This function’s access is marked private. This means it is not intended for use by plugin or theme developers, only in other core functions. It is listed here for completeness.

_make_email_clickable_cb( array $matches )

Callback to convert email address match to HTML A element.

Description

This function was backported from WP-2.5.0 to WP-2.3.2. Regex callback for make_clickable().

Parameters

$matches

(Required) Single Regex Match.

Return

(string) HTML A element with email address.

Source

File: wp-includes/formatting.php 

function _make_email_clickable_cb( $matches ) {
	$email = $matches[2] . '@' . $matches[3];
	return $matches[1] . "<a href=\"mailto:$email\">$email</a>";
}

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Version Description
WP-2.3.2 Introduced.