Archive for July, 2009

We’re going to add integrated theme localization to WPML and are looking for early feedback. The ways it’s going to work is: The theme must be localization ready with all texts wrapped in gettext calls (most themes are built like that already). WPML will scan the theme and extract the texts from it. You will [...]

WPML 1.1 allows translating not just posts, pages, tags and categories but also all the little persistent texts that didn’t get translated so far. These include the blog’s title, tagline, widget titles, widget contents and other ‘floating’ texts. New in features WPML 1.1 Translation for ‘general settings’ strings: we already talked a bit about translating [...]

One of the new features in WPML 1.1 (out soon) is translation for general strings (blog title and tagline) and widgets. Widget translation includes titles for all widgets and translation for text widget contents. If your blog/site needs widget and string translation, you’re most welcome to give the new development version of WPML. The development [...]

Update: We recommend using WordPress SEO by Yoast as your SEO plugin. It does everything that AIOSEOP does (and much more) and is fully compatible with WPML. You can read more about it and other essential multilingual plugins. WPML 1.1 is just around the corner with support for translation of texts created by other plugins. [...]

Since we started talking about building multilingual themes, we’ve been getting questions from people about turning their own themes multilingual. In our description, we choose simple cases which are easy to explain and follow. Often, advanced WordPress themes require more complex coding in order to become truly multilingual. To help folks, we’re talking with a [...]

To run a truly multilingual site your theme must be multilingual as well. Instead of repeating our textbook explanation of how to build a multilingual WordPress theme, we’re going to go over a live example. We’ll go over the theme used for nadelspiel.com, a German site about hand made needle sewing. Things that need to [...]

We’ve just release what we hope would be the last bug-fix release before the next major version (1.1). WPML 1.0.4 adds some new functions and fixes some persistent problems which managed to slip all the way to this version. New features Much faster display for admin pages. This would only be noticed for large sites [...]