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I've update NaughtyWordChars to work with both MT 3.3 and 3.2. For people out there with 3.3 NaughtyWordChars will also now clean out tag names.

I've also made a few tweaks that I think will make NWC act better under persistent perl environments.

Enjoy: NaughtyWordChars 0.6

You know how the EntryBody tag has that "words" attribute that trims the body content? And, you know how it also strips out all the html before it does it? Well, half of that behavior was pretty useful for us. Better Word Limit adds a global filter "formatted_words" which...

One of our editors found an enjoyable little bug yesterday. Closely related to an earlier update, it seems that MT generates the filename for an entry before it runs any pre-save plugins.

This becomes worrisome if you've got a pre-save plugin which alters an entry's title, and your archive...

There were some comments in this thread and over here that NaughtyWordChars was causing some problems with a few other BigPAPI plugins. Turns out, I had an error in the plugin which caused BigPAPI callbacks with version dependencies to fail. Anyways, it should be all set now. You...

I've added a couple features to my NaughtyWordChars plugin. It now handles comments as well as entries, and I've added some extra clean-up for entry titles (more on that below). You can download the lastest verison of the plugin here.

So, lots of HuffPost bloggers paste their posts titles...

NaughtyWordChars is a plugin to strip malformed characters out of posts pasted in from Microsoft Word documents. It operates via a post-save pre-save call back on MT::Entry, which cleans out the offending characters before they hit the DB. For older entries, there is a edit_entry param callback to clean up...