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  • Hey guys,
    As a few topics here already cover, I’m trying to find a better way to convert my underscores to dashes more permanently within the WP system.

    While:
    add_filter( ‘sanitize_title’, ‘dashes_to_underscore’ );
    function dashes_to_underscore( $title ){
    return str_replace( ‘-‘, ‘_’, $title );
    }

    Has worked for me, I noticed that none of my sidebars worked.

    I was more-so wondering if you guys had a better solution (as my team and I publish several entries a day on a few blogs and update the permalink manually is a bit of a hassle when you have long titles.

    I rewrote the code a bit to:
    add_filter( ‘sanitize_file_name’, ‘dashes_to_underscore’ );
    function dashes_to_underscore( $title ){
    return str_replace( ‘-‘, ‘_’, $title );
    }

    and was wondering if you guys forsee any issue with this OR if you know how to make it work at all without affecting anything but my post titles.

    Thanks

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  • Hi hauntingreview,

    I’m looking for the very same thing! So far I’ve used this function, but it also makes my widgets to stop showing 🙁

    /** Dashes to underscores */
     add_filter( 'sanitize_title', 'dashes_to_underscore' );
     function dashes_to_underscore( $raw_title ){
       return str_replace( '-', '_', $raw_title );
     }

    Nothing is really bad, but after publishing, I have to comment it to have my blog display everything as expected 🙁

    I’ve tried 4 (!) different themes + frameworks and all have the same problem, but in different areas.

    And so, I have this question… How can I modify this function to tell WP to only change a post’s slug to underscores?

    As in other threads, I switched from MT where underscores were standard, and so now my pages have decent PR and are indexed that way!

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