Archive for January, 2010

90% of WPML users run multilingual blogs and 10% use it with custom themes, using WordPress as CMS. What about all the great premium themes out there? Turning themes multilingual is too much work Premium WordPress themes are complex beasts. When folks purchase them, they’re ready to be used and provide tons of functionality. This [...]

WPML users had an excellent suggestion on making it easy to add new languages to existing sites. The idea is you can add new languages to your site, but everything in those languages stays invisible (to visitors) until you’re done with the translations. So, you can translate peacefully, without things looking half done or half-broken [...]

WPML can now translate texts in the theme and other plugins without going through .po and .mo files. It also has an improved String Editor for faster and more efficient translation. This is what I’m doing in this movie: Enable WPML’s Advanced mode, to gain access to the Theme and plugin localization menu. Go to [...]

We’re ready with the first release candidate of WPML 1.6.0. This version allows translating other plugins, includes a much improved string translation interface and fixes many bugs. New features in WPML 1.6.0 WPML can translate other plugins too WPML can now translate everything in your site, include other plugins. You can do that without asking [...]

We’re translating quite a few WordPress sites, but too few web designers are claiming their affiliate commission, so it’s probably time to explain how it works and how you can benefit from our affiliate plan. ICanLocalize professional translation and affiliate plan You probably know about the professional translation available via WPML (WP admin->WPML->Pro translation). What [...]