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WPML 2.1.2 – Complete Support for WordPress 3.1

February 28th, 2011 by Amir

WordPress 3.1 includes a host of great new features. WPML 2.1.2 makes them all multilingual. WordPress 3.1 continues the trend that started in version 3.0. It’s fast becoming the most powerful open-source CMS available today. This time, the changes are less obvious in the GUI, but very significant for anyone building complex sites. In this [...]

Improve Theme Compatibility and Get WPML for Free

February 23rd, 2011 by Amir

We do our best to make WPML compatible with premium themes, but only people who know and use these themes can really test it all. Help us and get your free lifetime account for WPML. With dozens of theme development houses and hundreds of commercial themes, it’s impossible for us to test every theme configuration [...]

WPML 2.1.1

February 22nd, 2011 by Amir

This version of WPML includes fixes for several bugs and improves functionality for both the Multilingual Blog and Multilingual CMS packages. This is a recommended upgrade for all users. There are no database changes. Here are the changes in this release: Module Problem Description Multilingual Blog No option to make custom post types multilingual Now, [...]

Better Search for WordPress with Relevanssi

February 21st, 2011 by Amir

A powerful search tool can boost your site’s usability. The built-in search in WordPress doesn’t really give that. Fortunately, there’s Relevanssi. An analyst interviewed me yesterday about our iPhone localization system. She asked what are the most popular languages to localize iPhone apps. That’s easy! I’ll just find you the blog post I’ve written about [...]

WPML 2.1.0

February 11th, 2011 by Amir

After almost 2 months of hard work, WPML 2.1.0 is ready. This is the first commercial release, so it’s only available from WPML.org. Almost everything new in WPML 2.1.0 is under the hood. In this release, we concentrated on improving security, stability and performance. What’s new in WPML 2.1.0 Split into 5 plugins We recognized [...]

One Last Test and We’re Ready

February 6th, 2011 by Amir

How do you decide when a product is ready? Accelerated-ageing testing using massive amount of random data helps uncover hidden bugs. Before I started ICanLocalize and WPML, I was a chip-designer. Chips are the “brains” in electronic devices, such as computers, phones, TVs, and anything else you can think of. To produce chips dozens of [...]

WPML is Becoming a Commercial Product

February 2nd, 2011 by Amir

After 2 years and over 200,000 downloads, we’re turning WPML into a commercial plugin. I know this may not be the most popular move, but I can promise that the long-term results would be great for everyone. The Numbers We’ll be offering two versions: Multilingual Blog – $29 USD Multilingual CMS – $79 USD The [...]