WP Polite-ifier Plugin for Swearing
What is WP Polite-ifier?
WP Politifier enforces a certain level of politeness in your comments, replacing recognized swear words with acronym’ed asterisks.
Since I also believe in freedom of speech, the original text is preserved in the title attribute, visible on mouseover. However, it solves the immediate problem of keeping my comments and blog “family safe,” at least at first glance. It also has SEO benefits for publishers running Adsense who want to maintain high-quality text without swearing or cursing in it.
The badwords list is editable through the administrative interface, and kept in a text file in the same directory.
Example:
Download:
Please download politeifier.zip from the official Wordpress Extend site, which will always host the latest and greatest version of this plugin. To install, drop badwords.txt and the wp-politeifier.php into your Wordpress plugins directory and activate in the administrative interface.
Update:
Mike Smullin suggested a patch which fixes a bug where the badwords.txt file is unable to be located. This has been fixed.
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I’m still experiencing trouble with the location of the badwords.txt file. I installed the plugin by uploading the zip file to wordpress to let it install the plug-in and it returns the following errors in the comments:
[code]
Warning: file(/home/bluestak/public_html/motherhoodstress.com/wp-content/plugins/badwords.txt) [function.file]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/bluestak/public_html/motherhoodstress.com/wp-content/plugins/polite-ifier/wp-politeifier.php on line 31
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/bluestak/public_html/motherhoodstress.com/wp-content/plugins/polite-ifier/wp-politeifier.php on line 34[/code]
Can you edit so that the mouse over effect is removed?
This would make a good enhancement as an option.
You can do this with JQuery.
Not sure how the code will show up in this comment… but just put this link before your tag in your header.php file of your theme…
Then put this directly above your tag.
It has to be the last thing before that tag!
// WP jQuery compatibility
var $j = jQuery.noConflict();
$j(function(){
jQuery(‘ATTRIBUTE HERE’).removeAttr(“title”);
});
Change the “ATTRIBUTE HERE” text to whatever you want to hide the mouse-over titles on. A link span or div class etc.
Hope that helps!
I am working on a buddypress plugin and using your plugin as a bad word filter on comments. Everything seems fine, its just on profile’s activity tab it shows every bad word very clearly.. lol
Any suggestions?
Thanks
Hi
Im getting these two error with the plugin:
Warning: file(/usr/www/users/kokstaa/wp-content/plugins/badwords.txt) [function.file]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /usr/www/users/kokstaa/wp-content/plugins/polite-ifier/wp-politeifier.php on line 31
When I tried to replace line 34 with the above help from other users I got another error.
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /usr/www/users/kokstaa/wp-content/plugins/polite-ifier/wp-politeifier.php on line 34
Please could you help, Im using this for a scholl website and its quite important for them.
Let me try it:
**** *****
opps sorry its on line 30.
Great plug in – been meaning to write something along the lines for a while
Thank You
This plug in works fine with 2.9.2. Just open the php file and edit line 34, the plug in looks in the root of your plug in directory. add the polite-ifier after the plug in dir.
$name = ABSPATH . "wp-content/plugins/polite-ifier/badwords.txt";
It might be a nice upgrade to using an an admin screen for this and have a check box there to turn on and off the mouse over, then you could also have a text box for the “acronym” to replace the foul words with what ever is in that admin text box. Another thing I think might be cool is to have a check box for turning on and off the dotted underline and maybe also the same option for a strike through line rather than the underline….
I added code to make it strike a line through the “Acronym” that was pretty easy but options from an admin screen would smooth the user issues.
Just a couple of thoughts from a different perspective, thanks for the plugin. I like it.
I also use this to disguise e-mail addresses, I added the @ symbol to my foul/Bad word list. The e-mail addresses can’t be just copy and pasted.
Unfortunately this ***** isn’t working for me. It reported back some errors on lines 31 and 34. ****
Just testing the sware sensor, otherwise please help.
I want to see this work. So what the ****? Gee, I hope it really doesn’t say ******* on the screen.
