Title: Unneeded  serialization and base64 encoding
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Unneeded serialization and base64 encoding

 *  Resolved [andreakappa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andreakappa/)
 * (@andreakappa)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unneeded-serialization-and-base64-encoding/)
 * Hi,
    in your code I’ve seen these lines before and after transient set/get:
 * Before setting :
    `$instagram = base64_encode( serialize( $instagram ) );`
 * After getting:
    `$instagram = unserialize( base64_decode( $instagram ) );`
 * Now, according to set_transient documentation, serialization is not needed before
   insertion, thus even the base64 encoding it’s not needed.
 * Thank you
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-instagram-widget/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-instagram-widget/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Scott (@scottsweb)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scottsweb/)
 * (@scottsweb)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unneeded-serialization-and-base64-encoding/#post-5591154)
 * This code is needed and was added to handle emoji icons in tweets: [https://github.com/cftp/wp-instagram-widget/commit/d84cac3837f23aa2e9fe0aafcb152ded20b5d1ac](https://github.com/cftp/wp-instagram-widget/commit/d84cac3837f23aa2e9fe0aafcb152ded20b5d1ac)
 * Thanks

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