sanitize_title_with_dashes( string $title, string $raw_title = '', string $context = 'display' )

Sanitizes a title, replacing whitespace and a few other characters with dashes.


Description Description

Limits the output to alphanumeric characters, underscore (_) and dash (-). Whitespace becomes a dash.


Parameters Parameters

$title

(string) (Required) The title to be sanitized.

$raw_title

(string) (Optional) Not used.

Default value: ''

$context

(string) (Optional) The operation for which the string is sanitized.

Default value: 'display'


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Return Return

(string) The sanitized title.


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Source Source

File: wp-includes/formatting.php

function sanitize_title_with_dashes( $title, $raw_title = '', $context = 'display' ) {
	$title = strip_tags( $title );
	// Preserve escaped octets.
	$title = preg_replace( '|%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])|', '---$1---', $title );
	// Remove percent signs that are not part of an octet.
	$title = str_replace( '%', '', $title );
	// Restore octets.
	$title = preg_replace( '|---([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])---|', '%$1', $title );

	if ( seems_utf8( $title ) ) {
		if ( function_exists( 'mb_strtolower' ) ) {
			$title = mb_strtolower( $title, 'UTF-8' );
		}
		$title = utf8_uri_encode( $title, 200 );
	}

	$title = strtolower( $title );

	if ( 'save' == $context ) {
		// Convert nbsp, ndash and mdash to hyphens
		$title = str_replace( array( '%c2%a0', '%e2%80%93', '%e2%80%94' ), '-', $title );
		// Convert nbsp, ndash and mdash HTML entities to hyphens
		$title = str_replace( array( ' ', ' ', '–', '–', '—', '—' ), '-', $title );
		// Convert forward slash to hyphen
		$title = str_replace( '/', '-', $title );

		// Strip these characters entirely
		$title = str_replace(
			array(
				// soft hyphens
				'%c2%ad',
				// iexcl and iquest
				'%c2%a1',
				'%c2%bf',
				// angle quotes
				'%c2%ab',
				'%c2%bb',
				'%e2%80%b9',
				'%e2%80%ba',
				// curly quotes
				'%e2%80%98',
				'%e2%80%99',
				'%e2%80%9c',
				'%e2%80%9d',
				'%e2%80%9a',
				'%e2%80%9b',
				'%e2%80%9e',
				'%e2%80%9f',
				// copy, reg, deg, hellip and trade
				'%c2%a9',
				'%c2%ae',
				'%c2%b0',
				'%e2%80%a6',
				'%e2%84%a2',
				// acute accents
				'%c2%b4',
				'%cb%8a',
				'%cc%81',
				'%cd%81',
				// grave accent, macron, caron
				'%cc%80',
				'%cc%84',
				'%cc%8c',
			),
			'',
			$title
		);

		// Convert times to x
		$title = str_replace( '%c3%97', 'x', $title );
	}

	$title = preg_replace( '/&.+?;/', '', $title ); // kill entities
	$title = str_replace( '.', '-', $title );

	$title = preg_replace( '/[^%a-z0-9 _-]/', '', $title );
	$title = preg_replace( '/\s+/', '-', $title );
	$title = preg_replace( '|-+|', '-', $title );
	$title = trim( $title, '-' );

	return $title;
}

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Version Description
1.2.0 Introduced.


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    Contributed by Javier

    Add Current Child-Site Body Class – WordPress Multisite

    // Add Current Child-Site Body Class – Wordpress Multisite
    function childSiteClass( $classes ) {
    	global $current_blog;
    
    	$site_title =  sanitize_title_with_dashes( get_bloginfo('name') );
    	$classes[] = 'website-'.$site_title;
    
    	return $classes;
    }
    add_filter( 'body_class', 'childSiteClass' );
    

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