Church Web Werx can check spelling, grammar, and style using After the Deadline Proofreading technology.
Click 
in the Visual Editor toolbar to check your writing.
The proofreading feature checks spelling, misused words, grammar, and style. You can tell the type of error by its color.
- Misused words and spelling errors are red
- Grammar mistakes are green
- Style suggestions are blue
Click an error to see a menu with suggestions. Many errors have an Explain option that provides more information.
You may select Ignore suggestion to ignore a phrase once. Select Ignore always to have WordPress permanently ignore and unmark a phrase.
Proofreading Options
You can configure the proofreading feature by going to My Account -> Edit Profile.
From here you can edit the phrase ignore list and enable extra options in the proofreading feature. Make sure you click Update Profile at the bottom of the page to save your settings.
Grammar and Style Options
The proofreader applies many of its grammar rules by default. These extra options find patterns of poor writing style:
- Bias language may offend or alienate different groups of readers.
- Clichés are overused phrases with little reader impact.
- Complex phrases are words or phrases with simpler every-day alternatives.
- A double negative is one negative phrase followed by another. The negatives cancel each other out, making the meaning hard to understand.
- A hidden verb is a verb made into a noun. These often need extra verbs to make sense.
- Jargon phrases are foreign words and phrases that only make sense to certain people.
- Passive voice obscures or omits the sentence subject. Frequent use of passive voice makes your writing hard to understand.
- Phrases to avoid are wishy-washy or indecisive phrases.
- Redundant phrases can be shortened by removing an unneeded word.
Ignored Phrases
You may add a phrase to the ignore list by typing it into the text field and clicking Add. Click 
to remove a phrase from the ignore list. A phrase is one or more words and the ignore list is case-sensitive.
Additional Info
Can I add words to the dictionary?
No, but you can add phrases to an ignore list so they don’t show up as errors.
The writing checker flagged a word as misused when it was used correctly, what happened?
The proofreading feature looks for commonly confused words and then decides, using the surrounding context, if another word is a better fit. Sometimes it gets it wrong.
The proofreading feature missed an error I made, what happened?
The proofreading feature is not a replacement for carefully reading what you write. It is a safety net meant to capture common mistakes and bring them to your attention. Finding every error is not possible with today’s technology.