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.
anna. Says:December 25th, 2005 at 5:50 pm
Brian, I get the by now much hated Internal Server Error. My error log says the following:
[Sun Dec 25 14:41:59 2005] [error] [client 85.141.146.147] Premature end of script headers: php-script, referer: http://www.teambio.org/wp-content/spell-plugin/spellchecker.html
I’m pretty sure I have aspell installed, it was one of my criteria for the webhost
Yes, so I can finally use this plugin.
Ideas?
Doug Says:December 21st, 2005 at 2:04 pm
I have the spell checker installed and it acts like it is working, but it misses obviously misspelled words. Can you give me any clues to why this might be happening.
MiCHA Says:December 21st, 2005 at 3:26 am
If you want to use spell checker with a language other than English, you may need to add “–encoding=utf=8″ to $aspell_opts in spellchecker.php. Otherwise some special non-latin chars may not be interpreted correctly.
TomW Says:December 17th, 2005 at 11:59 pm
This is a terrific plugin.
I can add words to the personal dictionary from the plugin options page, but when I use the Add button in the speller window it only appears to work. At the end I get a message about the # of words that it failed to add. I’m also not finding the add_failed.out file you mention.
Any thoughts on how to debug this?
JP Says:December 16th, 2005 at 2:23 pm
Getting this error when trying to use the spell-checker (wp 1.5.2):
Error: the file “…/aspell-word-list.txt” is not in the proper format.
Hu?
David Says:December 10th, 2005 at 4:57 pm
Is it possible to have a list of the bugs and the method to fix it ?
Tom Says:December 8th, 2005 at 4:28 pm
Changed “en_US” to “en” in Options, and all is well. Thanks for the quick response!
ColdForged Says:December 8th, 2005 at 1:15 pm
Please see this comment.
Tom Says:December 8th, 2005 at 1:00 pm
I get the same error as JJK when checking spelling. Thanks in advance for your help.
jjk Says:December 4th, 2005 at 10:13 pm
Now that I have managed to move past the issue of the personal dictionary being writeable, I get aspell errors. Specifically, I get the errors
Error executing
/usr/bin/aspell -a --lang=en_US --personal=/var/www/html/wp-content/spell-plugin/aspell.personal < /tmp/aspell_data_rjrCBo 2>&1Error (some garbage images) uage “enUS” is not known. This is probably becuase the file “/usr/share/aspell/enUS.dat” can not be opened for reading (another garbage image)
And yes, “becuase” is spelled like that in the error message. I am using aspell-0.50.5-6 on Fedora Core 4. Do you have any idea what’s happening?