Opened 5 years ago
Last modified 25 hours ago
#7810 new enhancement
TinyMCE Spell check doesn't recognise 'WordPress'
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | Future Release |
| Component: | TinyMCE | Version: | |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | has-patch-upstream |
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Description (last modified by SergeyBiryukov)
I realise that its not WordPress itself which is responsible for the Spell Checking, However, I feel that if WordPress includes a spellcheck functionality, It would be good for it to actually recognise "WordPress" instead of "Word-Press" or "Word Press" (It even goes on to suggest "WarDress" and "Depress"
Does anyone have a contact (Or know who to contact) in order to get "WordPress into the dictionary used, Or maybe how to ignore the WordPress corrections on the result?
Change History (17)
The default in the spell checker is to use Google
Then chase up Google! They owe a lot of their indexed content to WP Blogs :P
I guess putting a ticket upstream for a "Custom Dictionary" ability for the plugin could be an idea as well.
I knew it wouldnt be a simple fix, but felt it at least needs to be made a note of :)
see also #9798
comment:6
bforchhammer — 4 years ago
- Keywords needs-testing added
I've added a respective patch to #9798 (Attachment 3).
- Milestone changed from Future Release to 2.8.1
- Keywords has-patch added
comment:9
bforchhammer — 4 years ago
- Keywords needs-patch added; has-patch needs-testing removed
- Milestone changed from 2.8.1 to Future Release
- Type changed from defect (bug) to enhancement
punting to future then
comment:11
solarissmoke — 2 years ago
Related #16285. It's very difficult to do this in TinyMCE.
comment:12
dd32 — 2 years ago
2 years on, perhaps we should just get GoogleSpell to recognise 'WordPress' instead of handling it our end..
comment:13
ocean90 — 12 months ago
Duplicate: #20820
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ericmann — 6 months ago
I've taken the time to patch this in TinyMCE upstream. Essentially, I've added a configurable option with a list of words to be excluded from the spell check. I've patched this for the core spellchecker plugin and submitted a pull request upstream:
https://github.com/tinymce/tinymce_spellchecker_php/pull/8
Whether or not it's adopted by the parent project is entirely up to them. Considering the spellchecker plugin hasn't been updated in over a year (last commit was 11/5/2011), maybe we should consider patching WP's version and just moving forward?
comment:15
ericmann — 6 months ago
- Keywords has-patch-upstream added; needs-patch removed
comment:16
johnbillion — 5 months ago
#23097 was marked as a duplicate.
comment:17
SergeyBiryukov — 25 hours ago
- Description modified (diff)
- Severity changed from trivial to normal
- Summary changed from TinyMCE Spell check doesnt reconise 'WordPress' to TinyMCE Spell check doesn't recognise 'WordPress'

Unfortunately this isn't as easy as adding a word to it. The default in the spell checker is to use Google, but it can also use pspell if installed on the server. Can probably try to hard-code "WordPress" in the js part, so it skips over it.