that if utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci is available it will use that so is there a surefire way to stop WP using that collation? Can I just remove that collation as I am having to run 10 ALTER TABLE queries before I can port the database over to staging/live server?
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Not using utf8mb4_unicode…. collation and using a utf8 one instead is a security problem. The right answer is to upgrade your sites and DBs so they all use utf8mb4
