Profane words slip into your feed. This plugin masks them on the way out.

Offensive words in the activity stream are masked as the feed renders, so the timeline stays presentable without anyone editing or deleting a member's post. You keep the original wording in the database in case you need it for moderation context.

A single keyword list, edited in one textarea, governs what gets masked across activity, comments, and private messages. You decide which content types are in scope from a checklist, so private messages can be filtered or left alone independently of the public feed.

When bbPress is active, forum, topic, and reply titles and content are filtered with the same word list as BuddyPress. Filtering is wired to the bbPress display hooks, so the masked version shows in the forum while the stored post is unchanged.

Optional email and phone masking detects addresses and numbers in content and prints a masked version, so members cannot harvest contact details out of public posts. The masking runs on text only and leaves links and tag attributes alone.

Choose whole-word or partial matching and case-sensitive or case-insensitive comparison to tune how aggressive the filter is. Pick how a masked word reads, from a single leading letter to a fully blanked word, so the result fits your tone.

Filtering hooks onto the BuddyPress and bbPress display filters, the same hooks those plugins use to print content. The plugin parses the rendered HTML, walks the text nodes, and replaces matched keywords before the content reaches the screen. Because it works on output, the value stored in the database is left exactly as the member wrote it, so nothing is lost and you can review the original wording.

Activity status updates, activity actions and comments, private message bodies and subjects, message thread excerpts, BuddyPress notifications, and create-excerpt output are all filtered. When bbPress is active, forum, topic, and reply titles and content are filtered too, and a BP Better Messages hook is wired for that plugin's formatted messages. The content types shown for selection adapt to whether bbPress is installed.

The word list is a comma-separated set you edit in the admin, seeded with a starter set of inappropriate terms you can extend or replace entirely. A dedicated Import tab bulk-saves a pasted list, and a reset action restores the default seed list. Keywords are trimmed and de-duplicated on load, and matches of two characters or fewer are skipped to avoid masking short, harmless fragments.

Pick the masking character from eight built-in symbols: asterisk, dollar, question, exclamation, hyphen, hash, tilde, or a blank space. Then choose how the word reads once masked, from showing only the first letter to a fully blanked word, with first-and-last and last-letter variants in between. All replacement uses multibyte-safe string handling so non-ASCII words mask correctly.

A strict-filter toggle switches between whole-word matching, which masks a keyword only when it stands alone, and partial matching, which masks the keyword anywhere it appears inside a longer word. A case setting chooses case-insensitive comparison, the default, or case-sensitive comparison. Together these let you decide how broadly the filter catches variants.

Optional masking detects email addresses and phone numbers in content and prints a masked version, so contact details cannot be harvested from public posts. The email pass splits the content so addresses inside tag attributes and links are left alone and only visible text is masked. Both masks are off until you enable them in settings.