TinyMCE Spellcheck

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Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.

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2 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days. 4 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

Crossed into this band 8 months ago; the previous band took 16 months to cross, which places it about 52% of the way through.

1. ★★★★★ WPVoteUser

   11.5y ago

   You will find the settings in your USER Profile! (Not the first section, where I would seach for it…) I’m just curious: Does the plugin submit every post to an external server for spell checking or is this a completely local process?

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2. ★★★★★ Tom Dupuis

   11.6y ago

   Everything worked great but it kept adding ” ” throughout my article’s HTML which I had to go back and delete.

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3. ★★★★★ JSnyder27

   12.3y ago

   This screwed up all the code as well as other plugins. It screwed up spacing with a <span> tag listed every other word for nonexistent errors. AVOID THIS PLUGIN!

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4. ★★★★★ MCD Diseño Web

   12.3y ago

   It is the best plugin of its kind that I have found. Thank you very much! regards

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5. ★★★★★ websupporter

   12.3y ago

   Hi Matthew, thanks a lot for making this plugin available, because as you can see English is not my mother tongue and yet an need to write in it. So, thanks a lot for this plugin. I hope my blog will have less spelling errors from now on and less than this review 😉 [ link redacted, please do not post links in reviews ] So thanks again!

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6. ★★★★★ Bike

   12.4y ago

   Great to have a non-Jetpack spellchecker and the basic functionality works great. However since 3.9, the spellchecker leaves all kinds of < span class=”hiddenSpellError” > references in the HTML, the moment you switch it on; bloating the code, breaking shortcodes and embeds and much more. Therefore currently unusable unless you remove all of these Spans manually, which is a ton of work as all unknown words are marked as well.

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7. ★★★★★ Juan

   12.6y ago

   The plugin stopped working properly some time ago with important erros. It breaks all shortcodes, oEmbed and leave your content full os <span> elements. The problem was posted in the support forum but there is no reply from the author. See https://wordpress.org/support/topic/since-wp-v39-span-classes-are-added-in-the-code

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8. ★★★★★ zappyone

   12.7y ago

   Thanks for bringing this back!

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 1.3 Update security of some AJAX calls to check for nonce and referer Fix bug to remove s from highlighted words 1.3
2. — Version 1.2 Update plugin for compatibility with WordPress 3.9 1.2
3. — Version 1.1 Fix bug where a JS file was not loading properly 1.1
4. — Version 1.0 Plugin launch 1.0

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

Translated into 36 languages, 2 at 90% or more

Plus 12 more locales with partial translations.

Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.

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Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2026-03-17 3K+ → 2K+ down after 474 days in tier
2. 2024-11-28 4K+ → 3K+ down after 408 days in tier
3. 2023-10-17 5K+ → 4K+ down after 1 days in tier
4. 2023-10-16 4K+ → 5K+ up after 3 days in tier
5. 2023-10-13 5K+ → 4K+ down after 374 days in tier
6. 2022-10-04 6K+ → 5K+ down after 490 days in tier
7. 2021-06-01 7K+ → 6K+ down after 263 days in tier
8. 2020-09-11 8K+ → 7K+ down after 277 days in tier

Competes with

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TinyMCE Spellcheck: 2K+ active installs, 3.8★ (12 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-10-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/tinymce-spellcheck