wp_filter_post_kses() – Function | Developer.WordPress.org

Sanitizes content for allowed HTML tags for post content.

Description

Post content refers to the page contents of the ‘post’ type and not $_POST data from forms.

This function expects slashed data.

$datastringrequired: Post content to filter, expected to be escaped with slashes.

string Filtered post content with allowed HTML tags and attributes intact.

function wp_filter_post_kses( $data ) {
	return addslashes( wp_kses( stripslashes( $data ), 'post' ) );
}

Uses	Description
wp_kses()`wp-includes/kses.php`	Filters text content and strips out disallowed HTML.

Used by	Description
_wp_filter_post_meta_footnotes()`wp-includes/blocks.php`	Strips all HTML from the content of footnotes, and sanitizes the ID.
edit_post()`wp-admin/includes/post.php`	Updates an existing post with values provided in `$_POST`.

Version	Description
2.0.0	Introduced.