Proofreading support for the HTML Editor
When we announced After the Deadline, the proofreading tool used on WordPress.com, many of you asked us to add proofreading to the HTML Editor.
The HTML Editor lets you edit the HTML in your posts and pages directly. It is also very lightweight.
We’ve been hard at work and now you can check your spelling, style, and grammar from the HTML Editor. Here is a screenshot:
The proofreader for the HTML Editor has the same features as the one for the Visual Editor.
Click 
to check your post for errors.
Click 
to resume editing your post.
You can learn more about the proofreading feature on our support page.
For self-hosted blogs, the After the Deadline WordPress.org plugin has this new feature as well.
November 3rd, 2009 at 8:26 pm
This is definitely a plus – for the blog reader as well as the blog writer. Progress!
November 3rd, 2009 at 8:28 pm
OK. Useful.
I like it.
November 3rd, 2009 at 8:29 pm
yeah!
I needed!
November 3rd, 2009 at 8:41 pm
Wooow, but when will you support German language?
November 3rd, 2009 at 8:48 pm
usability)))
November 3rd, 2009 at 8:48 pm
great!! excelent job! thanks
November 3rd, 2009 at 8:55 pm
Thanks, great support!
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:14 pm
much more helpful, thank you! =D
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:38 pm
Yes! I can finally get rid of my dictionary!
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:45 pm
Thanks for the HTML Proofreading, all would be good if I could find my API Key, it does not seem to be where it should be in my profile.
I love blogging, thanks you wordpress, once I can find my way around, everything will be fine, it is getting better, but cannot upgrade.
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:04 pm
If you’re blogging on WordPress.com then you don’t need an API key to use the proofreader, it’s built into your blog.
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:24 pm
Great feature! This is gonna make my life easy!! Thanks guys!!
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:31 pm
Another Cool upgrade, thanks guys
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:41 pm
The WordPress team does it again! Can’t wait to see what’s in store next!
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:55 pm
Great Job. i love it
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:33 pm
Oh, perfect! WordPress impresses me everyday with the continuous improvements. I used to just use the spell check on Opera, but this is much more convenient.
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:36 pm
Wow, It’s difficult to believe that the HTML’s advanced so much in these days…
Thanks for the hard work, nobody can stop you!
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:55 pm
This will be a boon to those who don’t use Firefox browsers.
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:58 pm
Superb. The writers thank you for saving us some keystrokes. Thanks.
November 4th, 2009 at 12:24 am
This is great. I’ll look like less of a dumb arse!
November 4th, 2009 at 1:12 am
Cool Beans! Thanks…this I understand.
November 4th, 2009 at 1:12 am
Yet another great feature! Thanks.
November 4th, 2009 at 1:28 am
I likes this change!
But in the screenshot, why is “four” in the first line an error?
November 4th, 2009 at 1:30 am
I understand that gramatically, it should be “for” but usually, spellcheckers don’t pick up on homophones.
November 4th, 2009 at 4:33 am
The After the Deadline proofreader picks up on homophones using a statistical language model. It’s not 100% but it catches a lot of things. http://www.afterthedeadline.com/features.slp I’m very proud of the feature
November 4th, 2009 at 2:25 am
Wow these tools are awe some . They are of age and badly needed in this day when there is no such thing as a misspelled word only my unique way of expressing myself.
This makes it possible to express yourself and allows me to read your thoughts as well
Wow What a concept!!!!!
November 4th, 2009 at 2:42 am
you guys rock it again! thanks heaps, WP team!
i <3 WP!
November 4th, 2009 at 5:16 am
They are very helpful tips… Thanks
November 4th, 2009 at 6:19 am
love this feature
November 4th, 2009 at 8:17 am
Looking great.
November 4th, 2009 at 11:13 am
Superb!
November 4th, 2009 at 11:52 am
usefull one.
November 4th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
Thank you so much guys
November 4th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
good job!
November 4th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
I like.
November 4th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Thanks a ton for this. I needed this.
November 4th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
this is the one feature which will help me, because i always use the HTML editor.
November 4th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
cool
November 4th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
just for english?
November 4th, 2009 at 11:17 pm
Just English for now. We’re working on expanding this but it’s not a small project.
November 4th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
Thanks for the useful info.
November 4th, 2009 at 6:16 pm
I am planning to use this feature in the future
November 4th, 2009 at 6:36 pm
This is a big plus!!
November 4th, 2009 at 10:08 pm
Thanks
November 4th, 2009 at 10:17 pm
one Giant leap
November 5th, 2009 at 3:46 am
I’m glad I saw this today. It will be very helpful. thanks!
November 5th, 2009 at 4:29 am
Great, thanks a ton
November 5th, 2009 at 5:55 am
I am so inspired by everybody’s input. It is excitiing to be part of the bunch, that will benefit from this.
I hope I can be of some help, too. THANK YOU.
November 5th, 2009 at 8:02 am
Excellent work there.
November 5th, 2009 at 8:48 am
Yeah!
