Archive for April, 2009

We’re busy working on the next major addition to WPML – integrating professional translation within the plugin. Here’s a quick preview, just so you know what to expect. Overview When it’s ready, you’ll see another section in the WPML admin menu, called Content Translation. This is where all the translation stuff goes to. The rest [...]

We’ve just released version 0.9.7 of WPML. This is another bug fix release that includes fixes to problems reported over the last week. Major new features and bug fixes for WPML 0.9.7 Proper support for posting via XML-RPC If you’re not sure what XML-RPC is, you can safely skip away. XML-RPC is a protocol that [...]

When you set up a multilingual WordPress site using WPML you can choose to have different languages in different domains, in sub-domains or in language folders. This article will explain where each of these options should be used. This isn’t a technical question, but rather depends on what you’re trying to achieve. To answer this, [...]

We’ve been asked how to translate texts that appear in the site but are not a part of posts or pages. Some examples are: Text widget Blog tagline Other widget titles What we’re thinking about is adding a generic string translation facilty which will allow localizing anything that’s text. The way it will work is: [...]

When we started working on our Multilingual CMS plugin for WordPress, we tried to look for a good name. It turns out that the name we picked was a trademark of a different product. A simple search would have revealed it, but we just weren’t aware. To avoid any problems, we’ve changed our name to: [...]

WPML creates top navigation with drop down menus, a breadcrumbs trail and sidebar navigation. In this post, I’ll talk a bit about how to use and style them. We’ll use our own theme (used for WPML.org) as an example. Styling WPML navigation To apply your styling to the navigational elements, you need to override the [...]