WordPress Spellcheck Tip
Posted on 12. Oct, 2008 by Julius.
Writing articles without typos is important these days, at least in the blogging world. Some people use Microsoft Office or OpenOffice.org to write and spell check their articles. People usually feel more comfortable using these applications because they were made for writing posts.
Other people use the built-in WordPress spell checker to make sure there are no typing errors. When using the spell checker included in WordPress you have to be aware of one problem though. I actually noticed this when I was using WordPress myself.
WordPress Spellcheck Problem
As you might notice in the picture, there are several typos in the text shown, especially in the last few words (if you can call them words). WordPress marks typing errors by underlining them with a red dashed line. However in this case the only word underlined is “Spellcheck” even though there are a lot more typing mistakes. This only happens if you are in “Visual mode”.
If you switch to “HTML mode” then every single typo is shown.
I actually do not know why this happens. It seems to be a bug. I think you can also see the typos in visual mode when you switch a few times between HTML and Visual mode.
-UPDATE-: One really important thing to do when writing articles in the editor included in WordPress is to spell check your headlines. For some reason WordPress does not perform a spell check there.
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