WordPress Plugins: Spelling Checker

What is WordPress Spelling Checker?

The Spelling Checker plugin for WordPress provides a built-in facility for spelling checks on posts from within the administration pages as well as spelling checks on comments via simple calls added to your templates. It requires no changes to the WordPress code, you merely drop it into the plugins folder and enable it in the interface.

How to install:

First of all you will need to download plugin. The spell-plugin.zip file can be downloaded from here. As soon as you have the file you should extract (unzip) it on your local computer.

To install a plugin you generally just need to upload the plugin file into your wp-content/plugins directory. Once a plugin is uploaded, you may activate it from your WordPress admin area.

Plugin upload process:

• Copy the "spell-plugin.php" file into your "wp-content/plugins" directory. If you are not sure how to do this, we kindly recommend you to refer to our FTP tutorial where you will find step by step instructions how to upload a file from your local drive to your web hosting account.
• Create a new directory in your "wp-content" directory called "spell-plugin". Make sure that the permissions of this directory are 755. To find out how to do this, please, take a look at the FTP -> Change permissions tutorial.
• Copy the remaining files (except for the "spell-plugin.php" file, which we have already set in the "wp-content/plugins" directory) into this new "spell-plugin" directory.

Plugin activation:

• When the plugin is uploaded under your plugins directory you should access your administrative area of your WordPress at: http://yourdomainname.com/wp-admin.php. Being there please, click on the Plugins section from the top menu.



• Click on the "Activate" button on the left. This will activate the plugin that you have already uploaded.

Once activated, you MUST VISIT the plugin options page at least once to enable the functionality. The plugin will NOT function and no "Check Spelling" button will appear, before that. Simply visit this page:

http://yourdomainname.com/wp-content/plugins/spell-plugin.php?speller_setup

How to use WordPress Spelling Checker?

On the "Write Post" page there should be a new button called "Check Spelling". Click it. You will get a new window that performs the spelling check. Note that you must have Javascript enabled for this to work. You must also have the "aspell" executable on your hosting machine (SiteGround.com servers have this installed) since it is required by the spell checking functionality.

Well done! You have successfully installed the Spelling checker plugin for WP!