Excellent alternative to Grammarly
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I installed this on a site with over 13,000 posts spanning 14 years with five paid amateur writers. I knew what I needed and that the free version of this plugin would not be enough (3 posts a day, 1,800-3,000 words a day), so I used the 14-day trial period to check out the paid version. Very impressed.
No spelling and grammar checker is perfect, especially not in the context of professional sports content, but this hit the mark. I did buy a premium license. The team dictionaries feature, after some time setting them up (I use one for names, one for sports, and one for general terms), have been fantastic. Each writer can whitelist their own rules, but being able to maintain whitelists for the whole site is above and beyond any other. Definitely worth the premium license fee.
On top of that, the support has been extremely responsive, both in replies and resolutions. One issue was that it wouldn’t let me add a few names to a team dictionary. They’d just poof again and again. And one of the names was very common. I reached out and several days later it was fixed. The other issue was one in which the first link added to a post after a save had to be done twice; it would just disappear when applied forcing us to redo it. It was fine for subsequent links until the next page load. I reached out and it was fixed two days later.
I normally hate plugins in the repo with such restrictive limits on the free version. I’d ding this review a couple of stars for that, too, if the paid version and support weren’t so good. Again, context is always an issue for grammar checkers, and the NFL certainly has a lot of diversity in the names of its players, but this works better than Grammarly (free and paid versions).
The only two additional things I could ask for are 1) to be able to add words to team dictionaries from the editor, and 2) to be able to whitelist grammar rules for the team, not just individually. And since I’m not getting rid of this plugin any time soon, I look forward to seeing if those features are added.
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