Title: Export/Import in JSON, not SQL
Last modified: July 2, 2020

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# Export/Import in JSON, not SQL

 *  [Alex Kladov](https://wordpress.org/support/users/prowebassist/)
 * (@prowebassist)
 * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/export-import-as-json-not-sql/)
 * Hi,
 * Can you please consider modifying export/import functionality to operate in JSON,
   instead of SQL?
 * Reason being is because when you run “search and replace” on raw SQL data, it“
   breaks” the serialized data values and they don’t import correctly afterwards.
 * With JSON that won’t be a problem.
 * Cheers,
    Alex

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 *  [mwendell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mwendell/)
 * (@mwendell)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/export-import-as-json-not-sql/#post-13500090)
 * This would also allow settings to be more easily tracked in GIT.

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## Tags

 * [export](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/export/)
 * [Import](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/import/)
 * [SERIALIZED DATA](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/serialized-data/)
 * [sql](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/sql/)

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 * Last reply from: [mwendell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mwendell/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/export-import-as-json-not-sql/#post-13500090)
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