Automattic recently bought a company called After the Deadline(Strange name for a company!) which provides a service with the same name. This service can be used on WordPress.com and it helps in contextual spelling and grammar checker. As blogosphere is cramming up with newbie bloggers who aren’t native English speakers makes reading their blogs a little bit of trouble. As it’s a golden rule not to make these 5 grammatical errors, it’s also a general rule of the thumb to use misused words which spoil the real meaning of what the blogger is trying to say. In order to increase the readability of a blog, it has to follow certain principles not to have spelling mistakes and grammatical errors which make the content hard to read and understand.
After The Deadline is a free plugin for WordPress.com and WordPress.org users. While Self hosted blog users must provide their API Key in order to use the plugin in their editor.
Lets have a look at this plugin in action at Matt Mullenweg’s blog post.
You need to get an API key to activate this plugin. For this, you need to register at After The Deadline website which you go from the plugin’s page in your WordPress self hosted blog admin dashboard. While WordPress.com API Key doesn’t work for this. I do not understand why Automattic has not enabled WordPress.com API Key to be working with After The Deadline plugin.
You can download and install this plugin on your own or use the ‘Add New’ feature in your Plugin section in the blog’s dashboard.
It was badly needed !
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