Disabling profanity filter in wordpress comments

Ah wait, I just realized the culprit might be that akismet plugin that came along when I installed WP. Not for sure though. Going to keep digging..

*edit: ok I don’t think it’s akismet, because I have it disabled and comments with profanity are still being routed to the trash.

• This reply was modified 9 years, 5 months ago by kosmicbird.

Yes! Found it and fortunately only lost about an hour this time.

In wp-includes/comment.php there is this block of code:

if (wp_blacklist_check(
       $commentdata['comment_author'],
       $commentdata['comment_author_email'],
       $commentdata['comment_author_url'],
       $commentdata['comment_content'],
       $commentdata['comment_author_IP'],
       $commentdata['comment_agent']
  ) ) {
       $approved = EMPTY_TRASH DAYS ? 'trash' : 'spam';
  }
}

I had to remove $commentdata['comment_content'] and now it’s not filtering profanity comments into the trash anymore. However now it is routing to the moderation queue… so I still need to figure out how to make it auto approve.

Thanks for the word of caution… in many cases it is best not to edit core files, but for max customization it’s unavoidable. Of course I use a child theme and also externally backup all my mods that aren’t protected by the child theme (now, since I learned my lesson after the recent WP update, which is also the reason why I had to go back and remodify this particular issue). I have also disabled automatic updates for WP and plugins now. But for the average user… those are definitely words to live by 🙂

*edit: I changed $approved = EMPTY_TRASH DAYS ? 'trash' : 'spam'; to $approved = EMPTY_TRASH DAYS ? 'approved' : 'approved'; and now it’s not filtering at all. Problem solved!

• This reply was modified 9 years, 5 months ago by kosmicbird.
• This reply was modified 9 years, 5 months ago by kosmicbird.
• This reply was modified 9 years, 5 months ago by kosmicbird.
• This reply was modified 9 years, 5 months ago by kosmicbird.

True, true. 🙂 I guess I am just a little rebellious 😉 The way I look at it, I’d rather just make a few changes in the core files when possible than to slow my site down with even more plugins (I’m already using about 20 of them!) Not really sure why modifying core files is an absolute no-no if it’s done carefully.

Yea, I think the first time I dealt with this I actually did find where the blacklisted words were coming from and did something to make it stop referring to that list, but this is the first solution I came across and for the sake of saving time I’m just going to roll with it haha.

For anyone looking at this in the future – I would not advise this method if you think you will ever want your site to filter blacklisted words to the trash or for moderation, because (aside from the fact that you shouldn’t modify core files…)it’s very easy to forget what changes were made!

• This reply was modified 9 years, 5 months ago by kosmicbird.
• This reply was modified 9 years, 5 months ago by kosmicbird.