Censor Common Bad Words | Community Social Network WordPress
If you run a community or social network on WordPress, sooner or later someone posts something you’d rather members didn’t see. BuddyPress Profanity censors bad words automatically, before they ever hit the activity stream.
Give it a list of keywords and it filters them out of activities and private messages in real time. Strict and non-strict filtering are both supported, so a flagged word embedded inside a longer, harmless word can be ignored, “fan” as a keyword won’t touch “Profanity” itself unless you turn strict filtering on, in which case it renders as “Pro***ity”.
Features of BuddyPress Profanity
- Add your own list of bad words
- Enable content filtering for activities, activity comments, and BuddyPress private messages
- Choose which word-rendering style to use for the site
- Choose which filter character hides bad words
- Enable or disable case-sensitive filtering
- Strict filtering to catch flagged characters inside longer words
BuddyPress Profanity Settings
Front-end censoring: once your keyword list and filter options are set, the community is protected from unwanted content automatically, no manual moderation needed for the words you’ve flagged.
Activity streams: bad words get filtered out in real time as they’re posted.
Private messages: the same filtering keeps member-to-member messages clean too.
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Worth knowing if you’re starting a community site from scratch rather than extending an existing BuddyPress install: BuddyNext, Wbcom’s free Community OS for WordPress, already ships banned-word, banned-hashtag, and banned-domain filtering as part of its free moderation suite, so you wouldn’t need a separate plugin for it.
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