Title: WP-Spellcheck
Author: Ben
Published: <strong>May 27, 2009</strong>
Last modified: May 29, 2009

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It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# WP-Spellcheck

 By [Ben](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bforchhammer/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-spellcheck.1.0.zip)

 * [Details](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-spellcheck/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-spellcheck/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-spellcheck/#installation)
 * [Development](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-spellcheck/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-spellcheck/)

## Description

**TinyMCE SpellChecker API** – this plugin provides action/filter hooks to allow
easy customisation of the TinyMCE SpellChecker.

This plugin was created to solve the problem of not being able to use GoogleSpell
behind a firewall. For background information on the issue read the discussions 
on [trac ticket #9798](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/9798). _The ultimate
goal of this plugin is to be merged into WordPress Core._

You need this plugin if…

 * You want to write a plugin for the TinyMCE SpellChecker. This plugin will provide
   you with respective **hooks** that allow to control which SpellChecker Engine
   is used, adjust the configuration used for initialisation of the engine and manipulate
   spellchecking results (independent of engine).
 * You are behind a **firewall** and you’d like to use the **Google Spellchecker**.
   This plugin contains a customised version of GoogleSpell that uses the new Http
   Transportation methods added in WordPress 2.8 which include **Proxy Support**
   for all external requests.

This plugin also contains a simple sub-plugin called “WP-SpellCheck Exceptions” 
which allows you to add custom words to the spellchecking dictionary. Note that 
this plugin is more a proof of concept than a complete/full-fleged solution. (It
does **not** have any kind of visual administration; it only adds “WordPress” as
an exception at the moment).

## Installation

Extract the zip file and just drop the contents in the wp-content/plugins/ directory
of your WordPress installation and then activate the Plugin from Plugins page.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“WP-Spellcheck” is open source software. The following people have contributed to
this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Ben ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bforchhammer/)

[Translate “WP-Spellcheck” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wp-spellcheck)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-spellcheck/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/wp-spellcheck/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wp-spellcheck/) 
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wp-spellcheck/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0**
 *  Last updated **17 years ago**
 *  Active installations **60+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.8 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **2.8**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-spellcheck/)
 * Tags
 * [proxy](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/proxy/)[spellcheck](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/spellcheck/)
   [tinyMCE](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/tinymce/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-spellcheck/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Ben ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bforchhammer/)

## Support

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