Archive for August, 2009

WPML 1.3.0 will include functions that will allow controlling language properties without the admin interface. It’s useful for a lot of things, and in particular to migrate from other multilingual plugins. I’d like to announce that WPML will include this import functionality, but it’s not the case. Instead, we’re looking for savvy developers would would [...]

We want to improve on WPML’s usability and are investigating the ratio between the number of downloads and the number of people actually using the plugin. This is a graph of WPML downloads in the last few months: The graph has a more or less constant shape with peaks for every update that we made. [...]

I’m going to show how to use Atahualpa, by Bytes For All, for building multilingual WordPress sites using WPML. A theme for a multilingual WordPress site needs to have all strings wrapped in gettext calls, but it’s not quite enough. Using gettext in the theme allows it to display in a different (single) language from [...]

Remember we kept promising we’re going to add new languages to WPML? Well, today’s the day. If your language isn’t listed you can help us add it. WPML needs to have the rest of the language names translated to your language, then, we can add it. So, this is what you’ll need to do: Download [...]

We’ve spent the last week creating a library of functions that enable to add optional multilingual support to WordPress themes and it’s time to put it to good use. Using this library, you’ll be able to make any WordPress theme multilingual if WPML is active, or run normally otherwise. And, there’s an additional extra benefit. [...]

One of the most frequent issues we’ve seen with multilingual WordPress sites is that themes are not localized. This release will make theme localization much simpler. How to use WPML’s theme localization Go to WPML->Theme localization. There are three options. Not to localize the theme at all, to translate the theme’s texts with WPML or [...]

We want to add a fancy showcase section to wpml.org, which will feature sites that use WPML. This new section will list sites that were added to our forum’s showcase section. It will look like the showcase section on WordPress.org with preview images, description, visitor rating and (of course) outgoing links. This project involves theme [...]