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.
mariuss' weblog Says:December 9th, 2004 at 1:11 pm
Spell Checker for WordPress
Quite a few WordPress blogs mentioned today that there is a new spell checker plugin for WordPress: Spelling Checker. It is still in alpha and works only with WordPress 1.3 (which is also still in alpha).
This plugin is based on Speller Pages, a ser…
Thor Says:December 9th, 2004 at 12:34 pm
I put the updated plugin up, but it made no difference. As requested, I email the source file. Also, I tried updating my WordPress from the newest CVS; it made no difference.
Ron Says:December 9th, 2004 at 12:28 pm
I tried the updated plug in and it seemed to be working, but then I got:
ColdForged Says:December 9th, 2004 at 11:47 am
Ron and Thor, could you try the updated version listed here? Perhaps these adjustments will help you both. I have since tried it on a subdirectory 1.2 WP installation without difficulty, so I’m curious about what’s going on for you. We’ll get to the bottom of it somehow.
ColdForged Says:December 9th, 2004 at 11:44 am
No, basically if the plugin is installed in your “wp-content/plugins” directory and Activated in the plugins page, there shouldn’t be any way that it won’t appear on your “Write Post” page. I have a 1.3a5 as well as a 1.2 installation now, and it appears on both.
Ron Says:December 9th, 2004 at 11:42 am
The HTML portion of the bottom half shows up fine; however, there is no spelling suggestion from the post. (I had intentionally spelled some words wrong to test the plug-in.) I have gone through and corrected all of the paths that I found. I have also tried this in several browsers, to include Internet Explorer, Fire Fox and Netscape.
P.S. I am using Word Press 1.2.1.
Thor Says:December 9th, 2004 at 11:08 am
Coldforged: Viewing the page source for the compose screen, the word “spell” is not found, and the button is missing in action. Does the path have anything to do with the button’s appearing? I’ve tried using the absolute path with it making no difference for me.
ck: Unfortunately, the button does not appear either way.
ck Says:December 9th, 2004 at 10:56 am
Thor: My spell check button appears where it should in advanced controls, but not so much in the standard editing page. But that’s been addressed already.
ColdForged Says:December 9th, 2004 at 10:23 am
Check the bottom of the screen, does it appear there? If so, that’s a known issue that will be addressed today. If not, can you view the page source and look for the word “spell” in there somewhere and tell me what you see?
Thor Says:December 9th, 2004 at 10:22 am
I’m sure I’ve missed something silly, but I’ve installed the plugin (several times now), and although it appears to activated, no spell check button appears on the “write post” screen. I have tried several different path entries to the plugin files in each of the spell-plugin.php, spellchecker.php and spellChecker.js files. I also tried settting the full path to the aspell application.
I am running WordPress 1.3 alpha 5.
Help?