Title: Filter when posting
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Filter when posting

 *  [tshadknows](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tshadknows/)
 * (@tshadknows)
 * [22 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/filter-when-posting/)
 * filters like phpGiggle are acting on the post as it is displayed but in some 
   possible casses would it not be faster to filter the content before saving to
   the database? Also, for say a spell check like filter, it would not work so well
   the way it is now alone.

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 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [22 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/filter-when-posting/#post-34681)
 * As I see it, filtering then saving to the DB unnecssarily increases the DB size?
 *  [Sushubh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sushubh/)
 * (@sushubh)
 * [22 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/filter-when-posting/#post-34685)
 * and u wont be able to change the URIs for example at will.
    plus it wont work
   on old posts…
 *  [Jason](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jason/)
 * (@jason)
 * [22 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/filter-when-posting/#post-34712)
 * I can see the benefit of having ‘display filters’ and ‘saving filters’. Perhaps,
   though, it would be better to keep the concept of ‘filters’ confined to what 
   we currently know as filters… something like a spell check might be described
   as a plugin instead of a filter.
 *  [frank](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frank/)
 * (@frank)
 * [22 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/filter-when-posting/#post-35030)
 * I agree, better filter before saving than filter each time when displaying, maybe
   for the next version (I hope).

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 * Last activity: [22 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/filter-when-posting/#post-35030)
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