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Fix ChatGPT Emoji not saving in WordPress

Mar 2025·3:22·510 views·Matt Knighton

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About This Video Guide

Having trouble saving ChatGPT output with emojis in WordPress? This video provides a quick solution to ensure your emojis save properly. If you're encountering errors when trying to save posts with emojis, it's likely due to incorrect database collation.

Here's what you'll learn:
• How to check your database encoding using WP adminer.
• Identifying the correct utf8mb4 Unicode 520 collation for WordPress tables.
• How to use "alter table" to update the collation of your post table and other major fields.
• Why ensuring correct database encoding is the best solution compared to filtering out emojis.

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