Administration: Sanitize category and tag base to prevent URL encoding issues in permalinks #9797
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Trac ticket: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/16839
This PR fixes category and tag base sanitization in permalink settings to prevent 404 errors when bases contain spaces or special characters.
When users set a category base with spaces (e.g., "Foo Bar"), WordPress generates URLs like
example.com/Foo%20Bar/category
, which results in 404 errors because rewrite rules expectexample.com/foo-bar/category
.This PR -
sanitize_title_with_dashes()