Archive for May, 2009

In order to run multilingual WordPress sites both contents and the theme need to be localized. In this post, I’ll describe what we did in order to fully localize our own theme for wpml.org. The entire process for theme localization includes: Identifying and marking texts that need to be translated. Collecting all the texts for [...]

We’ve been trying out WPML on WordPress 2.8 (Beta 2) and it works just fine. Seeing that several other plugins we’re using did have some problems, I thought it would be interesting to write about how to make sure your own plugins and themes are resilient to WordPress updates. Tips for making plugins and themes [...]

We’re getting close to completing the first stable version of WPML and are looking forward to what’s next. The roadmap page includes a host of features that are planned but the question is what’s going to come first? In the spirit of doing something useful, I thought it would be a good idea asking WPML [...]

We’ve just started translating our own WPML.org. First languages are Spanish and German. It’s mostly working, but still has some childhood problems. I thought it would be interesting to share how this is going, tell about the problems we’re facing and how to they’re being fixed. Some of the problems are just bugs that we’re [...]

We’ve just released WPML 0.99 with a host of new features and fixes to annoying bugs. New in this version Country flags are added to the language switcher WPML allows creating your own language switcher Compatible with WordPress 2.6 Although we’ve added some long awaited features, this release is still all about fixing bugs. This [...]

This post is a real treat. Joen Asmussen is a usability testing expert. Normally, he writes reviews for companies such as LEGO. To help out with WPML, he donated a review for our plugin as well. This review goes through all of WPML’s options (current to version 0.98), tears them apart and gives constructive criticism [...]

We’re almost ready for the release of WPML 0.99. This is yet another maintenance release, but due to popular demand, we’ve already pushed in some major functions folks have been requesting in WPML forum. Besides fixing bugs (which we’re eagerly working on, as I’m writing these lines), the two most popular requests have been: Build [...]

We’ve finally created an official roadmap page listing the features we’re working on, what’s planned and when. Features are grouped into different sections including navigation, multilingual system and content translation. Many of these features are a result of great feedback we got from folks in the forum. Since many of the people visiting the forum [...]

Are you using WPML’s navigation? If you’re anything like me, you could use some help customizing the stylesheet of the drop down menu. It’s a fairly complex stylesheet, containing defailed formating for the top menu, the drop downs, selected tabs and menus and mouse hover. The online drop down menu customization tool The new drop [...]

Did you know there are over 320 million native Spanish speakers in the world? This release of WPML will make a small percentage of these people a bit happier, as it’s localized to Spanish. It’s just a pilot language. Soon, we’re adding other popular languages including German, French, Japanese and Chinese. And, when our translation [...]