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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 instead.

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

It seems to me that it's very simple to do. It 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.

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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', function ( $title ) {
    return str_replace( '|', '-', $title );
}, 9 );
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    Thank you very much for your suggestion. It indeed is correct, however there was one small mistake which I fixed and edited your post to make it right. (str_replace() doesn't change the subject string, it's output needs to be returned.) Up to now I haven't really looked too much into the WP Core, but I've gone through the manual for the mentioned functions and can say this practical example elucidated a lot for me. Now I actually understand how this solution works. Thanks again and bye :) Commented May 17, 2019 at 11:30
  • Glad to help. Thank you for correcting the error. Commented May 17, 2019 at 12:04
  • Understanding actions and filters is probably the first thing to dive into when trying to understand core. I wrote a small tutorial for that: wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/265952/… Commented May 17, 2019 at 12:26
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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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  • Thanks for your post but this isn't really the solution as it requires that I change the titles, which is simply not how the company names it's projects, i.e. there shouldn't be any spaces. Commented May 17, 2019 at 11:36

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