Archive for April, 2010

We’re very happy by the positive response to our previous post about becoming WPML consultants and it’s time to get started. All paid jobs are posted in our forum. They’re marked as Paid support, just like these: Getting notifications about new paid support jobs I recommend that you subscribe to the forum’s Paid support RSS [...]

GetText allows translating texts in themes and plugins, but in order to work right, you must create texts that translate well. We’ll show you frequent mistakes and how to correct them. GetText is a GNU’s text localization package. It allows replacing text in one language with texts in another language. We’ve already talked about using [...]

WPML is nearing 80,000 downloads and demand for professional services is surging. We’re looking to create a team of professional developers who can work as consultants and do jobs for other WPML users. Some common tasks that folks ask us (every day) Help turn themes multilingual Make other plugins work with WPML Resolve configuration problems [...]

The yesterday WPML 1.7.4 release didn’t go so well due to a bug that managed to slip through. The translated homepages of sites using the ‘page on front’ WP option and the WPML’s ‘Different languages in directories’ setting were affected – instead of showing the translated homepage, the blog page or a 404 page was [...]

UPDATE: We had to pull out version 1.7.4 due to a last minute killer bug. We’ll have it back tomorrow. This version of WPML includes small bug fixes and changes that make it work with WordPress 3. WordPress 3 is not out yet, but it’s just around the corner, so it’s a good idea for [...]

Intro In this guest post, Wolf-Dieter Grabner, tells about building a multilingual corporate site using WordPress, Thesis theme and WPML. Wolf-Dieter gives both the why and the how, which are equally interesting. It shows how WordPress is used as a time saving tool for both the web developer and the client. The Client SBA Roll [...]

WordPress is evolving and WPML is following. The WP core team is ready with the first Beta version for brave testers, so while you’re testing it, make sure to test it with WPML’s developers version as well. We’re going to handle the migration to WordPress 3 in two steps: Make all existing WPML functions work [...]