Title: FG Fix Serialized Strings
Author: Kerfred
Published: <strong>Oktubre 31, 2013</strong>
Last modified: Abril 29, 2025

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# FG Fix Serialized Strings

 By [Kerfred](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kerfred/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/fg-fix-serialized-strings.1.2.2.zip)

 * [Details](https://ceb.wordpress.org/plugins/fg-fix-serialized-strings/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://ceb.wordpress.org/plugins/fg-fix-serialized-strings/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://ceb.wordpress.org/plugins/fg-fix-serialized-strings/#installation)
 * [Development](https://ceb.wordpress.org/plugins/fg-fix-serialized-strings/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/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

### Mga translasyon

 * 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

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Worked for me](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/worked-for-me-50/)󠁿

 [kdevanti](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kdevanti/) Enero 19, 2017

Fix the broken go_portfolio galleries after switching to SSL

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[not fixing nested serialized strings correctly](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-fixing-nested-serialized-strings-correctly-1/)󠁿

 [bhenselmann](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bhenselmann/) Setyembre 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.

 [ Read all 3 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/fg-fix-serialized-strings/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

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

Contributors

 *   [ Kerfred ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kerfred/)

[Translate “FG Fix Serialized Strings” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/fg-fix-serialized-strings)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/fg-fix-serialized-strings/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/fg-fix-serialized-strings/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/fg-fix-serialized-strings/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/fg-fix-serialized-strings/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.2.2

 * Tested with WordPress 6.8

#### 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

## Meta

 *  Version **1.2.2**
 *  Last updated **11 bulan ago**
 *  Active installations **200+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.8.5**
 *  PHP version ** 5.6 or higher **
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/fg-fix-serialized-strings/)
 * Tags
 * [fix](https://ceb.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/fix/)[serialized](https://ceb.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/serialized/)
   [widgets](https://ceb.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widgets/)[wp_options](https://ceb.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/wp_options/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://ceb.wordpress.org/plugins/fg-fix-serialized-strings/advanced/)

## Ratings

 3.7 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  2 5-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/fg-fix-serialized-strings/reviews/?filter=5)
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 *  [  1 1-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/fg-fix-serialized-strings/reviews/?filter=1)

[Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/fg-fix-serialized-strings/reviews/#new-post)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Kerfred ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kerfred/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/fg-fix-serialized-strings/)

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