Douche Bag — Our first official Wordpress plugin

August 28, 2007  |  By Travis  |  Entreprenews   

Douche Bag


Most people are nice in person. For some reason, when they have a monitor hiding their face, a few of them act like douchebags. We love the community here and are glad that we don’t have any of these DBs. But when you go popular on certain social bookmarking sites, they seem to arise.

So we created a tool just for those rare instances. It’s a simple and straight forward plugin for Wordpress, called Douche Bag.

When you add the tag to the beginning of a comment, our plugin will automatically insert the Douche Bag.

It only takes a minute to install

Add a copy of the Douche image to your server

Place the “douche.png” image within the root directory of your Wordpress installation. (ex. /www or /html depending on your server) If you have Wordpress installed in a sub-directory, place the image in that main folder.

Add the following code to your theme’s stylesheet:

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img.douche {
  	border:none !important;
  	padding:none !important;
	background:none !important;
	float:right;
	margin-left:5px !important;
}

Activate the plugin

Like you would any other in your Wordpress admin.

Add the douche code to the beginning of any comment you think deserves the honour, just like so:

Douche Bag Code

How to edit a comment

If your theme doesn’t have an “edit comment” link next to each comment, you can locate the douche worthy remarks in your admin. You’ll find that section at something like: http://www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin/edit-comments.php.

That’s it.

This deterrent should help in keeping your blog comments clean and let you have a little fun as well. Instead of letting a douchebag ruin your day, use our little plugin to put them to shame, just like below.

Douche Screen

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Travis
About the author, Travis
One of the original members at YGG, Travis became a partner back in 2006. He's responsible for all the creative and mischief you see before you.

99 Comments

  1. Aaron said on August 28, 2007   

    YGG does it again. You should make some additional images for those who want to spice it up a bit. Mild, Medium, and Extra Spicy.

    Looks like this is gonna be fun.

  2. Travis said on August 28, 2007   

    Glad you like it Aaron.

    We may release an icon pack with a variety of Douche Bags a bit down the road.

    Everyone is more than welcome to make their own Douche Bag that matches the styling of their site.

    Simply save your version as “douche.png” and overwrite the default one on your server.

  3. Eric said on August 28, 2007   

    PWNED!

    (try it out on me)

  4. Satish said on August 28, 2007   

    LOL, AWESOME!

    This’ll be one of the first plugins I add when I move over to Wordpress.

  5. Connor Wilson said on August 28, 2007   

    Man, you lucky bastards get on Digg all the time. Anyways, brilliant idea, I’m definitely going to install this.

    I have to say, you guys post some damn link worthy stuff.

  6. Eric said on August 28, 2007   

    It’s not really luck, it’s good content and elbow grease.

    Let me know if you want someone to be a douche bag on your blog so you can test it out, I’m game.

    Thanks for the kind words too!

  7. Jason Sadler said on August 28, 2007   

    hahahahaha.. i love it travis.

  8. Eric said on August 28, 2007   

    To see this puppy in serious action, check out the comments on the Britney Spears/Mondonation post

  9. Verne said on August 28, 2007   

    Perfect! I caught the beta version in action, good to see the full one get released. ;)

    Note to self: don’t be a douche bag on YGG. Must divert douchage elsewhere.

  10. Connor Wilson said on August 28, 2007   

    If you want to mark one person who is always a douche by default, you could always do this:

    if ($comment->comment_author_email == "douches email") { echo "<!--douche-->"; }

    Right before you display the comment.

  11. Travis said on August 28, 2007   

    That’s an extra evil idea Connor. I love it!

    If and when we release the second version (it’s only been hours damnit), we’ll see if we can enable such an option.

  12. Eric said on August 28, 2007   

    Yes Connor, your idea should bestow ‘nondouche’ status upon your e-mail.

  13. Virgil said on August 28, 2007   

    Another idea is you tag someone a db too many times the bag turns into a super man type logo with a db instead of an s and they become super douchbag ….lol!

  14. Mat said on August 28, 2007   

    God I love this place :)

  15. Virgil said on August 28, 2007   

    I seee other plugins that could spawn from this like a “post whore” plugin for people who post too much, or random comments that really do not bring anything to the table.

  16. Eric said on August 28, 2007   

    I see more of these being released on YGG in the future :)

  17. test said on August 28, 2007   


    HEhe

  18. Andre said on August 28, 2007   

    Great plugin! :)

  19. Travis said on August 28, 2007   

    You got it Mr. Test. lol

  20. Anti-Douche said on August 28, 2007   

    Bow Chica Wah-Wah

  21. u'r a douche said on August 28, 2007   

    **lots of douchebag swearing**

  22. Travis said on August 28, 2007   

    As you can see, you can be pretty creative with the Douche Bag plugin. The above douche worthy comment deserved and received a double DB.

    Simply insert the douche tag twice! :)

  23. Dj Flush said on August 28, 2007   

    This is the most crap plugin ever made :@

  24. Travis said on August 28, 2007   

    People,
    Take a look through the comments before you try and post something nasty. You’ll see examples of previous Douche Bag comments. The plugin works, and I don’t really want to have to insert a hundred more of these.

    Unfortunately, for the people that want to swear, we haven’t finished the Dickhead plugin yet, so I’m just going to delete your comment. Thank you.

  25. Oli said on August 28, 2007   

    Sorry travis =’(

    Didn’t see your comment before I wen’t wild.

  26. Travis said on August 28, 2007   

    No problem Oli. Your’s wasn’t that bad. No harm done.

  27. Chris Klosowski said on August 28, 2007   

    Can the commenter “douchbag” themselves?

