Search for Firefox and IE: a plugin to integrate in the browser search function of your blog
Both Firefox and Internet Explorer allow you to search using different search providers that can be added or removed at the discretion of the user.
Potentially any site that delivers search functionality can easily become a search provider to integrate directly into the browser, provided that implements OpenSearch standard.
In summary, the OpenSearch standard requires [...]
Global Translator 0.7 released
I've just release a new major release of Global Translator!
(The previous 0.6.3 .* branch Has Been Suppressed)
Here's the changelog:
- Added two new translation engines: FreeTranslation and Promt Online Translation
- Added USER-AGENT filter in order to Prevent unuseless connections to the Translation Services
- Added support for Default Permalink Structure (ie: "www.site.com/?p=111)
- Added widgetization: Global Translator is [...]
Global Translator: I'm working on a new release
A new release is coming soon. I'm receiving a lot of comments, questions, suggestions about my plugin, But It's hard to publish and manage all of them. So please be patient and please wait just for a Few Days.
0.6.3.beta2 Global Translator: A new translation engine!
The beta2 release of the new Global Translator I added the new translation engine Promt Online Translator does not seem to suffer from the problems encountered recently by banning Google and Babelfish. It should be also solved the problem reported by some users of this error "Call to undefined function sem_get () in wp-content/plugins/global-translator/header.php online [...]
Global Translator 0.6.3.beta1 released
After 2 months I finally managed to release a beta of Global Translator which is expected to return to use Google Translation Services without incurring the annoying 403 error. I entered an intelligent traffic light, where the temporal distance between two requests is less than the limit imposed by Google, waiting for 1.8 [...]
Global Translator 0.6.2: support for the new Babelfish translation URL
Thanks to some good reports I've discovered that Babelfish has changed the URL to invoke for translation: an immediate effect on Global Translator was clearly blocking all translations based on this engine.
Fortunately, the amendment to restore support to Babelfish is really minimal (one thing to 5 minutes) then call [...]
Global Translator 0.6.1 released
This minor release fixes a couple of problems encountered by some users:
The first relates to the fact that in some cases the 'HTML returned by the translation service causes a layout tray flags
the second is actually a bug in URL parsing to extract the code [...]
Global Translator 0.6 released
I finally decided to release version 0.6 of Global Translator. After a few days when I have not received reports of unusual or serious problems I promoted the version currently in development to stable.
Global Translator 0.6.beta5 issued
The 0.6.beta5 includes a small but significant change for the retrieval of the URL to be sent to the translation service.
The previous rules created problems for some configurations and was in conflict with FireStats.
I take this opportunity to thank Jason F.
Irwin for their valuable support given me.
Release notes:
Fixed compatibility problem with FireStats
Global Translator 0.6.beta4 issued
With the new feature that lets you select which translations to enable, I introduced a bug that did not allow to display the flag on the basic language of the blog. The main reason for 0.6.beta4. Details below:
Introduced Fixed bug with the new configuration option to choose Which Permits Which flags to show
Added [...]
Global Translator 0.6.beta3 issued
We are now at the rate of release day! All thanks to the valuable feedbacks I receive, and allow me to test the code well. Today (which is a Easter - Congratulations!) 0.6.beta3 where we are at version with a few other fixes I've added a feature that high demand is the ability to [...]
Global Translator 0.6.beta2 issued
After collecting the first feedbacks from our loyal users, last night I released version 0.6.beta2 which should correct some problems with the integration of Babel Fish.
The following release notes:
Removed PHP short tags
Fixed Some issues for Babelfish translation
Added alt attribute for flag IMG
Special thanks to ttancm.com for its [...]
Global Translator 0.6.beta1 issued
After a while 'idle time I decided to take back the Global Translator, my plugin for automatic translation of a blog. I preferred the version 0.6 beta release to gather as many as possible before feeedbacks declare it stable, also because I have introduced many changes, which carry [...]
Forms easily with Free Hand Forms for Wordpress
Free Hand Forms is a new Wordpress plugin (written by my friend sated) and you can insert into any page (or post) your blog, an absolutely persrìonalizzabile to create contact forms, registration, or special requests .
Global Translator quoted on ProBlogger
It gave me great satisfaction post "Blog Translations: The Next Web Frontier" published today by Lorrelle Van Fossen on problogger that identifies machine translation services like Google or Babelfish Translations, an increasingly important role in the future of blogging and talking about tools available for Wordpress, also referred to my plugin [...]
