# Secret Text Plugin

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/secret-text-plugin/61615>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [4월 26, 2017, 2:58오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/secret-text-plugin/61615 "2017-04-26T02:58:43Z")\
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**Post date:** [4월 27, 2017, 5:48오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/secret-text-plugin/61615/7 "2017-04-27T17:48:04Z")

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Can a plugin extend the post model to include a ‘secret’ flag to indicate which posts need preprocessing? You’d need to also patch any updating to set the secret flag, but that doesn’t sound too awful.

edit: and how slow would it actually be? Is Ruby’s regex in Ruby or C?

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