This is a modified version of script provided by Orphus to report typos on your site. Giving your readers an ability to report mistakes without having to send emails, leave comments, creating pull requests on GitHub, etc. is awesome. Everybody should have this on your site, including you.
Don't forget to replace my email and nonMistakes in the script with yours!
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Register on Orphus. Don't download any GIFs or the script they give you, just register there.
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Download the script from this repo and put it on your site. VERY IMPORTANT: you have to add it before
</body>, not into<head>, or else it won't work. You also need the closing</script>tag.<script type="text/javascript" src="/orphus.js"></script>
Don't forget to replace your email in the beginning of the script (
var sendTo = ...) with the one you've used to register. Also, changenonMistakesor assign""to it if you don't want to warn your users about any common “mistakes” you don't consider as such. -
Tell your readers that they can select text and press Ctrl+Enter to report mistakes! Don't forget to remind them occasionally in the beginnings of long articles and so on, because people tend to ignore banners they see on every page of a site for whatever reason.
This script is a modification of the “official” one. It has:
- nicer design (I think)
- “non-mistakes” functionality
- cutting down text blocks instead of showing a “selected text is too big” message
reportSelectedfunction which lets you call the script manually (this can be used to make a “report a mistake” button)