Title: Content Cleaner
Author: colin3440
Published: <strong>February 15, 2017</strong>
Last modified: February 15, 2017

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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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# Content Cleaner

 By [colin3440](https://profiles.wordpress.org/colin3440/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/content-cleaner.zip)

 * [Details](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/content-cleaner/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/content-cleaner/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/content-cleaner/#installation)
 * [Development](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/content-cleaner/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/content-cleaner/)

## Description

The Content Cleaner plugin is an all-in-one tool for automatically removing non-
printable characters from content and
 title fields. After building WordPress sites
for many years, one problem that consistently plagues my clients (especially the
less tech-savvy ones) is non-printable characters in their content or in their titles.
This plugin works by running a regular expression find and replace to clean up post
content, post titles, and even Advanced Custom Fields. It’s extremely lightweight
and works without any setup required.

## Installation

 1. Upload the plugin files to the `/wp-content/plugins/content-cleaner` directory,
    or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress

## FAQ

  Will Content Cleaner delete things I don’t want it to delete?

For most people, Content Cleaner won’t appear to make any difference and won’t remove
anything from your content.

  What is the regex you’re running on the content?

All content and titles are run through a preg_replace function using this regular
expression: ‘/[\x00-\x08\x0B\x0C\x0E-\x1F\x7F]/u’

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Content Cleaner” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ colin3440 ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/colin3440/)

[Translate “Content Cleaner” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/content-cleaner)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/content-cleaner/), 
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/content-cleaner/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/content-cleaner/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/content-cleaner/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0

 * Added ACF compatibility.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0**
 *  Last updated **9 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 4.2 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.7.33**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/content-cleaner/)
 * Tags
 * [clean](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/clean/)[sanitize](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/sanitize/)
   [unicode](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/unicode/)[utf-8](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/utf-8/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/content-cleaner/advanced/)

## Ratings

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## Contributors

 *   [ colin3440 ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/colin3440/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/content-cleaner/)

## Donate

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