Sweet idea! Does the plugin still work? I was goign to manually go thru my blog.
I had an older version of wordpress and it worked fine, but now I’m on 2.8 and it no longer works.
Please update the plugin for wordpress users on more current versions of wordpress
function politeify_callback($matches){
return ‘‘ . substr_replace ($matches[1], ‘@#$?%’, 2, -2) . ‘‘;
}
Here is a variation that deletes the middle of the word and leaves the first and last 2 letters and you can fill the middle with the characters you want.
Line 31 and 32 and there is no guarantee ore even a suggestion that I know what I’m doing… I just play with the code sometimes.
hello.
will this plugin censor words in old posts and comments? or just new ones after the plugin has been activated?
Never mind
i just found out how:
simply add :
add_filter(‘the_content’, ‘politeify’, 19);
to the plugin code…
this will polite-ifi the posts also…
What’s the update in version 1.2?
[...] in your comments, replacing recognized swear words with acronym’ed asterisks… …..read more Download Plugin! Version 1.1 Last Updated: March 29, 2008 Plugin Owner: Elliott Back [...]
First off thanks for the nice plugin. I’ve taken it and changed it so the text file could be edited directly from wordpresss and choose whether or not the original text displays. If you would like to see it let me know.
I have a question. Can this plug-in be changed in such a way that it will change the words \\**** you// into, for example, \\thank you// ?
damn ******* great plugin
thanx
Well, it’s overall hard to filter the word *** as a prefix since it appears as a component in many words, like “massive bass assassin”.
But on the other I think it’s fair to assume that any word containing **** is “bad”. This could easily be implemented with a regex looking something like this:
/(^|\W)(\w*****\w*)($|\W)/iI’m actually surprised that the f word slipped through the filter when I added tard to it.
I agree, nitro2k01, but it’s hard to find prefixes / substrings that won’t be bad for other words. For example, ***.
A better approach would use statistical analysis (n-gram markov) to identify swearing “You *** hole” from legit talk “Dangle a carrot in front of an ***.”
Oh, that test didn’t work out too well. Perhaps it would be an idea to filter all words with eg idiot or **** in them? Support for regex patterns perhaps?
(Test)
Hey you idiotic fucktard!
But honestly I don’t think word filtering is the way to go. The problem is what the person is trying to say, not which words they’re using. It’s perfectly possible to insult someone badly without using swearing. I honestly don’t see the problems Americans see with swearing.
If people swear in your blog comments, it’s probably because you wrote something that provoke people to do it. Choose to write about something else, or delete the whole comment. (You’re likely not going to like the rest of it anyway)
Just my two cents.
i try the **** plugin
fuc*k? *****? runninginabastardandblablablalool
Okay if it work i install it on my blog!
oops, that first code line (the one to be replaced) should be
return '' . str_pad("", strlen($matches[1]), "*") . '';If you don’t want the acronym to show up either, find the line:
return '' . str_pad("", strlen($matches[1]), "*") . '';and change it to
return str_pad("", strlen($matches[1]), "*");great plugin
If you just replace line 30 with the following, it can be put into a directory like any normal plugin instead of cluttering up the plugins folder with files like badwords.txt.
$name = dirname(__FILE__) . "/badwords.txt";You can also replace
str_pad(...)with the clearerstr_repeat("*", strlen($matches[1]))Thanks for this plugin!
good plugin
This plugin 2.5 compliant?
Testing if the name tag is also edited out
i have your plugin installed and activated, but it isnt working – (see corusa.com and make a comment), it posts the bad comment
It’s ok, that’s why I give you a screenshot
lol sorry about that. figured you were using the plugin on this site. whoops.
this is a ******* test, you *******
Hello, this plugin is really good.
Is there a way to replace a specific bad word for a word I choose?
Maybe adding a little code.
Please help me.
Awesome plugin although i would like to actually not have the option for mouse over is that easy to edit in the original setup ? cause i don’t want a mouse over effect either so yea.
THANK YOU! great idea!
great plugin. but the mouse over effect should not be there. cuz what is the actual reason for this plugin?