Spell Check

February 19, 2005
7:16 am
Posted in: Announcements, Tech, WordPress

I tried this WordPress spell check plugin two months ago, and I couldn’t get it to work. Its integration was clunky, and it didn’t support adding words to the dictionary. Wow… it’s improved a lot.

The only problems I had were trivial… one was that I have to replace bloginfo('url') with bloginfo('wpurl') (silly mistake by the creator of the plugin), and the other was that it tried to use the “en_US” dictionary, which wasn’t present on my server, and I had to change the setting and tell it to use the “en” dictionary and to handle my personal dictionary within the plugin.

The great thing is that it works both on the backend (when I write posts) and on the frontend (when you write comments)! Now there is no excuse for misspellings in your comments.

Mark Jaquith

Hi. I’m Mark Jaquith (JAKE-with). I make WordPress, a free and open source publishing platform and I work as a freelance WordPress consultant. This is my personal blog. You can subscribe to my feed or follow me on Twitter and Google+.

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