Archive for June, 2009

This is going to be a particularly technical and boring post, so don’t build too high expectations… We’ve just released WPML 1.0.2. This version doesn’t bring any new features, but it does provide important updates to existing sites and to new sites using WPML. What we’ve done is make the translation database resilient to errors. [...]

A Google search for “WordPress CMS enabling plugins” yields 341,000 results, many of them blog posts titled “5 essential CMS plugins for WordPress“. What I’d really like to know is what you’re using when you build full websites with WordPress. We’re asking this for a reason. The next release of WPML (1.1), will put an [...]

wpml.org is now translated to Spanish, German, Japanese and Chinese. Between ourselves, we speak English, Spanish and some German but not a word in Japanese or Chinese. How can we handle contacts in these languages? It’s pretty important. Some of these contacts are from potential clients. They see our website in their language and figure [...]

Bug fixes in version 1.0.1 Last week we came out with WPML 1.0.0, which includes the new translation interface. This release fixes problems in that part of the plugin. Two problems were fixed: There were missing tables for people updating from version 0.9.9 (fresh installs were OK). All Asian languages and Norwegian were not set [...]

Today we released WPML 1.0.0 – the first solid release of WPML, which also includes a streamlined interface for content translation. Fixes and improvements As in previous versions, we owe a huge thanks to all of you who reported problems in the forum. We’re happy to see that the number of problems is constantly dropping [...]

FeedBurner is an excellent tool for delivering your RSS feed and a newsletter. It’s reliable, easy to use, gives handy statistics and is free. I’ll show you how you can use FeedBurner to deliver multilingual feeds (and a multilingual newsletter). 1. Create different feeds for each language You want visitors to receive news in their [...]

We’ve started a new forum category called Introduce yourself and your site. Everyone is welcome to post and introduce sites that use WPML. What can you get out of it? We’ll go over each and every site submitted to that category, looking for technical issues and suggesting ways to improve. Running a multilingual site is [...]

WPML’s Sticky Links are internal links between pages and posts, which follow their destinations and automatically update when target URLs change. Despite their similar (and confusing) name, they have nothing to do with WordPress Sticky Posts and Pages. What Sticky Links do Let’s start with an example: Supposing there are just two pages in our [...]