Title: The Definitive URL Sanitizer
Author: dmnet
Published: <strong>February 28, 2009</strong>
Last modified: September 11, 2012

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It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# The Definitive URL Sanitizer

 By [dmnet](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dmnet/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/the-definitive-url-sanitizer.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/the-definitive-url-sanitizer/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/the-definitive-url-sanitizer/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/the-definitive-url-sanitizer/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/the-definitive-url-sanitizer/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/the-definitive-url-sanitizer/)

## Description

The Definitive URL Sanitizer is a simple plugin that really sanitizes posts URL

removing many characters not removed by native WP sanitizer, like ¿, “, ” or ’ Very
useful for non-english bloggers

Take a look at hhe [changelog](http://svn.wp-plugins.org/the-definitive-url-sanitizer/trunk/changelog.txt)
to see update details

## Installation

To install, simple extract the ZIP into your ‘wp-content/plugins/’ directory.
 Once
extracted, you must activate the plugin within the WordPress Site Admin ‘Plugins’
section

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“The Definitive URL Sanitizer” is open source software. The following people have
contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ dmnet ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dmnet/)

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### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/the-definitive-url-sanitizer/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/the-definitive-url-sanitizer/),
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## Meta

 *  Version **0.4.9.1**
 *  Last updated **14 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.7.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.4.2**
 * Tags
 * [permalink](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/permalink/)[post name](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/post-name/)
   [sanitize](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/sanitize/)[sanitizer](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/sanitizer/)
   [url](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/url/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/the-definitive-url-sanitizer/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ dmnet ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dmnet/)

## Support

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