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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