My biggest weakness in writing copy online is my grammar. Any of you who read my blog can vouch for this. It’s something i’m constantly working on to get better at. But this plugin for WordPress called ‘After the Deadline’ is helping me also. After the Deadline is a plugin that was purchased by the Automatic team (founders of WordPress) and is part of every Wordpress.com hosted blog. I recently downloaded the plugin and installed it this blog here and it is working wonders for me!

Here are a couple screenshots I took yesterday while writing my last blog post. You can see the various grammar and spelling errors that After the Deadline picked up while I was writing. Notice the underlined items.

When you right-click on the underlined text you get a drop down with options, just like when you are spell checking in a word processor.

After The Deadline has been licensed Open Source by the Automatic team. It’s under the popular GPL license which is not much of a surprise, given that WordPress is under the GPL. The significance of this plugin is great. You could actually outsource someone to write for you overseas, and have some simple grammar errors fixed in just a few clicks. The days of hateful comments on how bad your grammar sucks are over!

You can download the plugin here and see a demonstration of it here.