Post/page title to permalink transformation – what is behind the scenes?

WordPress uses sanitize_title to create the URL-friendly version of titles for use as post slugs, which has sanitize_title_with_dashes hooked to the sanitize_title filter. You can see sanitize_title in use in source for wp_insert_post here, and sanitize_title_with_dashes in source here.

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