June 24, 2008

Firefox Spell Check Auto Save Publish

I have a regular routine I use before I hit the publish button.

• Preview and actually Read the post
• Edit it again
• Create the excerpt for the post
• Add the tags
• Check the category (is it the default or the one I want the post to be in)
• Check spelling with Firefox spell check
• Publish
• Look at the live post

WordPress Auto Save

A couple of weeks ago I completed this routine and when I looked at the live post there were my bold red and green words that had come up on the spell check in Firefox.

I don’t know if I forgot to turn off the spell check routine before I hit publish or if the auto save function kicked in while I was running the spell check and I hit publish. Whatever tripped it. I didn’t want my spell checking highlighted and on display for the entire world to see.

Red and Green Text Solution

The fix was easy:

• back to the editor
• spell check
• turn off spell check
• republish

Firefox put all back to normal and in a matter of seconds my red and green admissions to “I am a craptastic speller” were hidden once again. Actually, I can spell, I can’t type.

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