Is there a reason for the ‘link’ field being stored in a serialized form?
I created a field of the ‘link’ type.
If I output the link by pulling the value from post meta, it comes back in serialized form.
I do get the correct – unserialized – value back if I use get_field. So it’s not a huge deal.
But most of the time I prefer to access values directly from post meta using the wordpress native functions.
Any field in ACF that holds multiple values is stored as a serialized array.
In the case of the link field 3 pieces of information are stored, the URL, The Link Text, and whether or not to open in a new window. This corresponds to the values returned by the native WP link popup that ACF used when editing a link field.
