Using WordPress’ Spellcheck function
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I have been posting on three WordPress blogs for a couple of months. This one http://rjohnhowe.wordpress.com/ is the one on which I’m posting most frequently.
Most of my posts on it are long reports (with lots of photos) of presentations on oriental rugs. I compose in WordPress because that seems to let me do things like size and insert images and check on how they look as I go along. But it also means that when I’m done I’m exposed to spelling and grammar errors.
I would love to use the spellcheck feature that seems available on WordPress, but can’t figure out how. Can some moderator provide me with a short step-by-step guide for using this WordPress resource? I currently have another long unpublished post waiting for such checking.
Thanks,
R. John Howe
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In the visual editor, incorrectly spelled words are underlined in red and you right-click on them and select the correct spelling.
You might have the visual editor turned off . . . turn it on under Dashboard>Users>Your Profile
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It works in strange ways…some marked words activate the spellcheck, some don’t. The tab shows a correct tick-off: English. But almost all the words in the English text are red underlined.
Like right now; in this reaction text I see nothing but red lines. Now don’t tell me that I typed only errors…I just changed a word in the preceeding line, and now all red markings have disappeared, except in this very line… I don’t get it.
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I use the spellcheck in Googles toolbar. It is always there – like right now. No matter where I write I can always hit the little icon and have a spell check – in several languages. I made a screenshot of the toolbar and my text here with a spelling error:
You can find the toolbar here and download it if you prefer:
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That’s great! Except that I can download what I want; I don’t get to see the Google version you show in your link. I’ve downloaded the Engish dictionary, it’s in my survey tab of downloads, but that’s all I got. Is there a special Google version I need?
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No. You left click somewhere on the toolbar and choose Toolbar Options. Then Tools. Check the Spell Check box. Done.
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Oh – there is a special Firefox version:
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use the toggle spellchecker. it is above on the mini sidebar when you are editing/writing.
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Danish? well, i write with english, and it works there. maybe it differs from languages…
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Sorry, I still don’t get it. I already used Google, and I both updated and downloaded the one in the link above three times and nothing happens. No ‘toggle spellchecker’ is appearing. Universalgeni shows an example of his Google in his reaction March 13 8:08, complete with Tab to choose a language from, and THAT’s the one I’d like to have. The link beneath just gives the standard Google download with additional tools; dictionairies, for instance. But no spell checker. So where is it?
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Well, you need to go on right clicking on the Google toolbar until you get this little blue spanner or wrench icon. You could also have that icon in the toolbar itself already:
Then you choose “Google Toolbar Options…” in the drop-down menu. That will open a new medium size window with a narrow sidebar to the left. Like this:
Click the “Tools” tab in that sidebar. Insert a check mark in front of the spell checker icon on the list.
Click “Save”.
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What you show is a toolbar in Internet Explorer…I’m using Firefox
There’s something not right, I found a list of all Google tools, but ‘spell checker’ is missing.I’ll contact a Technical Helpforum, thanks for the trouble Universalgeni.
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…Oh, how STUPID…
I do have that spell checker. I just send the Google bar into hiding, and forgot that I had done so….
And it works fine.*spank me! spank me!*
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-No it isn’t! It’s a TOTAL nightmare. I tried spellcheck on a few older posts. I saved the corrections but forgot to turn off the checker. Don’t let it happen to you! You’ll have to delete a zillion spellcheck-tags from the Code section of your textfield…and we’re talking about tags running on for 5, 6 lines. Horror.
Now with some posts I get the message
‘Document contains too many suspicious words. Only the first one hundred are marked.’But there isn’t anything marked. If I block a small portion of text, I get the same message. I block one line with six words: ‘too many suspicious words’, hey, come on!
What am I doing wrong? When the tool behaves in a normal way, it checks just great.
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You have to choose what language you want. I gave you a screenshot yesterday about that:
And there is no way that spell checker can write tags in your post. That is just not possible.
I have posted without unchecking the spell cheker a million times and it makes no difference.
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