sanitize_title( string $title, string $fallback_title = '', string $context = 'save' ): string

Sanitizes a string into a slug, which can be used in URLs or HTML attributes.

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Description

By default, converts accent characters to ASCII characters and further limits the output to alphanumeric characters, underscore (_) and dash (-) through the ‘sanitize_title’ filter.

If $title is empty and $fallback_title is set, the latter will be used.

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Parameters

$title string Required
The string to be sanitized.
$fallback_title string Optional
A title to use if $title is empty.

Default: ''

$context string Optional
The operation for which the string is sanitized.
When set to 'save', the string runs through remove_accents() .
Default 'save'.

Default: 'save'

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Return

string The sanitized string.

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More Information

The ‘save’ context is used most often when saving a value in the database, but is used for other purposes as well. The ‘query’ context is used by sanitize_title_for_query() when the value is going to be used in the WHERE clause of a query.

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Source

File: wp-includes/formatting.php. View all references 

function sanitize_title( $title, $fallback_title = '', $context = 'save' ) {
	$raw_title = $title;

	if ( 'save' === $context ) {
		$title = remove_accents( $title );
	}

	/**
	 * Filters a sanitized title string.
	 *
	 * @since 1.2.0
	 *
	 * @param string $title     Sanitized title.
	 * @param string $raw_title The title prior to sanitization.
	 * @param string $context   The context for which the title is being sanitized.
	 */
	$title = apply_filters( 'sanitize_title', $title, $raw_title, $context );

	if ( '' === $title || false === $title ) {
		$title = $fallback_title;
	}

	return $title;
}

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Hooks

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Uses

Uses
Uses Description
remove_accents() wp-includes/formatting.php

Converts all accent characters to ASCII characters.
apply_filters() wp-includes/plugin.php

Calls the callback functions that have been added to a filter hook.

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Changelog

Changelog
Version Description
1.0.0 Introduced.

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User Contributed Notes

  1. Skip to note 1 content
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    Contributed by Codex —

    WordPress Titles
    To create the file name portion of a URL the same way that WordPress does use this:

    <?php
  $new_url = sanitize_title('This Long Title is what My Post or Page might be');
  echo $new_url;
?>

    It should return a formatted value, the output would be this:

    this-long-title-is-what-my-post-or-page-might-be

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    Contributed by kwaves —

    As was noted in the codex reference page for this function:

    Despite the name of this function, the returned value is intended to be suitable for use in a URL, not as a human-readable title.

    So My Excellent Sentence becomes my-excellent-sentence for example.

    This is because this function applies a filter of the same name to which Wordpress adds sanitize_title_with_dashes by default.

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