Title: Remove Certain Characters from Post Title
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Remove Certain Characters from Post Title

 *  [futurepocket](https://wordpress.org/support/users/futurepocket/)
 * (@futurepocket)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-certain-characters-from-post-title/)
 * Hi,
    I was wondering if there was a way to restrict/remove certain characters
   from the title of a post and just continue to the rest of the title. For example,
   if someone posts something like:
 * SPANISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?
 * I want to make it so it removes most of the exclamation marks except a few. Any
   way to do this?

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 *  [Joms](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jomsky/)
 * (@jomsky)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-certain-characters-from-post-title/#post-2187561)
 * You can use different PHP string functions depending on what you want.
    More 
   info here: [http://php.net/manual/en/ref.strings.php](http://php.net/manual/en/ref.strings.php)
 * Use one of these functions with the string from `get_the_title()`.
 * With your example above you could use the preg_replace() string function.
 *  Thread Starter [futurepocket](https://wordpress.org/support/users/futurepocket/)
 * (@futurepocket)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-certain-characters-from-post-title/#post-2187836)
 * Sorry, I’m not that advanced with PHP, perhaps a little more guidance?

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 * Last reply from: [futurepocket](https://wordpress.org/support/users/futurepocket/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-certain-characters-from-post-title/#post-2187836)
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