wp-includes/pluggable.php:2960Generates a random password drawn from the defined set of characters.
$lengthintoptional12$special_charsbooloptionaltrue$extra_special_charsbooloptionalfalsestringOne hook fires while wp_generate_password() runs, in this order:
Filters the randomly-generated password.
function wp_generate_password( $length = 12, $special_chars = true, $extra_special_chars = false ) { $chars = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789'; if ( $special_chars ) { $chars .= '!@#$%^&*()'; } if ( $extra_special_chars ) { $chars .= '-_ []{}<>~`+=,.;:/?|'; } $password = ''; for ( $i = 0; $i < $length; $i++ ) { $password .= substr( $chars, wp_rand( 0, strlen( $chars ) - 1 ), 1 ); } /** * Filters the randomly-generated password. * * @since 3.0.0 * @since 5.3.0 Added the `$length`, `$special_chars`, and `$extra_special_chars` parameters. * * @param string $password The generated password. * @param int $length The length of password to generate. * @param bool $special_chars Whether to include standard special characters. * @param bool $extra_special_chars Whether to include other special characters. */ return apply_filters( 'random_password', $password, $length, $special_chars, $extra_special_chars ); }Introduced in 2.5.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
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