255 Character Limit for Text Area Element

  • Hello,

    Somewhat recently I had to change a field from a text line element to a text area element, as there wasn’t enough space. However, there is still a 255 character limit. I have tried to uncheck the signup box so that I could make a new field and just keep both fields visible in the participants list but only have the working field on the signup page, but the field still shows up when adding a new participant. It seems like the database fields aren’t updating correctly when I hit Update Fields. Any help would be appreciated!

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  • Plugin Author xnau webdesign

    (@xnau)

    A lag in the updating of a field definition is usually caused by server caching. Clearing the server cache should bring everything in sync.

    You can also check your database directly using phpMyAdmin (usually found in the hosting control panel) the field definitions are in a table named wp_participants_database_fields.

    To check on the data size, you need to look at the main db table wp_participants_database and check on the structure. A text-line field uses a TINYTEXT data type and a textarea uses a TEXT datatype. You can change these if you want, but don’t change a text type to a numeric type, you’ll lose your data.

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