Title: Querying Serialized Data
Last modified: October 13, 2017

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# Querying Serialized Data

 *  Resolved [amddtim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amddtim/)
 * (@amddtim)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/querying-serialized-data/)
 * I’m attempting to use the meta_value shortcode parameter to query a custom field
   that contains serialized data. The data are post ids. In order to search as specifically
   as possible, I need to include quotes, eg, `'meta_value' => '"351"'`. This presents
   a problem with the shortcode because the parameter needs its own double quotes
   to contain the search string. Is there a way around this? I already tried with
   html entities.

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 *  Plugin Author [Darren Cooney](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dcooney/)
 * (@dcooney)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/querying-serialized-data/#post-9588842)
 * Hi [@amddtim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amddtim/),
    You could use the
   following filter. [https://connekthq.com/plugins/ajax-load-more/docs/filter-hooks/#alm_query_args](https://connekthq.com/plugins/ajax-load-more/docs/filter-hooks/#alm_query_args)
 * Hope that helps!
 *  Thread Starter [amddtim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amddtim/)
 * (@amddtim)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/querying-serialized-data/#post-9596815)
 * Great, that’s what I ended up using.

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 * Last reply from: [amddtim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amddtim/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/querying-serialized-data/#post-9596815)
 * Status: resolved