Spelling Checker plugin for WordPress

@coldforged
Well I am a novice to php but I can think of a third solution (imho suiting all ;)) – can the plugin be made to use an own library and not to require any pre-installed components?

I seen a lot of people post “I get blank screen” I did too when I downloaded the zip and made and copy files and the filder it said to make. What fixed it was I downloaded the tar file and ran the tar command to install it. I guess it wroght over the zip type files. After that I did not get a blank page.

I went to the set up and got this error:

“FATAL: You forgot to make the personal dictionary directory writable.
Please read the install instructions and chmod this folder to provide write
privileges to the Apache task.”

To fix it I chmod 757 to
/var/www/html/wordpress/wp-content/spell-plugin

But now when I click on the spell check button a window pops up and says:

“Error executing ‘/usr/bin/aspell -a –lang=en_US –personal=/var/www/html/wordpress/wp-content/spell-plugin/aspell/personal < /tmp/aspell_data_bfStEe 2>@1’
Error: 8x@”

I running this on Linux Fedora core 3.

I been trying to fix this for about 3 hours. I don’t know what else to do. Can any one help?

I seen a lot of people post “I get blank screen” I did too when I downloaded the zip and made and copy files and the filder it said to make. What fixed it was I downloaded the tar file and ran the tar command to install it.

This probably means that you didn’t put the files in the correct hierarchy. The only difference between the ZIP file contents and the tarball is that the tarball contains the appropriate hierarchy implicitly, so untarring the tarball from the wp-content directory puts everything where it needs to be. The ZIP file can’t have the right directory structure because it is intended primarily for the use of the WordPress Plugin Manager, and that means everything must exist in the base of the ZIP file, not subdirectories.

Error executing

Try changing the language to “english” or “en” (don’t put the quotes).

I did change the language to English and en but still got the error. The error did say something a little differint with each way I put in what Aspell language.

-Raymond Day

I e-mailed a person I know that is good at Linux. He loged on my system. He said he would get the same error when in the command line. All he did to fix it was this:

cd /usr/share/aspell
ln -s en.dat en_US.dat

So that made a symbolic link from en_US.dat to en.dat , now it thinks en.dat is en_US.dat

I hope this helps others. Maybe a update to the Speller program to fix this.

I just edited and spell checked 3 days in mine. It works real good now. Thank you!

-Raymond Day

When I tried to install the hack it crashed my whole application! Anyway…now removed but want to figure out how to get this thing working!

Just an FYI, I was receiving this same error about “name field missing”, however, changing the Language field to “english” fixed it.

The trickiest part about this plugin — and the subsequent supporting of it — is that it relies on an external application that has so many versions and possible installation options as to be overwhelming. I’ve tried to do as many things as possible from within the plugin to automatically detect the settings that it should use, but it’s still a crap-shoot, especially where language is concerned.

This is a fabulous Plugin!! Thanks for making it.

I am getting an error now when I check spelling. This started happening after I upgraded to 1.5.2 – I also checked my permissions and everything is in order.

Here is the error:
https://www.elysiummons.com/Picture1.pdf

Any ideas?

piginzen, I had this happen to me recently, as well. In the Spell Checker options, make sure the language is set to “en” and not to “english” or “en_US”

That solved my problem.

ColdForged and Podz: Did you guys ever work out how this worked with pspell? My host uses the pspell php services not aspell executable. If podz got it to work did you ever work out how?