Do you want to filter out bad words and unwanted comments from your BuddyPress community website? Tired of profane, spammy messages, comments, and activities showing up on your social network? If so, this article should help.
Filter Out Bad Words From BuddyPress Website
Here’s how to filter out bad words from your community website.
1. The Effect Of Profanity On Social Media
If you run a social networking site or even a small community website, there will always be trolls and spammers looking to chip away at your community’s credibility.
In the modern world, swearing on social media isn’t treated as taboo the way it once was.
But it’s still worth managing. Profanity doesn’t sit well across every audience, especially when people from different countries, cultures, and languages are sharing thoughts and opinions on social media together.
That makes it genuinely hard for a social media admin to keep a site free of profanity and unwanted language across such a varied audience. Fortunately, there’s an easier way to handle it if you’re running a BuddyPress based community.
2. How To Censor Swear Words On A BuddyPress Community
Here’s how to censor swear words on your community website. You’ll need to install the BuddyPress Profanity plugin.
The BuddyPress Profanity plugin censors unwanted words in activities and private messages by matching against a list of keywords you specify. Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to install BuddyPress Profanity.
Once installed and activated, configure the plugin under Dashboard > WB plugins > BuddyPress Profanity.
Here you’ll find a few general settings:
Keywords to remove: enter the keywords you want stripped from the community.
Content to be filtered: the plugin filters three content types: status updates, activity comments, and messages.
Word rendering: choose how filtered words display. You can retain the first letter, the last letter, both, or remove all the letters.
Filter characters: define which character replaces filtered letters.
Case matching: enable or disable case-sensitive filtering.
Strict filtering: filters characters strictly within words.
Front-end filtering:
To see how the plugin behaves on the front end, visit your BuddyPress Activity page, post an activity containing profanity, and update it. The filtered keywords will appear as special characters.
Here’s what that looks like from the front end:
BuddyPress Profanity is a genuinely useful plugin for censoring content from the front end and cleaning unwanted words out of activities and private messages alike.
We hope this article on filtering bad words from your BuddyPress website was useful. If you have any suggestions, let us know in the comments below.
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