Hey You Gays Filter

Are you tired of people always saying ‘guys’ when they’re talking to a mixed gender group of people? I know I am. One weekend I got four (yes four) comments about my code saying “You guys should…” or “Ask the guys who …” and so on.

All implied I wasn’t the human who wrote the code. Spoiler alert. I was. While I can’t fix the world out there, I do tend to reply with a handy gif:

But I can fix MY site. Since I only need this for comments on my site (I’m in charge of how I write), I can use this:

add_filter( 'comment_text' , 'hey_you_gays', 11 );
 
function hey_you_gays( $text ) {
    static $dblq = false;
      if ( false === $dblq )
        $dblq = _x('“', 'opening curly quote');
      return str_replace(
        array( ' guys', '‘guys', $dblq . 'guys', '> guys', '(guys' ),
        array( ' guys', '‘gays', $dblq . 'gays', '> gays', '(gays' ),
      $text );
}

If you need to use it in titles and post content, steal the code from capital_P_dangit(). After all, that’s what we do.

Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

I’m Mika (aka Ipstenu) and I’m complicated. I’ve been on the net since the days of dedicated terminals and Novation CAT modems and solved Missionaries and Cannibals (or Goats and Cabbages) before I was six, and blog about WordPress and technical/computer things at Half Elf on Tech.

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