No Comic Sans, Dangit!

The WordPress community was understandably polarized by the shocking abuses of power represented by the capital_P_dangit() function inserted in core with version 3.0. Personally, I felt like it didn’t go far enough. The same week, Cavs owner Dan Gilbert posted his incoherent “open letter” to NBA.com, cut-and-pasted from Microsoft Word with all the Word formatting spans still intact – including a font-family: Comic Sans declaration. Watching the world’s reaction, I realized that WP site admins needed a filter which could prevent this.

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This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.

1. Upload the plugin to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory

What do you have against Comic Sans?

If you have to ask…

Any future upgrades planned?

Funny you should ask… If anyone’s interested, the obvious corollary to this is an option to moderate hostile comments by setting them in Comic Sans. I’ll add that in if there’s any interest.

0.1

Release 7/12/10.