WP Coding standards – escaping the inescapable?

For the first example, a lot of people will use wp_kses_post to handle basic HTML output from wrapper functions. It’s a shortcut for some basic attributes and tags using wp_kses. You could use this function where you specify allowed tags and attributes that can pass through for the second example.

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