Automattic Acquired spelling plug-in maker After The Deadline

Automattic acquired spelling checker plug-in maker After the Deadline. After the Deadline’s spelling checker plug-in offers one of the most powerful spelling checking technologies. Automattic would bring spelling checking technology on WordPress hosted blogs.

Now, after a couple of months of rewriting the plug-in and adapting it to WordPress.com’s infrastructure, the technology is already enabled for all 7.5 million English blogs on the hosting platform. The plug-in checks for spelling, grammar and style errors and offers suggestions and explanations on any of them. What sets it apart, though, is that its corrections are on par with, if not better than, those on Microsoft Word.

As the video above shows, you can enable and customize the way After the Deadline analyzes your posts by adjusting the new Proofreading settings in your profile, and then use the new feature by clicking on the icon in the Visual Editor toolbar that has ABC and a green checkmark on it. After the Deadline will analyze your post as you write it and highlight potential errors with an underline (red for spelling, green for grammar, blue for style), similar to grammar and spell checkers in word processing software. Clicking on a highlighted word or phrase will reveal the suggested correction, tell you why it’s suspected to be an error, and allow you to accept or ignore it.

This feature is English-only for now (give us a little time) and available for WordPress.org as a plugin