Brutkey

mcc
@mcc@mastodon.social

My 18-year-old WordPress site started suffering waves of increasing breakage around the year 2020. First, every one of my posts had its special characters (—, etc) turned into mojibake. Then, all my posts became completely uneditable as the post editor was replaced with a "block editor" that does not understand my existing Markdown and HTML posts.

I've since:
- Installed the "Classic Editor" plugin,
- Added define('DB_CHARSET', 'latin1'); to my wp-config

And here's where things get weird!!