Title: Text Obfuscator
Author: confuzzledduck
Published: <strong>February 13, 2010</strong>
Last modified: January 9, 2016

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Text Obfuscator

 By [confuzzledduck](https://profiles.wordpress.org/confuzzledduck/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/text-obfuscator.1.4.1.zip)

 * [Details](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/text-obfuscator/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/text-obfuscator/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/text-obfuscator/#installation)
 * [Development](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/text-obfuscator/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/text-obfuscator/)

## Description

Text Obfuscator is a simple plugin for replacing words and phrases in post or page
content and comments with alternative words and phrases. Initially designed to remove
names from personal blog posts, it can be used to correct common spelling errors
or automatically expand abbreviations.

Each string can be configured to replace text on input saving the modified text 
to the database, or on output preserving the content in the database as it was entered
by the user.

More information and support is available at [Flutt.co.uk](http://www.flutt.co.uk/development/wordpress-plugins/text-obfuscator/).

## Installation

Simply upload the plugin directory to your plugin directory, activate the plugin,
and configure it through the Tools->Text Obfuscator menu.

## Reviews

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Really handy](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/really-handy-11/)󠁿

 [Angel Costa](https://profiles.wordpress.org/angelcosta/) September 3, 2016

Thanks for this.

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Does what it says; very helpful](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-what-it-says-very-helpful/)󠁿

 [websta](https://profiles.wordpress.org/websta/) September 3, 2016

Really pleased with this handy plugin. I have some listserv content that gets regularly
posted to my site via WordPress’ post-by-email function. This plugin helped to clean
out some of that regularly-occurring text. The only issue I have is that it doesn’t
seem to remove HTML (e.g., links in the unsubscribe info)?? Regardless, a great 
plugin.

 [ Read all 2 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/text-obfuscator/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Text Obfuscator” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ confuzzledduck ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/confuzzledduck/)

[Translate “Text Obfuscator” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/text-obfuscator)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/text-obfuscator/), 
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/text-obfuscator/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/text-obfuscator/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/text-obfuscator/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.4.1

 * Fixed issue relating to replacement of words at the end of a line or string.

#### 1.4

 * Added ability to replace content in all post types, not just post and page.

#### 1.3.2

 * Minor change to comments.

#### 1.3.1

 * Modified the behaviour surrounding preceeding and trailing whitespace in tokens
   and values.
 * Modified behaviour so leaving the replace box blank now assumes a match removal
   rule even if ‘remove matched’ is not checked.
 * Added an uninstall function to tidy up settings when uninstalling.

#### 1.3

 * Added the option to apply rules to either pages, posts, or both.
 * Added the option to match or ignore case in matches.
 * Added option to remove matched string, not replace it.
 * Reworked the admin page to (hopefully) make it easier to use with new options.
 * Added settings link to plugin page.

#### 1.2

 * Added option to match partial words.
 * Extracted regular expression building into it’s own function called by all replacement
   functions.

#### 1.1

 * Added ability to optionally do replacement in blog posts, titles, excerpts and
   comments.
 * Added ability to apply each filter on input or output.
 * Fixed a bug blanking posts when there were no replacement rules.
 * Modified escaping to use WP’s built in routines.
 * Added comments throughout.

#### 1.0

 * Updated to use settings methods added to WP2.7.
 * Renamed from ‘Obfuscator’ to ‘Text Obfuscator’.
 * Released on the WordPress plugin directory.

#### 0.2

 * Changes to the way the rules are stored to prevent them getting mixed up.
 * Minor changes to conditional logic.
 * Minor changes to some wording on the admin page.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.4.1**
 *  Last updated **10 years ago**
 *  Active installations **20+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.7 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.4.34**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/text-obfuscator/)
 * Tags
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   [replace](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/replace/)[word replacement](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/word-replacement/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/text-obfuscator/advanced/)

## Ratings

 5 out of 5 stars.

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## Contributors

 *   [ confuzzledduck ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/confuzzledduck/)

## Support

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