TinyMCE Spellcheck

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1. ★★★★★ WPVoteUser

   11.3y 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

   11.5y 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

   12.1y 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

   12.1y ago

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

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5. ★★★★★ websupporter

   12.1y 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

   12.2y 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

   12.4y 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

   12.5y 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.

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

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• Webmaster Spelling Notifications 100+ installs · 3.9★ · 2 shared tags D
• Orphans 50K+ installs · 4.9★ · 1 shared tag A
• WProofreader spell & grammar check plugin for WordPress 4K+ installs · 3.8★ · 1 shared tag B
• Just Writing Statistics 1K+ installs · 4.2★ · 1 shared tag C
• F FD Footnotes Plugin 1K+ installs · 4.3★ · 1 shared tag D
• WPHindi – Type in Hindi in WordPress 1K+ installs · 4.1★ · 1 shared tag D

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TinyMCE Spellcheck: 2K+ active installs, 3.8★ (12 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/tinymce-spellcheck