IMPORTANT NOTE FOR WORDPRESS 2.0 USERS
This plugin doesn’t play well in WordPress 2.0. I’m well aware of this. Some day I may update it but it is nowhere near the top of my priority list. Support questions for 2.0 installations will not make it out of moderation.
Latest version is 1.18, released 06/23/05.
I’ve been looking for a spelling checker plug-in for WordPress for a while. Didn’t find anything to my liking, so I figured I’d create one myself. The fruits of those labors are now here!
The Spelling Checker plugin for WordPress
With this plugin a new button appears alongside the rest to pop-up a spelling checker derived from the Speller Pages SourceForge project. No more typos!
This is a 1.18 release and it has been tested on WordPress 1.5.1.2. Please direct any questions or problems to me in this post.
ColdForged Says:December 9th, 2004 at 9:45 am
I’ll investigate, thanks for the detailed information. Looks like I’ll need to install a test 1.2 installation
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Ron, you running 1.2, too?
ck Says:December 9th, 2004 at 9:16 am
I should also probably add that I am running WP 1.2
ck Says:December 9th, 2004 at 9:14 am
I installed it as instructed and Word Press is in my root so I didn’t really have to alter anything. However, when I click on the “check spelling button” the spell checker interface pops up but the top frame after checking for errors always returns a blank page, even when misspelt words were in the post. This happens in both latest Netscape and IE and IE displays an error message:
Line: 44
Char: 1
Error: Object expected
URL: http://www.jewlicious.com/wp-content/plugins/spell/spellchecker.php
Any suggestions?
ColdForged Says:December 9th, 2004 at 8:25 am
They’re looking at that as a future feature of the base Speller Pages project. If they get that in there — or I get bored and feel like contributing — we’ll get it here
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Exactly what I was looking for… I knew I was overlooking something simple. Thanks for the nudge.
So it does! Along with the “eval() Content” from RunPHP. Guess they fooled both of us. I have Advanced Controls as the default so didn’t notice it. Thanks for the heads up, I’ll fix it today.
ColdForged Says:December 9th, 2004 at 8:22 am
Odd. Anyone else seeing Ron’s problem? Ron, you say the bottom half displays fine… do any spelling suggestions from the actual post show up?
Mark J Says:December 9th, 2004 at 7:07 am
Also, on the regular Write screen, the Check Spelling button is in the bottom-left corner of the browser (way at the bottom). It appears correctly only on advanced edit screen.
Mark J Says:December 9th, 2004 at 7:04 am
Instead of requiring people to manually set the URI to Wordpress, why not just do it for them using
<?php bloginfo('home'); ?>?
Brendan B Says:December 9th, 2004 at 5:25 am
Hrm..
I know this may not be possible, [insert long shot here], but is there any way of being able to “add” words from the spell checker popup back into aspell?
Ron Says:December 9th, 2004 at 4:47 am
The spellChecker.js points in the right directory. The top half of the screen will begin with “Spell check in progress…” and then go to the front page of my web log. The bottom half seems like it is displaying properly.
Richard@Home Says:December 9th, 2004 at 4:28 am
Have you checked out SpellBound?http://spellbound.sourceforge.net/
It’s a Firefox spell checker plug-in and works in any input or textarea.