wp_filter_post_kses( string $data )

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.

Parameters

$data

(string) (Required) Post content to filter, expected to be escaped with slashes.

Return

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

Source

File: wp-includes/kses.php 

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

Uses

Uses Description
wp-includes/kses.php: wp_kses()

Filters text content and strips out disallowed HTML.

Used By

Used By Description
wp-admin/includes/post.php: edit_post()

Update an existing post with values provided in $_POST.

Changelog

Version Description
2.0.0 Introduced.

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https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_filter_post_kses