WordPress hook directory
sanitize_user
Description
Applied to a user name by the sanitize_user function. Filter function arguments: user name (after some cleaning up), raw user name, strict (true or false to use strict ASCII or not).
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WordPress version history for sanitize_user
This database has information for all major versions from WP 1.2.1 through 2.6. (Note that some intermediate versions are not indexed, particularly 2.0.1 through 2.0.10.) If 2.6 does not show up below, then this hook is deprecated.
| Version | File | Type | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.0.11 | wp-includes/functions-formatting.php | View hook in source | filter |
| 2.1 | wp-includes/formatting.php | View hook in source | filter |
| 2.1.3 | wp-includes/formatting.php | View hook in source | filter |
| 2.2 | wp-includes/formatting.php | View hook in source | filter |
| 2.2.1 | wp-includes/formatting.php | View hook in source | filter |
| 2.2.2 | wp-includes/formatting.php | View hook in source | filter |
| 2.2.3 | wp-includes/formatting.php | View hook in source | filter |
| 2.3 | wp-includes/formatting.php | View hook in source | filter |
| 2.3.1 | wp-includes/formatting.php | View hook in source | filter |
| 2.3.2 | wp-includes/formatting.php | View hook in source | filter |
| 2.3.3 | wp-includes/formatting.php | View hook in source | filter |
| 2.5 | wp-includes/formatting.php | View hook in source | filter |
| 2.6 | wp-includes/formatting.php | View hook in source | filter |
Related Hooks
We find related hooks using word stems. sanitize_user has 2 significant word stem(s): sanitize, user. Note that some of the hooks below may not appear in all versions of WP.