What is the best way to sanitize data?

No the sanitization is already done. Well the mysql_real_escape_string is done, it’s considered bad form to filter html on input. I personally think doing it on output kinda breaches DRY. If you did in WordPress I highly suspect somewhere else will do it again resulting in double html entities encoding.

Also by the way, wpdb::insert is basically just a wrapper for wpdb::prepare.

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