Modernizing a Legacy WordPress Database to InnoDB and utf8mb4 Many long‑running WordPress sites still use a mix of MyISAM tables and legacy charsets such as utf8/utf8mb3 or even latin1_swedish_ci. Updating these to InnoDB and utf8mb4 improves reliability, Unicode/emoji support, and consistency across environments. This article describes a practical, repeatable process using a sample database named example, but the same steps…