al.arthur

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  • Forum: Reviews
    In reply to: [Gutenberg] Dread
    Thread Starter al.arthur

    (@alarthur-1)

    Hi Tammie,

    I’ve always subscribed to the metaphor that WordPress core is like the engine of a car that can be used to power just about any type of website. Themes and plugins would be interchangable, and would allow the complete customization of the user experience, including the front facing website and the backend editing environment.

    As a result of this architecture, many people have created themes and plugins that enable users to pick and choose every aspect of how they want thier WordPress website to be. This includes a lot of page builders that enable users to choose what type of editor they would prefer.

    Gutenberg seems like it could be a great page builder option as a plugin, but as part of core will seemingly eliminate the competition while limiting the options available to users. I don’t understand why this is a desirable goal.

    Al

    Wordpress 4.6 now prefers collation method utf8_unicode_520_ci when it is available, which would be on Mysql version 5.6 and above. I’m not sure if this is what has happened in your case, but if your local server is running Mysql ver 5.6 or higher when you set up your installation, WordPress will use ‘utf8_unicode_520_ci’. The problem is many hosts are running some older version of Mysql which does not support it, and so when you try to migrate to the server the new collation method is not recognized and the migration fails.

    You might ask your host to upgrade to Mysql 5.6, but some hosts may not want to do that.

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