Automattic, the company behind Wordpress, took another big leap in improving its award-winning blogging software when it acquired the After the Deadline, a style checking technology created by designed and created by Raphael Mudge.

In his writing or the Wordpress blog, Matt Mullenweg shares his first encounter with the system and how he was “blown away” by its ability to edit his writing in real time. “it was so much better than other checkers I’d used, and it was by one guy building this thing that solves a problem other folks have teams of PhDs trying to solve,” he said.

They ended up striking a deal for Automattic to buy the entire company. Raphael, for his part, also tells his story on how he came up with his brilliant work and how he and Matt finally struck the deal.

As a wordpress plugin, AtD sits on top of the writing box together with the standard editing buttons. When pressed, it searches for errors and underlines the word for spelling error(red), grammar suggestion(green) and style suggestion(blue). Then you click on the word to see a drop down of suggestions for you to choose.

AtD is an open source software that is also available for free download from its official site. It is also available for commercial deployment.

AtD continues to evolve as the men behind it improves on its already fantastic performance. But it is now available for download as a Wordpress plugin.


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