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I work for an architecture company and our project names mostly go like this: house|something, bridge|somewhere, building|whatever.
Now, when I want to add a new "project" named like that, Wordpress automatically converts it to housesomething, bridgesomewhere and puts that as the slug. I'd much prefer to keep some kind of separator, e.g. house-something, bridge-somewhere is what I want.

So, how to make WordPress convert "|" to "-" and not "(empty)"?
I'm obviously tired of doing that manually all the time.

It seems to me that it's very simple to do - takes just a simple search and replace kind of thing - if one knows where to look (in the WP core or wherever), but I haven't the slightest idea where to look, or what code to execute.

permalinks slug

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I work for an architecture company and our project names mostly go like this: house|something, bridge|somewhere, building|whatever.
Now, when I want to add a new "project" named like that, Wordpress automatically converts it to housesomething, bridgesomewhere and puts that as the slug. I'd much prefer to keep some kind of separator, e.g. house-something, bridge-somewhere is what I want.

So, how to make WordPress convert "|" to "-" and not "(empty)"?
I'm obviously tired of doing that manually all the time.

It seems to me that it's very simple to do - takes just a simple search and replace kind of thing - if one knows where to look (in the WP core or wherever), but I haven't the slightest idea where to look, or what code to execute.

permalinks slug

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I work for an architecture company and our project names mostly go like this: house|something, bridge|somewhere, building|whatever.
Now, when I want to add a new "project" named like that, Wordpress automatically converts it to housesomething, bridgesomewhere and puts that as the slug. I'd much prefer to keep some kind of separator, e.g. house-something, bridge-somewhere is what I want.

So, how to make WordPress convert "|" to "-" and not "(empty)"?
I'm obviously tired of doing that manually all the time.

It seems to me that it's very simple to do - takes just a simple search and replace kind of thing - if one knows where to look (in the WP core or wherever), but I haven't the slightest idea where to look, or what code to execute.

permalinks slug

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When WordPress inserts a post, it runs the title through a filter called sanitize_title to get the slug. By default there is a function called santize_title_with_dashes attached to this filter with priority 10. This function simply strips out the |. If it is surrounded by spaces those spaces will be converted to hyphens.

So your task is to run a filter on the same hook before (say, priority 9) the default one and replace the | with - before it gets stripped away. Like this:

add_filter('sanitize_title','wpse338050_replace_bar',9,3);
function wpse338050_replace_bar ($title,$raw_title,$context) 
 str_replace('

Beware I didn't test this. Some debugging may be necessary.

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If you put spaces in between the words and the separator | the permalink will automatically include dashes between the words. For instance try this as your post title:

house | something, bridge | somewhere

That results in the slug:

house-something-bridge-somewhere

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When WordPress inserts a post, it runs the title through a filter called sanitize_title to get the slug. By default there is a function called santize_title_with_dashes attached to this filter with priority 10. This function simply strips out the |. If it is surrounded by spaces those spaces will be converted to hyphens.

So your task is to run a filter on the same hook before (say, priority 9) the default one and replace the | with - before it gets stripped away. Like this:

add_filter('sanitize_title','wpse338050_replace_bar',9,3);
function wpse338050_replace_bar ($title,$raw_title,$context) 
 str_replace('

Beware I didn't test this. Some debugging may be necessary.

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When WordPress inserts a post, it runs the title through a filter called sanitize_title to get the slug. By default there is a function called santize_title_with_dashes attached to this filter with priority 10. This function simply strips out the |. If it is surrounded by spaces those spaces will be converted to hyphens.

So your task is to run a filter on the same hook before (say, priority 9) the default one and replace the | with - before it gets stripped away. Like this:

add_filter('sanitize_title','wpse338050_replace_bar',9,3);
function wpse338050_replace_bar ($title,$raw_title,$context) 
 str_replace('

Beware I didn't test this. Some debugging may be necessary.

share|improve this answer

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answered 5 hours ago

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When WordPress inserts a post, it runs the title through a filter called sanitize_title to get the slug. By default there is a function called santize_title_with_dashes attached to this filter with priority 10. This function simply strips out the |. If it is surrounded by spaces those spaces will be converted to hyphens.

So your task is to run a filter on the same hook before (say, priority 9) the default one and replace the | with - before it gets stripped away. Like this:

add_filter('sanitize_title','wpse338050_replace_bar',9,3);
function wpse338050_replace_bar ($title,$raw_title,$context) 
 str_replace('

Beware I didn't test this. Some debugging may be necessary.

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add_filter('sanitize_title','wpse338050_replace_bar',9,3);
function wpse338050_replace_bar ($title,$raw_title,$context) 
 str_replace('

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Pat J

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If you put spaces in between the words and the separator | the permalink will automatically include dashes between the words. For instance try this as your post title:

house | something, bridge | somewhere

That results in the slug:

house-something-bridge-somewhere

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answered 5 hours ago

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If you put spaces in between the words and the separator | the permalink will automatically include dashes between the words. For instance try this as your post title:

house | something, bridge | somewhere

That results in the slug:

house-something-bridge-somewhere

share|improve this answer

answered 5 hours ago

MichelleMichelle

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If you put spaces in between the words and the separator | the permalink will automatically include dashes between the words. For instance try this as your post title:

house | something, bridge | somewhere

That results in the slug:

house-something-bridge-somewhere

share|improve this answer

answered 5 hours ago

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house | something, bridge | somewhere

house-something-bridge-somewhere

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answered 5 hours ago

MichelleMichelle

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answered 5 hours ago

MichelleMichelle

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answered 5 hours ago

MichelleMichelle

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