Title: wp_kses_post_deep
Published: February 2, 2016
Last modified: May 20, 2026

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# wp_kses_post_deep( mixed $data ): mixed

## In this article

 * [Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_kses_post_deep/?output_format=md#description)
    - [See also](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_kses_post_deep/?output_format=md#see-also)
 * [Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_kses_post_deep/?output_format=md#parameters)
 * [Return](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_kses_post_deep/?output_format=md#return)
 * [Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_kses_post_deep/?output_format=md#source)
 * [Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_kses_post_deep/?output_format=md#related)
 * [Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_kses_post_deep/?output_format=md#changelog)

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Navigates through an array, object, or scalar, and sanitizes content for allowed
HTML tags for post content.

## 󠀁[Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_kses_post_deep/?output_format=md#description)󠁿

### 󠀁[See also](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_kses_post_deep/?output_format=md#see-also)󠁿

 * [map_deep()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/map_deep/)

## 󠀁[Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_kses_post_deep/?output_format=md#parameters)󠁿

 `$data`mixedrequired

The array, object, or scalar value to inspect.

## 󠀁[Return](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_kses_post_deep/?output_format=md#return)󠁿

 mixed The filtered content.

## 󠀁[Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_kses_post_deep/?output_format=md#source)󠁿

    ```php
    function wp_kses_post_deep( $data ) {
    	return map_deep( $data, 'wp_kses_post' );
    }
    ```

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-includes/kses.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/7.0/src/wp-includes/kses.php#L2433)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/7.0/src/wp-includes/kses.php#L2433-L2435)

## 󠀁[Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_kses_post_deep/?output_format=md#related)󠁿

| Uses | Description | 
| [map_deep()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/map_deep/)`wp-includes/formatting.php` |

Maps a function to all non-iterable elements of an array or an object.

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| Used by | Description | 
| [wp_read_image_metadata()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_read_image_metadata/)`wp-admin/includes/image.php` |

Gets extended image metadata, exif or iptc as available.

  | 
| [wp_add_id3_tag_data()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_add_id3_tag_data/)`wp-admin/includes/media.php` |

Parses ID3v2, ID3v1, and getID3 comments to extract usable data.

  |

## 󠀁[Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_kses_post_deep/?output_format=md#changelog)󠁿

| Version | Description | 
| [4.4.2](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/4.4.2/) | Introduced. |

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