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It’s a well known fact that my spelling sometimes leaves something to be desired, but in the world of modern computers, this isn’t actually a problem. However, you need a spell checker that works. Wordpress uses tinyMCE as its editor, which includes a spell check button, so spelling on the blog shouldn’t be a problem: but it is.

For apparantly no reason at all, the spell check module of tinyMCE fails time, and time again, but returns the spelling errors in the error message. After some googling, I came across http://ruxable.com/2009/01/wordpress-spellcheck-ssl-error/ and as a result http://kennyocracy.com/2008/10/02/solution-to-tinymce-fatal-error-in-googlespell/ which indicated what was wrong. The result is really quite simple. A matter of making sure that CURL is installed for PHP. A useful little fix for an annoying problem!