Family Friendly
The family friendly plugin allows you to to filter your wordpress site to cater to different age groups. For example if your site contains some posts featuring adult humour or profanity, family friendly allows you to…
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Family Friendly shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. Was last updated 8 years ago, and scores 29/100 on our health check.
- Small user base (<10 active installs)
- Very few reviews so far
- No update in 7 years
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Daily downloads
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Rankings
Where Family Friendly stands todayWordPress.org search rankings
Live position in the plugin search, top 100| Keyword | Position |
|---|---|
| family | >100 |
| filter | >100 |
| SFW | #5 |
About Family Friendly
From the official readme · v1.03Description
The family friendly plugin allows you to to filter your wordpress site to cater to different age groups. For example if your site contains some posts featuring
adult humour or profanity, family friendly allows you to present a ‘pg’ or ‘u’ version to younger users of the site. It also allows users to view the site safely at work, or in a public environment.
Installation
It is recommended that you fully back up your site before attempting to add a new plugin.
Copy the plugin folder, named ‘family-friendly’ to the plugins folder of your WordPress installation, located at wp-content/plugins.
Next have a look in the settings section of your WordPress admin panel. You should see Family Friendly listed. Click this to adjust the words filtered by
family friendly at the ‘u’, ‘pg’ and ’18’ levels.
If a user selects the ‘u’ level, the plugin will filter posts using the words at the ‘u’, ‘pg’ and ’18’ levels. Selecting the ‘pg’ level will ignore ‘u’ level
words, but use words in the ‘pg’ and ’18’ levels. Selecting the ’18’ level uses just the words in the ’18’ level. These are effectively always banned.
Posts, post titles and comments are filtered.
Posts are filtered for normal users only. They are not filtered for admin use
and will all still be fully visible within the admin area.
You can choose which settings to make available to users via the widget.
You can also choose to hide the widget from users should you wish by changing
the appropriate setting.
To change the images used for the level settings, replace the images in the
family-friendly/img folder with others of your choice. Ideally these should
closely match the size and aspect ratio of the original images, or be resized
as needed.
Adding the Widget
Family friendly allows users to select filtering levels via a widget. To add the widget to your page, first look at the appearance section of the WordPress
admin panel. Select widgets from the options available. On the left half of the screen you should see Family Friendly listed among the available widgets. On the
right of the screen should be titles of the areas of the page which use widgets.
To add the Family Friendly widget, drag it from the left of the screen to the area on the right you wish to add it to. If there are multiple widgets in this
area, you can drag it up or down to fine tune its position relative to other widgets. After doing this, you should now be able to see the widget on your
main page (after refreshing).
Once the widget has been added, users can select the levels to filter the site according to their preference.
Changelog
1.03
- various prefixes lengthened to improve compatibility
- readme updated for wordpress.org compliance
1.02
- changed urls to use plugins_url function
- improved security for get requests
1.01
- Descriptions in files updated
1.0
- First working version
For developers
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FAQ
Family Friendly: quick answers
Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.
Live data from WordPress.org · checked Oct 11, 2026
Is Family Friendly free?
Yes. Family Friendly is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.
Is Family Friendly safe to use in 2026?
Family Friendly shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. Was last updated 8 years ago, and scores 29/100 on our health check.
How many websites use Family Friendly?
Family Friendly is active on <10 WordPress websites and has been downloaded 2,998 times since it launched in November 2018. It was downloaded 64 times in the last 30 days.
What PHP version does Family Friendly need?
Family Friendly requires PHP 5.6.12 or higher. Most hosts run PHP 8.x today, so it works on any modern WordPress hosting.
When was Family Friendly last updated?
The latest version, 1.03, was released on November 20, 2018 (8 years ago).
Who makes Family Friendly?
Family Friendly is developed and maintained by jamibaraki.
What are the best alternatives to Family Friendly?
The most popular alternatives to Family Friendly are RootsPersona (400+ installs), GedShow (200+ installs) and Genealogy (50+ installs).
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