WordPress Global Translator Plugin

SPONSORED LINKS

Global Translator is a free and open source WordPress Plugin which is able to automatically translate your blog in 48 different languages:
Italian, Korean, Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), Portuguese, English, German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Arabic, Russian, Greek, Dutch, Bulgarian, Czech, Croatian, Danish, Finnish, Hindi, Polish, Romanian, Swedish, Norwegian, Catalan, Filipino, Hebrew, Indonesian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Albanian, Estonian, Galician, Maltese, Thai, Turkish, Hungarian, Belarus,Irish, Icelandic, Macedonian, Malay, Persian.
The number of available translations will depend on your blog language and the translation engine you will chose to use.
The most powerful features which Global Translator provides are:

Four different Translation Engines: it has the ability to provide the translations by using Google Translation Engine, Babel Fish, Promt, FreeTranslations.com
Search Engine Optimized: it uses the permalinks by adding the language code at the beginning of all your URI. For example the english version on www.domain.com/mycategory/mypost will be automatically transformed in www.domain.com/en/mycategory/mypost
Fast Caching System: new fast, smart, optimized, self-cleaning and built-in caching system. Drastically reduction of the risk of temporarily ban from translation engines.
Fully configurable layout: you can easily customize the appearance of the translation bar by choosing between a TABLE, DIV or IMAGE MAP based layout for the flags bar and by selecting the number of translations to make available to your visitors
No database modifications: Global Translator is not intrusive. It doesn’t create or alter any table on your database: this feature permits to obtain better performances.

If to want to have the latest news and updates delivered directly to you, to stay up to date you could decide to subscribe to my latest post or to my comments. You could also evaluate to receive the updates by email: see at the “SUBSCRIPTION” section on the sidebar.

IMPORTANT: I daily receive about 30/40 comments and messages containing suggestions or support requests about Global Translator. Unfortunately I can’t offer free support anymore because it requires a lot of time and costs a lot. If you need help or need more advanced features, I suggest you to buy Global Translator PRO.

Download
Latest version (20th of Mar, 2010): global-translator.1.3.1.zip

Need support or advanced features? Take a look at Global Translator PRO!

I’ve spent a lot of time writing this code and supporting it.
If you derive some benefit from this code, please consider showing your gratitude in a more tangible way. Thanks!

Requirements

Global Translator has been tested on WordPress 2.3.*, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8 and 2.9.

Installation

Upload the folder “global-translator” into your “wp-content/plugins”
Log in to WordPress Administration area, choose “Plugins” from the main menu, find “Global Translator”, and click the “Activate” button
Choose “Options->Global Translator” from the main menu and select
your blog language and your preferred configuration options then select “Update Options“.

Upgrading

Uninstall and remove the previous version and follow the Installation instructions, but if you’re upgrading from 0.9 or higher version I suggest you to preserve the “cache” directory.

Configuration

If your theme is widged-enabled, just choose “Presentation->Widgets” from the administration main menu
and drag the “Global translator” widget on the preferred position on your sidebar.
If your theme is not widgetized, just add the following php code (usually to the sidebar.php file):
```
<?php
if(function_exists("gltr_build_flags_bar")) { 
gltr_build_flags_bar(); 
}
?>
```
After this simple operation, a bar containing the flags which represents all the available translations for your language will appear on your blog. Check my blog for an example (on the sidebar) or take a look to my Youtube Video Downloaders blog.

Uninstallation

Log in to WordPress Administration area, choose “Plugins” from the main menu, find the name of the plugin “Global Translator”, and click the “Deactivate” button

Bug submission

Bug submission is an important aspect of many Open Source projects, and submitting bugs correctly increases the chances of the developer finding and fixing any problems that may arise.
If you want to submit bug issues, please use the Contact form and remember to specify the following informations:
– the version of the plugin you’re using
– a full description of the problem (and the error message if available)
Please don’t submit bugs or support requests as comments otherwise the discussion threads risk to become confusing.
Alternatively you can also start a new topic here.

Changelog
1.3.1

Removed N2H backlink
Fixed some issues on the regexp

1.2.7

Added 6 new languages

1.2.6

Improvements on link cleaning
default cache expire time switched to 15 days
replaced 503 HTTP code (“Network Temporarily Unreachable”) with a 302 redirect on not yet translated pages in order to remove the warning messages on GooGle WebMaster Tool

1.2.5.1

some fixes on the new cleaning system

1.2.5

updated page cleaning system in order to prevent new Google updates on the HTML sources

1.2.4

Fixed trailing slash issue
Replaced 404 errors with 302 redicection for better SEO
Other fixes and optimizations

1.2.3

Fixed sitemap integration for blogs not installed on the root path
Fixed encoding problems related to the introduction of the new Google APIs

1.2.2.1

Hacked new Google URL structure

1.2.1

Added seven new languages: Albanian,Estonian,Galician,Maltese,Thai,Turkish,Hungarian
Improved caching performances
Added Show/Hide button for statistics on options page
Optimized connections to google translation engine

