Please note that plugin was meant to be fun. Don’t expect to see lots of support for it.
Politically Correct swaps the occasional “politically incorrect” term with a more socially acceptable replacement. For instance, if your author types post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), your viewers see post-traumatic stress disorder. If your author types mentally challenged, your viewers see mentally challenged.
Example:
What output shows up if I say “homosexual people”? What about “African-American men”? And “caucasian men”? Does it know the difference between “African-American men” and “black licorice”? Can I say that “Asian people are good at math”?
What about expletives? What happens when I say “have sexual relations you”? “Eat defacate”? “Kiss my rear end”? Does this thing know the difference between “a sexual favor” and “several sexual favors”?
Is this going to give me “post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)”? What will the “vision-imparied”, the “hearing-impaired”, and “the disabled” think about this? What about “elderly people”?
If you have a serious web site, perhaps with a rogue author or two, you can use this plugin to help slow down some of the offense. Or, perhaps more likely, you have a personal web site and you think you could have some fun by replacing words with their PC counterparts.
Features:
- Force filtering on individual posts by use of a custom tag
- Admin can apply the filter to all users or only to specific users
- Admin can apply the filter to all categories or only to specific categories
Planned features
- Allow admins to define custom terms
You can download it here: politically-correct-v0.2.zip
Please note:
Creating this plugin was meant to be a joke, since I find the entire concept of “political correctness” to be not only mentally challenged and wasteful, but I also think it runs completely in opposition to the very nature of “the internet”. It started as a joke, and it continues mostly out of my own desire to learn more about WordPress and its APIs. I won’t be putting a tremendous amount of energy into this plugin, but I provide it both for the enjoyment of those with a sense of humor, and also on the off chance that someone might actually get some legitimate use out of it… such as a multi-user blog with one particularly “brash” author.
But to the losers who are writing in to say it’s a “stupid idea”, I simply say stop taking yourselves so seriously. Instead of whining about what you think is a stupid idea, why don’t you write to me and tell me what you think would be a better idea? Put up or shut up.