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wp_allowed_protocols()

Retrieve a list of protocols to allow in HTML attributes.

Description

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Return

(string[]) Array of allowed protocols. Defaults to an array containing 'http', 'https', 'ftp', 'ftps', 'mailto', 'news', 'irc', 'gopher', 'nntp', 'feed', 'telnet', 'mms', 'rtsp', 'sms', 'svn', 'tel', 'fax', 'xmpp', 'webcal', and 'urn'. This covers all common link protocols, except for 'javascript' which should not be allowed for untrusted users.

Source

File: wp-includes/functions.php

function wp_allowed_protocols() {
	static $protocols = array();

	if ( empty( $protocols ) ) {
		$protocols = array( 'http', 'https', 'ftp', 'ftps', 'mailto', 'news', 'irc', 'gopher', 'nntp', 'feed', 'telnet', 'mms', 'rtsp', 'sms', 'svn', 'tel', 'fax', 'xmpp', 'webcal', 'urn' );
	}

	if ( ! did_action( 'wp_loaded' ) ) {
		/**
		 * Filters the list of protocols allowed in HTML attributes.
		 *
		 * @since 3.0.0
		 *
		 * @param string[] $protocols Array of allowed protocols e.g. 'http', 'ftp', 'tel', and more.
		 */
		$protocols = array_unique( (array) apply_filters( 'kses_allowed_protocols', $protocols ) );
	}

	return $protocols;
}

Changelog

Version Description
5.3.0 Added 'sms' to the protocols array.
4.7.0 Added 'urn' to the protocols array.
4.3.0 Added 'webcal' to the protocols array.
3.3.0 Introduced.

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https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_allowed_protocols