Title: WordPress post meta complication
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# WordPress post meta complication

 *  [akmjenkins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/akmjenkins/)
 * (@akmjenkins)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-post-meta-complication/)
 * This is not a bug so much as a request for help. Maybe somebody has done this
   before and know how to do it right.
 * I want to store several post meta with they key ‘option’ to my post. The thing
   is, each option is actually an array that has 2 properties…..If i store them 
   as option_1_property1, option_1_property2, option_2_property1, etc, it makes 
   querying based on a certain option value impossible. I can store them each with
   the meta key ‘option’ but I’d have to use a serialized array, which again, ruins
   my ability to query based on the value.
 * Has anybody needed needed to store such data as post meta before? Any ideas on
   how to store the data so my ability to query is still intact?

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 * Last reply from: [akmjenkins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/akmjenkins/)
 * Last activity: [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-post-meta-complication/)
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