Spelling Checker plugin for WordPress

Bear in mind, podz, that aspell is an actual executable on the server, not a PHP service of any kind. If you have shell access, just do an “aspell” and see what comes up :).

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh !
I hate doing this shell stuff as my pw’s are so long and complex, but doing that does indeed produce a lot of info.
I really am clueless at times ??

Too bad I don’t have shell access. I installed it and tried checking the spelling. All worked fine but nothing appears in the spell check area. I believe the script is working perfect but I just don’t have aspell on the server.

Anybody else install this only to have it stop working several days later? It was working just fine….

Define “stop working”. In the absence of any updates to your WordPress installation the only other thing that might chnage would be underlying PHP or MySQL versions.

So, west4me mentioned that the spell check are is empty. That is what is going on with me. Is that an “aspell” thing? If all seems to work but the spelling info is empty, is my server missing the aspell or pspell?

Check the FAQ. Two possibilities are an aspell path issue or a failure to create/write to the personal dictionary due to a path or permissions problem. Hope this helps.

Thanks for telling me about the FAQ. I didn’t know it was there. I got the path from the technical support folks (/usr/bin/aspell) but it still is showing a blank in the spell checker. What are the permissions that I need to use and where do I find the personal dictionary? I couldn’t find this info in the FAQ.

I’m using PHP version 4.3.10.

Your personal dictionary should be located somewhere that the web server has permission to write to. I can’t tell you where this is for your installation… perhaps you can create a directory under your home directory for it to use and chmod it to allow everyone write permission, then change the path in the spellConfig.php file to point there.

Hope this helps.

Hmm. I just changed the permission on the spell directory to read and write and I get a curious error. It says “usr/share/aspell/en_US.dat: The required field “name” is missing.” It seems to be trying to work, now.

Any thoughts?

You can try a different language setting in that same config file. Try simply “en” or maybe “english”. That also depends on your aspell installation.

I sure appreciate your help. I’m still getting an error with each attempt at a language def. The complete error (the same as before) reads: Error executing ‘/usr/bin/aspell -a –lang=en
–personal-/home/goswans/public_html/wp-content/plugins/spell/aspell
</tmp/aspell_data_Go6GY2 2>&1′
/usr/share/aspell/en_US.dat: The required field “name” is missing.

Does this mean anything to you, ColdForged?

BTW, I did find the personal dictionary and I changed the permission to read and write.

I forgot to mention removing the personal dictionary file between attempts at changing the language, though that may or may not help. I’m curious why it still complains about en_US.dat when you’re specifying an “en” language.

Well, I deleted the spell.personal file, and gave it another shot and it worked. Cool! Thanks for the assistance.