Title: Proofread Bot
Author: giorgio79
Published: <strong>November 16, 2011</strong>
Last modified: December 31, 2014

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Proofread Bot

 By [giorgio79](https://profiles.wordpress.org/giorgio79/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/proofread-bot.2.2.3.zip)

 * [Details](https://scn.wordpress.org/plugins/proofread-bot/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://scn.wordpress.org/plugins/proofread-bot/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://scn.wordpress.org/plugins/proofread-bot/#installation)
 * [Development](https://scn.wordpress.org/plugins/proofread-bot/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/proofread-bot/)

## Description

**Why Proofread Bot?**

 Good grammar and style gets more customers in business and better grades at school,
and now you can get automated help for perfecting your writing with just one click
with Proofread Bot. This tool utilizes cutting edge natural language processing 
to identify difficult grammatical and stylistic issues, and it also checks your 
content in Bing for online plagiarism. Take a look at

 *  a [a sample report](http://proofreadbot.com/).
 *  [Video on how to configure and use the WordPress plugin.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dwF85YIgBM).

**How to use it?**

 When you are on the “Add New” or “Edit Post” screens you will have a box with a
Proofread Bot button, and clicking it will pass your content to Proofread Bot for
analysis. In a few seconds you will receive a detailed report with all the issues
found, for a visual overview take a look at the screenshots.

**Make Money**

 You can participate in the Proofread Bot affiliate program through Clickbank if
you are interested in earning a side income by promoting the tool. By enabling Proofread
Bot buttons under your posts, you inform your visitor that you take grammar, style
and plagiarism seriously. In addition, if a visitor clicks through to proofreadbot.
com and purchases a package you earn 50% of every sale.

**FREE Proofreading**

 You have one free proofreading up to 600 words per day. If you need more please
[buy a package](http://proofreadbot.com/node/2) (1 check costs 1 cent!).

**Ideas Welcome**

 Suggestions and ideas are welcome, please post them in the forum here or at proofreadbot.
com

## Screenshots

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 * Proofread Bot integrated with the default Wordpress WYSIWYG editor, TinyMCE
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 * Compact overview of results
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 * Admin setting
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 * Proofread Bot button under posts on Post Edit pages
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 * Show the Proofread Bot button on your posts, so your visitors see you care about
   grammar and style

## Installation

 1. Upload the proofread_bot directory (including all files within) to the /wp-content/
    plugins/ directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

## Reviews

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### 󠀁[The Plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-plugin-4/)󠁿

 [yudi07](https://profiles.wordpress.org/yudisetiawan76/) September 3, 2016

I think this usefully plugin features, unfortunately author don’t update the plugin..

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## Contributors & Developers

“Proofread Bot” is open source software. The following people have contributed to
this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ giorgio79 ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/giorgio79/)

[Translate “Proofread Bot” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/proofread-bot)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/proofread-bot/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/proofread-bot/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/proofread-bot/) 
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/proofread-bot/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 2.2

WP 3.9 & TinyMCE 4 compatibility

#### 2.18

500 error bug fix

#### 2.17

CSRF issue fix

#### 2.15

fixing too large explain window, and validation errors are now in a dialog instead
of tinymce windowmanager

#### 2.15

New “explain”, switching to rules matchin, plus minor bug fixes

#### 2.14

500 error bug fix

#### 2.12

Added node language to proofread bot class

#### 2.11

Javascript regex bug fixes that sabotaged wysiwyg results

#### 2.10

Preparing for internationalization, multilingual Proofread Bot

#### 2.07

Added a proxy.php fix for corrupted / broken encoding

#### 2.06

Removed htmlentities function call when passing text to server

#### 2.05

Fixing Ajax XML whitespace bug

#### 2.04

Small Chrome js bug fix

#### 2.03

Fixing IE9 js incompatibility

#### 2.01

Fixing utf8 encoding bug with php file that causes sites to break. (Had to change
php file encodings to ANSI)

#### 2.0

Major upgrade, now integrated with the WordPress visual text editor giving you a
Microsoft Word like editing

#### 1.8

** Bug fix
 TinyMCE Advanced post detection added

#### 1.0

** Initial Release

## Meta

 *  Version **2.2.3**
 *  Last updated **11 years ago**
 *  Active installations **50+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.9 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.9.40**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/proofread-bot/)
 * Tags
 * [copy](https://scn.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/copy/)[copyscape](https://scn.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/copyscape/)
   [DMCA](https://scn.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/dmca/)[plagiarism](https://scn.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/plagiarism/)
   [protect](https://scn.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/protect/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://scn.wordpress.org/plugins/proofread-bot/advanced/)

## Ratings

 4 out of 5 stars.

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## Contributors

 *   [ giorgio79 ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/giorgio79/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/proofread-bot/)