Archive for October, 2009

We have a big challenge on our hands and are looking for your suggestions. How do we make WPML’s admin as simple and friendly as possible, while keeping all the advanced features available? The idea is to give WPML two modes – Basic and Advanced. Basic mode will be for people who want to run [...]

This release gives a big hug to the folks who are using our professional translation service. WPML now allows communicating with translators directly from within the WordPress admin screen. This includes: Interviewing translators for your site and selecting the ones you prefer. Giving instructions to translators. Answering any questions translators have while they’re translating. Depositing [...]

The iStudio Canada team built teamcopd.ca for the Canadian Lung Association. He used WordPress as a content management system and WPML for both its multilingual and navigational capabilities. Mike wrote the following post, which makes for great reading for anyone building full sites with WordPress and WPML. When working on the development of TeamCOPD, I [...]

We’re just out with a first release of BuddyPress Multilingual. This plugin enables running multilingual BuddyPress sites with WPML. It adds a language switcher to BuddyPress bar, allowing visitors to select their languages. Then, it hooks to different elements that BuddyPress generates and makes sure they are all language sensitive. The main blog and guest [...]

The top navigation lists the site’s pages. It includes a special entry for the blog posts. Before this change, the posts menu was always the last item in the top navigation. The child items were always the categories. Now, the posts menu can include the list of categories, recent blog posts or nothing (just the [...]

On every release of WPML, we add new and cool features, fix bugs and… create new ones. This is very disturbing for us, as well as for the thousands who depend on WPML for their sites and we’ve decided to do something about it. The next step in WPML development is to add a full [...]

WPML includes API functions that allow themes and plugins to get multilingual services from it, but it seems that no major theme framework or plugin is using them – and they’re right! Most people who use WordPress don’t run multilingual, so it actually makes little sense for theme designers to add support just for us. [...]

Ever since the beginning, WPML performed way too many database accesses. If your site was on a busy shared host, you might have noticed a serious drop in performance with WPML. Version 1.3.3 fixes this, by eliminating 90% of these queries. You can grab the first beta release and try it. We’re already using it [...]

WPML is somewhat of a dual beast. It lets users translate their own sites and also offers professional translation. Today, I’d like to show how the professional translation works. How WPML’s professional translation works You write contents in your language. WPML sends posts and pages to ICanLocalize for translation. Translators work on ICanLocalize’s translation system. [...]