Proofreading support for the HTML Editor
November 3, 2009
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.
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This is definitely a plus – for the blog reader as well as the blog writer. Progress!
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OK. Useful.
I like it.
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yeah!
I needed!
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Wooow, but when will you support German language?
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usability)))
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great!! excelent job! thanks
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Thanks, great support! 😉
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much more helpful, thank you! =D
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Yes! I can finally get rid of my dictionary!
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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.
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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.
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Great feature! This is gonna make my life easy!! Thanks guys!!
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Another Cool upgrade, thanks guys
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The WordPress team does it again! Can’t wait to see what’s in store next!
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Great Job. i love it 🙂
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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.
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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! 😀
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This will be a boon to those who don’t use Firefox browsers.
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Superb. The writers thank you for saving us some keystrokes. Thanks.
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This is great. I’ll look like less of a dumb arse!
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Cool Beans! Thanks…this I understand.
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Yet another great feature! Thanks. 🙂
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I likes this change!
But in the screenshot, why is “four” in the first line an error?
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I understand that gramatically, it should be “for” but usually, spellcheckers don’t pick up on homophones.
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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 🙂
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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!!!!!
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you guys rock it again! thanks heaps, WP team! 😀
i ❤ WP!
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They are very helpful tips… Thanks
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love this feature
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Looking great.
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Superb!
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usefull one.
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Thank you so much guys 🙂
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good job!
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I like.
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Thanks a ton for this. I needed this.
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this is the one feature which will help me, because i always use the HTML editor.
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cool
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just for english?
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Just English for now. We’re working on expanding this but it’s not a small project.
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Thanks for the useful info.
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I am planning to use this feature in the future
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This is a big plus!!
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Thanks
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one Giant leap
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I’m glad I saw this today. It will be very helpful. thanks!
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Great, thanks a ton 🙂
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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.
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Excellent work there.
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Yeah!
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Greattt
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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)
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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…
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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/
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cool… yeah 😉
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Daddy like!
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The good thing about this is that now I can understand my own blogs after I wrote them
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sweet….
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Super! Will be available for other languages than English?
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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
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will u support proofread for another language?
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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
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You guys an gals rock!
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Definitely needs to be checked out..
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Great job guys..i like it
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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……
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thanks super
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Would be cool if the html editor obey my and commands. Many times I need more line breaks and I don’t get it.
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Would be cool if the html editor obey my and commands. Many times I need more line breaks and I don’t get it.
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Would be cool if the html editor obey my
andcommands. Many times I need more line breaks and I don’t get it.LikeLike
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
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Nice!
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thank you 😀
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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!
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Much obliged (and needed)!
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thx…
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yeah,this suport i beatfull
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awesome, specially when english isn’t your native language.
testing it in my texts @ http://hungrygoat.wordpress.com
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Hello,
This new feature is totally awesome! Thanks so much WordPress!
~ Gabriela ~
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Hey Cheers ever so much for this new feature , does it come with anti “sär – skrivning” for us swedes ?
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Thanks, keep on the good work
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thanks this saves a step for me
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I just got this and look forward to trying it out!
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i have to explore for more, this is exciting…
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Great move
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awesome
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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.
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This is a great asset to the microcosm of illiterate blogger’s indcluding myself sometime’s !
Greatly appreciated always.
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Great 🙂
I needed
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Just started blogging, and this makes things much easier.
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