November 5th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
Greattt
November 5th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
Can you add this to the P2 theme? ‘love the P2 posting options, dislike the lack of functionality for HTML editing options (other than by memory)
November 5th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
I’m not sure the grammar check is very good. i just did a little test with “i are going here.” and it said it was correct…
November 5th, 2009 at 8:40 pm
AtD doesn’t catch everything. There are three criteria for deciding whether a rule goes in:
1) Is it possible to make a rule for this item? Some errors can’t be described in such a way that AtD can catch them.
2) Does the rule have a lot of false positives? It’s important that a rule catches errors while leaving legitimate writing alone. This is harder than it looks sometimes.
3) Do people actually make the error the rule was designed to catch? This is an important test. I run the rule against a lot of writing with errors. If the rule finds and corrects the errors it was designed for–great. If not, then it’s kind of useless since it doesn’t do anyone any good. In this case it stays out.
A little more on the process is at: http://blog.afterthedeadline.com/2009/10/06/atd-updates-split-words-and-possessive-errors/
November 5th, 2009 at 4:45 pm
cool… yeah
November 5th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
Daddy like!
November 5th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
The good thing about this is that now I can understand my own blogs after I wrote them
November 5th, 2009 at 6:59 pm
sweet….
November 5th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
Super! Will be available for other languages than English?
November 5th, 2009 at 11:57 pm
I’ve used it for a couple of days now and it works splendid!
Very good for a little flea that does not have English as his first language but writes in English because he happens to liven in a football managers hair. The world is a complex place (but there’s not much to compare it with).
Thank you!
Paddy
November 6th, 2009 at 3:18 am
will u support proofread for another language?
November 6th, 2009 at 6:17 am
I feel its very nice.
I would like to know if there is any way to edit HTML in full window view because it is so small to edit and very difficult for typing
November 6th, 2009 at 10:46 am
You guys an gals rock!
November 6th, 2009 at 5:27 pm
Definitely needs to be checked out..
November 6th, 2009 at 10:16 pm
Great job guys..i like it
November 6th, 2009 at 11:50 pm
It works well, Thanks. But I’m still navigating through WordPress, It feels like I’m doing some thing wrong…Nonetheless, I’ll keep treking……
November 7th, 2009 at 3:11 pm
thanks super
November 7th, 2009 at 6:45 pm
Would be cool if the html editor obey my and commands. Many times I need more line breaks and I don’t get it.
November 7th, 2009 at 6:46 pm
Would be cool if the html editor obey my and commands. Many times I need more line breaks and I don’t get it.
November 7th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
Would be cool if the html editor obey my
andcommands. Many times I need more line breaks and I don’t get it.November 8th, 2009 at 1:08 am
For an organization that calls itself “WordPress” this is a great addition. How about syntax checks which would identify missing links, or symbols etc.
We still anxiously await a “google search” type of search engine (the current one is not up to WordPress world class standards) and support for the automatic creation of a “Table of Contents”
Moin Ansari
November 8th, 2009 at 7:39 am
Nice!
November 8th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
thank you
November 8th, 2009 at 10:30 pm
Good job! I’m glad you did it since I had the opportunity of having that from the beginning of my blog because I created mine a few days ago! Thanks, it works really well and I’m using it pretty much every time I write a Post in a new entry on my blog!
November 9th, 2009 at 1:14 am
Much obliged (and needed)!
November 9th, 2009 at 3:05 am
thx…
November 9th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
yeah,this suport i beatfull
November 9th, 2009 at 7:34 pm
awesome, specially when english isn’t your native language.
testing it in my texts @ http://hungrygoat.wordpress.com
November 9th, 2009 at 8:49 pm
Hello,
This new feature is totally awesome! Thanks so much WordPress!
~ Gabriela ~
November 10th, 2009 at 6:07 pm
Hey Cheers ever so much for this new feature , does it come with anti “sär – skrivning” for us swedes ?
November 10th, 2009 at 8:43 pm
Thanks, keep on the good work
November 10th, 2009 at 10:04 pm
thanks this saves a step for me
November 11th, 2009 at 4:36 am
I just got this and look forward to trying it out!
November 11th, 2009 at 7:59 am
i have to explore for more, this is exciting…
November 11th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
Great move
November 11th, 2009 at 5:39 pm
awesome
November 11th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
It looks like the new version of tinymce is causing a problem with my upgrade.
each time I try to upgrade to the new version i get this message.
Could not create directory: /home/webguide/public_html/wp-content/upgrade/wordpress-2.8.5/wordpress/wp-includes/js/tinymce/utils
Installation Failed
I’ve tried creating the folder tree and then trying to reinstall, but same problem. I’m getting no help fromthe forum, perhaps someone here can give me a clue.
November 12th, 2009 at 3:04 am
This is a great asset to the microcosm of illiterate blogger’s indcluding myself sometime’s !
Greatly appreciated always.
November 12th, 2009 at 10:20 pm
Great
I needed
November 13th, 2009 at 12:06 am
Just started blogging, and this makes things much easier.