1.2

Fixed Chinese Traditional Translation

1.1.2

New configuration feature: flags bar in a single image (based on contribution by Amir – http://www.gibni.com)
Translated Portuguese languages array (Thanks to Henrique Cintra)
Added Chinese (traditional) translation
Fixed “division by zero” error
Fixed image map configuration error

1.0.9.2

Better IIS url rewriting support
Fixed Norwegian configuration
Moved shared function to header.php

1.0.9.1

Changed HTTP error for not yet translated pages from 404 to 503 (Service Temporarily Unavailable)

1.0.9

Added 404 error code for not yet translated pages
Added support for IIS rewrite rules (based on the usage of “/index.php” at the beginning of the permalink)
Other performances improvements

1.0.8.1

general performances improvement
added check for blocking recursive and bad translation requests (i.e. www.mysite/en/fr/…)
fixed A tags rendering
moved cache dir outside the plugin dir
fixed options page access problem
fixed trailing slash issue

1.0.7.1

Added cache compression
fixed layout bugs
fixed link building problem (internal anchors not working)
Added 11 new languages to Google Translation Engine!

1.0.6

Added new optional cache invalidation time based parameter

1.0.5

Hacked new Google block introduced on (27th of August 2008)
Random User Agent selection for translation requests

1.0.4

Performances improvement in cache cleaning algorithm
Fixed the sitemap plugin detection function
Fixed javascript errors on translated pages

1.0.3

Added Debug option on the admin area
Added Connection Interval option on the admin area
Added more detailed messages and info on the admin page
Updated new Promt translation url
Fixed some issues about cache cleaning for blogs not using the permalinks
Added experimental sitemap integration

1.0.2

Fixed cache issue with blogs not using the pemalinks

1.0.1

Fixed compatibility issue with older version of WordPress

1.0

Improved cleaning system for translated pages
New fast, smart, optimized, self-cleaning and built-in caching system. Drastically reduction of temporarily ban risk
Added Widget Title
Added 404 error page for deactivated translations

0.9.1

Added file extension exclusion for images and resources (they don’t need to be translated)
Activated new Prompt configuration
Fixed little issue with Portuguese translation
Fixed Swedish, Arabic and Czech flags icons (thanks to Mijk Bee and Nigel Howarth)
Added new (and better) event-based cache invalidation system

0.9

Added support for 10 new languages for Google Translations engine: Bulgarian, Czech, Croat, Danish, Finnish, Hindi, Polish, Rumanian, Swedish, Greek, Norwegian
Updated flags icons (provided by famfamfam.com)

0.8

Updated Prompt engine
Added experimental translation engines ban prevention system
Improved caching management
Improved setup process
Fixed a bug on building links for “Default Permalink Structure”

0.7.1

Fixed bug “Call to a member function on a non-object in /[….]/query.php”.
It happens only on certain servers with a custom PHP configuration
Fixed bug on building links for “Default Permalink Structure”

0.7

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 (i.e.: “www.site.com/?p=111”)
Added widgetization: Global Translator is now widgetized!
Fixed some bugs and file permission issues
Excluded RSS feeds and trackback urls translation
Fixed some problems on translated pages

0.6.2

Updated in order to handle the new Babelfish translation URL.(Thanks to Roel!)

0.6.1

Fixed some layout issues
Fixed url parsing bugs

0.6

Fixed compatibility problem with Firestats
Added the “gltr_” prefix for all the functions names in order to reduce naming conflicts with other plugins
Added new configuration feature: now you can choose to enable a custom number of translations
Removed PHP short tags
Fixed some issues for Babelfish translation
Added alt attribute for flags IMG
Added support to BabelFish Engine: this should help to solve the “403 Error” by Google
Added my signature to the translation bar. It can be removed, but you should add a link to my blog on your blogroll.
Replaced all the flags images
Added help messages for cache support
Added automatic permalink update system: you don’t need to re-save your permalinks settings
Fixed many link replacement issues
Added hreflang attribute to the flags bar links
Added id attribute to <A> tag for each flag link
Added <DIV> tag for the translation bar
Added support for the following new languages: Russian, Greek, Dutch

0.5

Added BLOG_URL variable in order to correctly handle a “Blog address” different from the “WordPress address”
Improved url replacement
Added caching support (experimental): the cached object will be stored inside the following directory:
“[…]/wp-content/plugins/global-translator/cache”.
Fixed Japanese support (just another bug)

0.4.1

Better HTTP request will be sent to Google Translation Services
Bug fix: sometimes the translated page contains also the original page (appended)

0.4

The plugin has been completely rewritten
Added permalinks support for all the supported languages
Added automatic blog links substitution in order to preserve the selected language.
Added Arabic support
Fixed Japanese support
Removed “setTimeout(180);” call: it is not supported by certain servers
Added new option which permits to split the flags in more than one row

0.2/0.3

Added localized tooltips on the flags
Added language configuration section on the administration area.

0.1

Initial release

WordPress Global Translator Plugin

Lascia un commento

Articoli recenti

Categorie

Raccomandati

Pubblicità

WordPress Global Translator Plugin

Articoli correlati a "WordPress Global Translator Plugin"

Lascia un commento

News & Aggiornamenti

Articoli recenti

Categorie

Raccomandati

Pubblicità