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Douche Bag — Our first official Wordpress plugin
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:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 | 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:
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.
99 Comments
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.
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.
Eric said on August 28, 2007
(try it out on me)
Satish said on August 28, 2007
LOL, AWESOME!
This’ll be one of the first plugins I add when I move over to Wordpress.
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.
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!
Jason Sadler said on August 28, 2007
hahahahaha.. i love it travis.
Eric said on August 28, 2007
To see this puppy in serious action, check out the comments on the Britney Spears/Mondonation post
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.
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.
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.
Eric said on August 28, 2007
Yes Connor, your idea should bestow ‘nondouche’ status upon your e-mail.
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!
Mat said on August 28, 2007
God I love this place :)
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.
Eric said on August 28, 2007
I see more of these being released on YGG in the future :)
test said on August 28, 2007
HEhe
Andre said on August 28, 2007
Great plugin! :)
Travis said on August 28, 2007
You got it Mr. Test. lol
Anti-Douche said on August 28, 2007
u'r a douche said on August 28, 2007
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! :)
Dj Flush said on August 28, 2007
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.
Oli said on August 28, 2007
Sorry travis =’(
Didn’t see your comment before I wen’t wild.
Travis said on August 28, 2007
No problem Oli. Your’s wasn’t that bad. No harm done.
Chris Klosowski said on August 28, 2007
Can the commenter “douchbag” themselves?
Chris Klosowski said on August 28, 2007
guess not :P
Jim of Dvo said on August 28, 2007
This is awesome! I’ve read some blogs that do need Douche Bag label.
Self Douche said on August 28, 2007
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.
joe schmo said on August 28, 2007
rofl
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.
lsols said on August 28, 2007
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.
Eric said on August 28, 2007
I made myself a dbag!
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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