Family Chat Guard

World of Warcraft lets players as young as 13 play on their own, and General chat doesn't always remember that. Family Chat Guard keeps chat clean for you and for them: it hides everything from players you block, and anyone who types something vile is blocked the moment they say it.

Made with families in mind

If you're a parent, install Family Chat Guard for your child. If you're a younger player, it keeps the worst of General and Trade off your screen. And if you'd simply rather not read it, it's for you too.

Features

• Block list with no limit. Blocked players' messages are hidden everywhere: Say, Yell, whispers, emotes, Trade, General and other channels, plus guild, party and raid chat. The game's own ignore list has a size limit; Family Chat Guard's doesn't.
• Blocked on the spot. Anyone who says a phrase from the phrase list has the message hidden and is blocked right away, so you never see the rest of what they say. It comes with a starter set of sexual, hateful and "kill yourself" phrases.
• Right-click to block. Right-click a player's name in chat, or their portrait, and pick Block with Family Chat Guard. Simple enough for any age.
• Hard to dodge. Matching ignores capital letters and punctuation, reads number-for-letter spellings (m0m = mom), joins letters split up with dots or dashes, and shortens stretched words (mooom = mom). Phrases match whole words only, so innocent words that merely contain a phrase are left alone.
• Easy to undo. If it ever blocks someone by mistake, click Unblock next to their name. Hover over a name to see what they said.
• Record of hidden messages. Keeps the words of the last 2,000 hidden messages, with channel and time but no names, so you can see what was kept from your screen and spot new phrases to add. You can turn it off or clear it.
• Add your own. Right-click a name, type /fcg block Name, or add names and phrases to the plain text files Names.lua and Phrases.lua in the addon folder, then /reload.
• Optional extras. Newly blocked players can also go on the game's ignore list, and Family Chat Guard can turn on the game's chat log for you.
• Options window and minimap button. Left-click the minimap button for the options and block list, right-click to turn hiding on or off, drag it to move it. There's also an entry in Options > AddOns.
• No other addons or libraries needed.

How to use

Install it and play. The starter phrase list works straight away. Type /fcg to open the options and your block list, and /fcg help for the chat commands.

Works on both games

Family Chat Guard runs on WoW Classic Era and WoW Forever: the CurseForge app picks the right file for your game. On WoW Forever, the game itself hides a few kinds of messages from addons; Family Chat Guard can't filter those, but it handles everything the game lets it see.

Disclaimer

Family Chat Guard is one of a few addons I came up with to make the game better for myself and my family. The idea and design are my own, and no other author's addon code or artwork is used. It hides chat on your screen only; it doesn't report anyone or change anything for other players.

Free and open source under the MIT license.