FG Fix Serialized Strings

Description

This plugin fixes the serialized strings in the wp_options table. It recalculate the length of each strings.
It can be useful after a migration if you have done a global search/replace in the SQL dump.

Major features include:

  • Repair the options table
  • Repair the postmeta table
  • Restore the lost text widgets

Translations

  • English (default)
  • French (fr_FR)
  • other can be translated

Screenshots

  • Parameters screen

Installation

  1. Install the plugin in the Admin => Plugins menu => Add New => Upload => Select the zip file => Install Now
  2. Activate the plugin in the Admin => Plugins menu
  3. Go to the plugin screen: Tools => Fix serialized strings

FAQ

No questions yet.

Don’t hesitate to let a comment on the forum or to report bugs if you found some.
https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/fg-fix-serialized-strings

Reviews

September 3, 2016
the plugin might be able to fix serialized strings for widgets, but it was not working for fixing a serialized string from a plugin (global content block) with nested data arrays. It seems, that it simply looks for the first pair of double quotes and counts the character between.
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Contributors & Developers

“FG Fix Serialized Strings” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

Changelog

1.2.1

  • Fixed: Replace null by false in the function load_plugin_textdomain()
  • Tested with WordPress 6.6

1.2.0

  • New: Repair the postmeta table
  • New: Tested with WordPress 5.7

1.1.3

  • New: Tested with WordPress 5.0

1.1.2

  • New: Tested with WordPress 4.7

1.1.1

  • New: Change the translation domain according to WordPress translating rules
  • New: Tested with WordPress 4.4

1.1.0

  • New: Restore the lost text widgets
  • New: Tested with WordPress 3.8.1

1.0.0

  • Initial version