Archive for February, 2010

WPML, through ICanLocalize, is now offering completely free professional translation for any WordPress theme to over 16 major languages. How we’re doing it No, we’re not crazy. We’ve built a powerful resource file localization system, we’re using it ourselves and for a tiny additional cost we can offer free translation for anyone who needs it. [...]

When you click on Home you want to get to the home page in the language you’re browsing. WPML 1.7.1 now makes this happens as it automatically adjusts the home page link to the correct language. Before this version, you either had to edit your theme and use WPML’s API function to get to the [...]

Update (April 3, 2011): WP E-Commerce 3.8 is out and it looks like it works fine with WPML. Test it and let us know how it’s going. A week ago we wrote about sponsoring support for niche development and now we’re getting ready start with the first multilingual e-commerce solution for WordPress. Three folks – [...]

WPML 1.7.0 represents a whole new approach to multilingual WordPress sites. Any theme or plugin that uses WordPress correctly becomes multilingual out-of-the-box. Want a fully multilingual theme? Remember that 1300 words tutorial about how to create multilingual themes? It’s history. Your theme is now multilingual without any edits. We’ve tested WPML 1.7.0 on many themes, [...]

WPML 1.7.0 is now ready for your testing. It includes a whole new set of features intended to make building multilingual WordPress sites a whole lot easier. Automatically turns WordPress themes into multilingual We’ve already introduced this new feature, but it’s worth explaining again. As of this version, creating a multilingual theme requires no additional [...]

WPML allows each use to have a different admin language for WordPress. I’ll show how to determine this and set the locale so that WordPress admin displays correctly in each language. Site languages versus admin language WPML allows WordPress sites to run in different languages. This means that one language becomes the default language and [...]

While we’re working hard on WPML 1.7.0, I came across a thread in our forum, asking about multilingual support for e-commerce plugins (and an older thread here). It’s something that’s technically doable, but raises a good question – who’s going to pay the bill? This kind of work isn’t simple. To make an e-commerce plugin [...]