Title: Feature Request: Switch postmeta from serialized array to standard fields.
Last modified: April 24, 2017

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# Feature Request: Switch postmeta from serialized array to standard fields.

 *  [Garrett Hyder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/garrett-eclipse/)
 * (@garrett-eclipse)
 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-switch-postmeta-from-serialized-array-to-standard-fields/)
 * Hello,
 * I’m making this request as I’ve been burned more times than I’d like to admit
   by the fact CF7 settings are stored as serialized arrays in the database. So 
   whenever I migrate my database from dev to live and do an SQL replace on urls
   in the database it breaks the CF7 settings as the length of strings change in
   the array but the serialized indexes don’t.
 * From my experience, WP devs store serialized arrays more in options and avoid
   them being in postmeta since the standard migration procedure is to do a find
   and replace on that table.
 * *There really isn’t a need for the settings to be serialized into the postmeta
   table as it’s not repeater.
 * Thank you for looking at my request I’m sure I’m not alone with my pain.
 * Cheers

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 * Last reply from: [Garrett Hyder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/garrett-eclipse/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-switch-postmeta-from-serialized-array-to-standard-fields/)
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