Archive for September, 2009

In this is guest post, Michael Wassmer explains how to build a multilingual product catalog using WordPress. The idea for this post came from a discussion in the forum about sharing custom fields and media between translations. The goal -  a multilingual product catalog with WordPress To set up my small bilingual shop I didn’t [...]

Many folks have asked us how WPML’s language information is stored. Some have even spent valuable time reverse engineering it in order to solve immediate problems (like migrating from Gengo to WPML). Without further delay, have a look at WPML’s tables description. That page describes the languages and translation table, the country flags table and [...]

We’re finally ready with a first second testing version for WPML 1.3.0 – wpml_130_beta2. New in WPML 1.3.0 This release is a result of 6 weeks of development. It’s packed with new features and bug fixes. 1. Much improved usability The translation controls are now easier to use. Adding translations is done in a single [...]

How can we do a major update for a live WordPress site, while it’s already running? WPML is getting a major usability overhaul (by Joen Asmussen). This includes the WPML plugin and wpml.org. We’re going to do vast website changes, including theme edits, changes to page hierarchy and the addition of new pages. These changes [...]

Fancy links are great, but they generate huge URLs. These cause problems when you want to send links to others via email, instant message or Twitter. I’ll show a solution that doesn’t require any plugin, doesn’t go through an external service and doesn’t create any load on your site. WordPress has default link aliases to [...]