wp_kses_post( 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 unslashed data.

Parameters

$data

(string) (Required) Post content to filter.

Return

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

Source

File: wp-includes/kses.php 

function wp_kses_post( $data ) {
	return wp_kses( $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-includes/widgets/class-wp-widget-block.php: WP_Widget_Block::update()

Handles updating settings for the current Block widget instance.
wp-includes/rest-api/endpoints/class-wp-rest-pattern-directory-controller.php: WP_REST_Pattern_Directory_Controller::prepare_item_for_response()

Prepare a raw pattern before it’s output in an API response.
wp-includes/widgets/class-wp-widget-custom-html.php: WP_Widget_Custom_HTML::update()

Handles updating settings for the current Custom HTML widget instance.
wp-admin/includes/media.php: wp_add_id3_tag_data()

Parse ID3v2, ID3v1, and getID3 comments to extract usable data
wp-includes/widgets/class-wp-widget-text.php: WP_Widget_Text::update()

Handles updating settings for the current Text widget instance.
wp-includes/class-wp-simplepie-sanitize-kses.php: WP_SimplePie_Sanitize_KSES::sanitize()

WordPress SimplePie sanitization using KSES.
wp-includes/class-wp-customize-widgets.php: WP_Customize_Widgets::sanitize_widget_instance()

Sanitizes a widget instance.

Changelog

Version Description
2.9.0 Introduced.

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