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This plugin is based on the post Convert MySQL Tables to UTF-8 and an existing plugin by g30rg3_x. The reason I modified their code is that they will convert all tables in your database to the UTF-8 charset, but what we need is to convert WP tables, so I changed the code "SHOW TABLES" to "SHOW TABLES LIKE " . $table_prefix . "%", which will guarantee other tables could stay untouched. Besides, g30rg3_x’s purpose was to alter the charset of old WP databases to new UTF-8 databases, but in fact we ...