Comments on: WordPress Spell Check: Does This Thing Work At All?

By: splloigcs

splloigcs — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:46:43 +0000

Try this
http://df.spllogics.com/wordpress-spellcheck-fix

By: The Personal Blog of Jason Dunn » Blog Archive » Clawing My Way Back from Spell-Check Hell

Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:01:25 +0000

[...] “Humility is the beginning of wisdom” or something like that. At any rate, between the spell checker not working in WordPress 2.1 (and 2.1.1 for that matter) and the Firefox spell checker not working in the WordPress posting [...]

By: Jason Dunn

Jason Dunn — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 19:55:49 +0000

Good point about Live Writer - I have it installed but I keep forgetting to use it. I really have to get into the habit!

By: ale_ers

ale_ers — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 19:49:42 +0000

All I can say, is thank microsoft for Live Writer. I can’t spell worth a darn.

By: Filip Norrgård

Filip Norrgård — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 19:32:47 +0000

Huh, I’m getting “Could not execute AJAX call, server didn’t return valid a XML.” as an error message all the time when spell checking after in both Opera and Firefox. There’s something strange going on here…

(Yes, I’m also running it on a Linux server, it is a bit trickier to get it running on a Windows server but not impossible.)

By: Jason Dunn

Jason Dunn — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 16:50:35 +0000

I use a Linux server, but I find it hard to believe there are extra, outside components that need to be added to WordPress before the dictionary will work…that would be incredibly silly of them. But that sure would explain a few things.

By: Kacey Green

Kacey Green — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 16:43:14 +0000

On my software the spell check won’t work until the server has the dictionary installed. Maybe WP is similar, do you use a Linux server? If Windows, I don’t know.