[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #41718: A "/" character in a post title should become a "-" in its permalink

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#41718: A "/" character in a post title should become a "-" in its permalink
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 Reporter:  pressupinc      |      Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)    |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal          |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  General         |    Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal          |   Keywords:
  Focuses:  administration  |
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 Recently wrote a post with a "/" in the title and was surprised to see the
 words before and after the "/" combined in the permalink. So if I write a
 post called "How to Enter/Exit a Burning Building," the permalink
 ''won't'' be:

 example.com/how-to-enter-exit-a-burning-building

 but rather:

 example.com/how-to-enterexit-a-burning-building

 The second is less intuitive than the first; it's not what the user would
 expect. It's also worse for SEO - nobody's searching for "enterexit," but
 people searching for "enter exit burning" would want to find my article.

 We have a patch for this. It's just changing line 2012 in wp-
 includes/formatting.php from:

 {{{$title = str_replace('.', '-', $title);}}}

 to:

 {{{$title = str_replace( array( '.', '/' ), '-', $title);}}}


 It would be simple to add other characters to the array as well. We gave
 it a bit of thought and are on the fence about other characters, like ":",
 but for "/" it seems pretty clear-cut.

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