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 11th, 2004 at 8:15 am
Doh! I assume you have a transparent one, eh? Never thought of that.
Sorin Sbarnea Says:December 11th, 2004 at 7:41 am
It doesnÅ£t seamns to work with HtmlArea plugin. I don’t see spell buttons after activation
Burningbird Says:December 11th, 2004 at 1:58 am
Spell Check your Comments
Cold Forged did a very nice encapsulation of spell checking as a plug-in for Wordpress. I grabbed the code and incorporated it as a new option in my comments’ pages so you can spell check your comments–both the live comment, and the saved comment in …
AdamStac Says:December 11th, 2004 at 12:44 am
Hey, my gravatar’s messed up here…
AdamStac Says:December 11th, 2004 at 12:43 am
Hmmm…I got this to work…no problems! VERY cool plugin I might add!
A big thanks from me…
CarLBanks Says:December 10th, 2004 at 10:22 pm
Aspell seems to be installed since it’s working.
ColdForged Says:December 10th, 2004 at 5:25 pm
Open up a terminal window to your web host. Type “which aspell”. It should respond with something like “/usr/bin/aspell”. It may say “/usr/local/bin/aspell”. It may say something else. Whatever it says before the “aspell” is the path. So, edit your wp-content/plugins/spell/spellchecker.php file and find the line that looks like this:
$aspell_path = '/usr/bin/';and make sure that that path matches your host’s path.
CarLBanks Says:December 10th, 2004 at 4:53 pm
Also what is the aspell_path?
CarLBanks Says:December 10th, 2004 at 3:50 pm
The zip file link can’t be found.
ColdForged Says:December 10th, 2004 at 3:07 pm
Thor, the personal dictionary support is what’s killing you there, so I may have to back that out. I’m trying to come up with a more generic solution. In the meantime, anyone having similar issues with the personal dictionary can back it out by editing the “spell/spellchecker.php” file and changing $aspell_opts to the following:
$aspell_opts = "-a –lang=$lang";I’ve since determined that ck’s problem is an overall incompatability with servers that run with PHP safemode on. I can get past half of it, but the actual execution of the aspell executable seems impossible right now. If I come up with a solution, I’ll advertise it. Until then, this plugin simply can’t support safemode PHP environments. Sorry.