diff --git a/WordPressUtils/src/main/java/org/wordpress/android/util/EditTextUtils.java b/WordPressUtils/src/main/java/org/wordpress/android/util/EditTextUtils.java
index 64ee67e566a9..66a0c77fdf8f 100644
--- a/WordPressUtils/src/main/java/org/wordpress/android/util/EditTextUtils.java
+++ b/WordPressUtils/src/main/java/org/wordpress/android/util/EditTextUtils.java
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 import android.text.TextUtils;
 import android.view.inputmethod.InputMethodManager;
 import android.widget.EditText;
+import android.widget.TextView;
 
 /**
  * EditText utils
@@ -14,13 +15,10 @@ private EditTextUtils() {
     }
 
     /**
-     * returns text string from passed EditText
+     * returns non-null text string from passed TextView
      */
-    public static String getText(EditText edit) {
-        if (edit.getText() == null) {
-            return "";
-        }
-        return edit.getText().toString();
+    public static String getText(TextView textView) {
+        return (textView != null) ? textView.getText().toString() : "";
     }
 
     /**
diff --git a/WordPressUtils/src/main/java/org/wordpress/android/util/SqlUtils.java b/WordPressUtils/src/main/java/org/wordpress/android/util/SqlUtils.java
index 8d1b4b4379c9..b9c02154d926 100644
--- a/WordPressUtils/src/main/java/org/wordpress/android/util/SqlUtils.java
+++ b/WordPressUtils/src/main/java/org/wordpress/android/util/SqlUtils.java
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
 import android.database.sqlite.SQLiteException;
 import android.database.sqlite.SQLiteStatement;
 
+import org.wordpress.android.util.AppLog.T;
+
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.List;
 
@@ -118,4 +120,22 @@ public static boolean dropAllTables(SQLiteDatabase db) throws SQLiteException {
             db.endTransaction();
         }
     }
+
+    /*
+     * Android's CursorWindow has a max size of 2MB per row which can be exceeded
+     * with a very large text column, causing an IllegalStateException when the
+     * row is read - prevent this by limiting the amount of text that's stored in
+     * the text column.
+     * https://github.com/android/platform_frameworks_base/blob/b77bc869241644a662f7e615b0b00ecb5aee373d/core/res/res/values/config.xml#L1268
+     * https://github.com/android/platform_frameworks_base/blob/3bdbf644d61f46b531838558fabbd5b990fc4913/core/java/android/database/CursorWindow.java#L103
+     */
+    // Max 512K characters (a UTF-8 char is 4 bytes max, so a 512K characters string is always < 2Mb)
+    private static final int MAX_TEXT_LEN = 1024 * 1024 / 2;
+    public static String maxSQLiteText(final String text) {
+        if (text.length() <= MAX_TEXT_LEN) {
+            return text;
+        }
+        AppLog.w(T.UTILS, "sqlite > max text exceeded, storing truncated text");
+        return text.substring(0, MAX_TEXT_LEN);
+    }
 }