Contact Messages & Disappearing Acts
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You can be losing customers and never even know it due to an issue with IPV6 and the way WordPress core handles data validation.
VentureBeat.com ran an excellent article by Brett Exnowski, that covers this problem, though I have doubts that his recommended solution will 100% solve the problem.
At any rate, IPV6 takes more characters (Brett says 39, I say up to 45) than IPV4 (15). Many popular plugins have data tables set for just 15 characters. When WP is about to write to the database, it first checks data validation and totally tosses the entire data record if just one field goes over the maximum character limit – no notice; no errors; just “smiles” and moves on.
And someone loses an interested prospect every time this happens.
For more info, read my blog [redacted]
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