Archive for November, 2009

One of the new features in WPML 1.4.1 will be language fallback for blog posts. This means, your translated blog can show either: Only posts that have translation. All posts – if there’s translation, show it, otherwise, show the post in the default language. Our site includes pages and posts. We’re translating almost all pages, [...]

We’re adding an option to set WPML’s language switcher design from within the admin screen. This will include setting all the colors of all elements, so that the language switcher matches the site. In addition to letting users manually enter their own language switcher colors, we’re going to include several preset color schemes to choose [...]

We’re working on new and exciting features for WPML, but before all, we want to make sure that no bugs are left behind. So, just before diving in to the first theme multilingual packs, we’re ready with another bugfix release: WPML1.4.0.4_dev Who should upgrade If you’ve reported an issue in the forum, most chances are [...]

We reviewed dozens of sites using WPML, trying to figure out what are the most important features missing from WPML – the results are not very surprising, but it’s good to get them from actual sites. 1. Butt-ugly language switchers WPML creates a drop-down language switcher. It’s fully functional, but the default design doesn’t match [...]

Raise your hand if you like Googling for .mo files. WPML is going to make .mo files a thing of the past. All translations will be saved in WPML’s String Translation memory. It will automatically download translations for your themes and plugins and will let you edit them (if they’re missing, or you want to [...]

This release of WPML aims to make it simpler for everyone. Beginner users will see just the minimal functionality for running a multilingual site. This will include only a single page for language setup. Then, click on ‘Advanced’ and the rest of WPML’s features appear. We’ve also simplified WPML’s professional translation interface. Now, all operations [...]

We’re getting ready for WPML 1.4.0 and have a preview release for it – wpml_140_prev2.zip The main change is this release is having two modes: Basic – allowing only to enter multilingual contents. Advanced – allowing everything else too. Before the final release, we’re also going to make the professional translation interface much simpler. Bugs [...]