  28. Chris Klosowski said on August 28, 2007   

    guess not :P

  29. Jim of Dvo said on August 28, 2007   

    This is awesome! I’ve read some blogs that do need Douche Bag label.

  30. Self Douche said on August 28, 2007   

    self douche bag

  31. Travis said on August 28, 2007   

    Yes you can Chris, as you can probably tell from the couple of exaggerated posts above yours.

    Simply add the douche tag to the beginning of your comment.

  32. joe schmo said on August 28, 2007   


    rofl

  33. Travis said on August 28, 2007   

    If it looks like your comment was deleted, it was because you were an ultimate douchebag, and we deleted it.

    Ease up on the tag abuse and we’ll hold off on closing comments until tomorrow. Thanks.

  34. lsols said on August 28, 2007   

    rofflez?

  35. Mike Owens said on August 28, 2007   

    This is a great idea. I thought of something similar a few years ago, but allowed other users to tag comments with a few different labels. Heh, none were quite as harsh as Douche Bag, though.

    Oddly enough, I just wrote about it just yesterday at the end of this rant: Get A Life: The Most Annoying Guy on the Internet.

  36. Eric said on August 28, 2007   

    I made myself a dbag!

  37. Levi Blackman said on August 28, 2007   

    Very nice plugin.

    Hmm…I think I am going to try to have a reverse type of deal using Connor Wilson’s idea and a image of a star or thumbs up or maybe like #1 stunna glitter graphics. I can have some VIP guests on my blog.

    Any ideas on how to keep visitors from hacking it and posting a million douche bags?

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  40. Travis said on August 28, 2007   

    Levi, this plugin will still work perfectly for you.

    Rename the < --douche--> string and filename to something less obvious and that only you will know. Then use that to insert your more positive image whenever you wish.

  41. Webee said on August 28, 2007   

    Nice plugin

  42. Paul OFlaherty said on August 29, 2007   

    I love this plugin! I don’t hink I’ll ever use it on my blog but I’m sure there’s a few places I could implement it..

    Thanks..

  43. bill said on August 29, 2007   

    All I can say is …. AWESOME!

  44. fred said on August 29, 2007   

    Only problem is that any commenter can insert the douchebag …..

    *EDIT BY ADMIN* – This was filled with a bunch of bull shit. Sidenote: You don’t have to share the “douche” code with anyone, make up what you want and don’t let the cat out of the bag and then it wont be a problem. It’s unfortunate we have such a shit ton of assholes abusing it on this post. I guess that was to be expected.

  45. BIG BOY said on August 29, 2007   

    STAND BY THE MOUNTAINNNNN, CHOP IT DOWN WITH THE EDGE OF HAYAAAANDD

    BWWRAAAAAAAAAA.EEEEEWWWWWWWWWW.BWWWWWRAAAAAA EEEEEEEW EEWWWWWWW

  46. Ozh said on August 29, 2007   

    Funny idea, but rather poor implementation: I’d make it so that blog admins see a “Douche this” button right next to a comment and it would add the douche bag with one click, and no cumbersome & manual comment editing.

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  49. MyThoughts said on August 29, 2007   

    I think there is one thing that might become a problem

    People might always post comments and purposely put the douchebag tag in the front, and they might do that all the time, as to wear it as a sign of honor, or they might just say “I’m douchebagging myself, because your going to douchebag me anyway just because you don’t agree with what I’m saying”, effectively killing the douchebag thing.

    It’s kind of like on digg, when people post comments that they know might cause controversy, and they say at the beginning to just digg me down, but a lot of times people might read the comment and start giving them thumbs up.

    Just put it like this. It could quickly turn into something that is irrelevant, and something that would be annoying, because if you have 20 comments and 10 of those comments have douche tags, you would either have a respectable blog littered with douche icons, or you would have to go through each post and edit it out, which just creates a problem in that you have to do more work.

    Just my 2 cents.

    (see how I have tagged myself as a douche? it basically means you can’t do it now).

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  51. Anonymous said on August 29, 2007   

    Do you let me to myself?

  52. Bob Dole said on August 29, 2007   

    i am

  53. Ozh said on August 29, 2007   

    Hehe. It’s quite funny indeed to see how quick the whole thing was ruined :)

  54. Web Design Scotland said on August 29, 2007   

    Genius…

    Who was the original Douche bag who inspired you to create this plugin Travis?

  55. Travis said on August 29, 2007   

    Our Britney Spears post had quite a few Douche Bag worthy comments, but the one in our Entreprenews this week sealed the deal. Once I saw that the first word that came to mind was douchebag, and so it was born. :)

  56. Pasquale said on August 29, 2007   

    This is the greatest plugin. Ever. I don’t get many douches on my site, but if I do, I will install this sucker right away :)

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  58. mcangeli said on August 29, 2007   

    This plugin has a lot of potential and I’d love to see it developed further.

    As someone previously suggested you could create an admin section where you can add email addresses and an admin only link (maybe right beside the edit comment link) to mark a post as a db would rock. You would have to keep the code a secret though, or it could be abused…

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    haha! that is so cool! downloaded and installed! :)

  63. Lisa said on August 29, 2007   

    for the sake of fairness, a Turd Sandwich plug-in should be created.

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  67. The Lazy Canadian said on August 30, 2007   

    This is magnificent. Truly a work of art.

    If I wasn’t opposed to using “douche bag” as an insult, I’d totally use it. ;)

    10/10!

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    This is a hilarious and original idea. I’ve had a few websites where something like this would have come in handy.

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    Thanks! Nice plugin

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    Douche Bag

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