diff --git a/src/my-calendar-ajax.php b/src/my-calendar-ajax.php
index f78008fe..86b94b5a 100644
--- a/src/my-calendar-ajax.php
+++ b/src/my-calendar-ajax.php
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ function mc_core_autocomplete_search_pages() {
 		foreach ( $posts as $post ) {
 			$response[] = array(
 				'post_id'    => absint( $post->ID ),
-				'post_title' => esc_html( html_entity_decode( wp_strip_all_tags(( $post->post_title ) ) ),
+				'post_title' => esc_html( html_entity_decode( wp_strip_all_tags( $post->post_title ) ) ),
 			);
 		}
 		wp_send_json(
@@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ function mc_core_autocomplete_search_locations() {
 		foreach ( $locations as $location ) {
 			$response[] = array(
 				'location_id'    => (int) $location->location_id,
-				'location_label' => esc_html( wp_strip_all_tags(( $location->location_label ) ),
+				'location_label' => esc_html( wp_strip_all_tags( $location->location_label ) ),
 			);
 		}
 		wp_send_json(
diff --git a/src/my-calendar-locations.php b/src/my-calendar-locations.php
index b2f2621d..7c944734 100644
--- a/src/my-calendar-locations.php
+++ b/src/my-calendar-locations.php
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ function mc_update_location_custom_fields( $post_id, $post, $data, $location_id
 		if ( isset( $post[ $name ] ) ) {
 			if ( ! isset( $field['sanitize_callback'] ) || ( isset( $field['sanitize_callback'] ) && ! function_exists( $field['sanitize_callback'] ) ) ) {
 				// if no sanitization is provided, we'll prep it for SQL and strip tags.
-				$sanitized = sanitize_text_field( wp_strip_all_tags(( urldecode( $post[ $name ] ) ) );
+				$sanitized = sanitize_text_field( wp_strip_all_tags( urldecode( $post[ $name ] ) ) );
 			} else {
 				$sanitized = call_user_func( $field['sanitize_callback'], urldecode( $post[ $name ] ) );
 			}
diff --git a/src/templates/legacy-functions.php b/src/templates/legacy-functions.php
index 1c072ea2..1ff6e22e 100644
--- a/src/templates/legacy-functions.php
+++ b/src/templates/legacy-functions.php
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ function mc_legacy_template_draw_event( $event, $type, $process_date, $time, $te
 		if ( false === $details ) {
 			$details = wp_kses_post( mc_get_details( $tags, $template, $type ) );
 			// Set details to false if it has no content.
-			$details = ( '' === trim( strip_tags( $details ) ) ) ? false : $details;
+			$details = ( '' === trim( wp_strip_all_tags( $details ) ) ) ? false : $details;
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -149,8 +149,8 @@ function mc_legacy_template_draw_event( $event, $type, $process_date, $time, $te
 				$permalink     = mc_get_permalink( $event );
 				$aria          = '';
 				// If the event title is already in the details label, omit ARIA.
-				if ( false === stripos( strip_tags( $details_label ), strip_tags( $event_title ) ) ) {
-					$aria = " aria-label='" . esc_attr( "$details_label: " . strip_tags( $event_title ) ) . "'";
+				if ( false === stripos( wp_strip_all_tags( $details_label ), wp_strip_all_tags( $event_title ) ) ) {
+					$aria = " aria-label='" . esc_attr( "$details_label: " . wp_strip_all_tags( $event_title ) ) . "'";
 				}
 				if ( _mc_is_url( $permalink ) ) {
 					$more = "	<p class='mc-details'><a$aria href='" . esc_url( $permalink ) . "'>$details_label</a></p>\n";