Aggressively sanitizes titles for clean, SEO friendly post slugs, and media filenames during upload.
As of April 2026, Strings Sanitizer is a WordPress slug plugin with 30 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 4.3K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.7+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Last updated 13 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Remove CPT base.
Works by converting common accentuated UTF-8 characters, as well as a few special cyrillic, hebrew, spanish and german characters.
Any white space will be replaced by a hyphen, thus generating SEO friendly post slugs, as well as generating Linux-friendly filenames.
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| WordPress | 2.7+ requiredTested up to 3.4.2 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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