Spell Checker Not Working in WP2.1

  • I just installed WP 2.1 and the long awaited spell checker is refusing to work. Instead when I write something and go to spell check it, I get this…

    “could not execute AJAX call, server didn’t return valid a XML”

    Worse yet, Firefox’s inline spell checker only works in code view and not in visual. Can anybody help me with this? Even if I can’t get the WP spell checker to work, I would at least like to get it to recognize the Firefox one.

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  • My host asked for this:

    “Hmm… could you paste the requirements of that AJAX Spell Checker? Because most likely the server has everything, just need to change the settings a bit.”

    So, he thinks it’s server issues and not wordpress.. I think this is an old topic anyway hope someone can help ??

    I finally resolved this problem on my system running Windows Server 2003 with IIS. I installed WordPress v2.2 and ran into the same AJAX error. It ends up that the spell checker config.php file was configured to only use Google’s spell check web service. However it requires the use of SSL which my PHP was not configured for.

    Long story short I modified the config.php file and had to hack the TinyPspellshell.class.php file but was able to get everything working (although I had to install a copy of aspell.exe).

    I posted details on how I fixed this:
    https://www.roth.net/blog/index.php/2007/06/25/wordpress-v22-spell-checking-problem/

    I hope this helps someone.
    Cheers!

    I am running 2.3.1 and I saw the same error – I fixed it by modifying the config.php in
    /wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/spellchecker

    as follows:

    Removing the // comments from this line
    require_once(“classes/TinyPspellShell.class.php”);

    and adding comments to this line
    // require_once(“classes/TinyGoogleSpell.class.php”);

    Here is a fix.
    Just download the file and replace it.
    https://df.spllogics.com/wordpress-spellcheck-fix

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