Archive for December, 2011

We want to provide localized support in both Japanese and Chinese and want to hire developers to help with that. If you live in Japan or China and want to work with us, we’d love to talk with you. This can be either full-time or part-time position. Your responsibilities would be: Helping in dedicated Japanese [...]

We got a lot of requests to allow Views to work properly with any custom fields, regardless of which plugin they were created with (or no plugin at all). Well, please welcome Custom Fields Shortcodes. Custom Fields Shortcodes lets you insert shortcodes for any custom field, regardless of how it was created. With this, you [...]

Using WooCommerce and want to run a multilingual site? Now you can. We’re ready with (beta) versions for WooCommerce, WooCommerce Multilingual and a new WPML version that supports them. The nice thing was that WooCommerce uses WordPress in a very clean way. This allowed us to turn it multilingual without resorting to any hacks. We [...]

A few days ago, we added Hebrew translation for WPML.org. The challenge was less about adding the translations more with making WPML.org theme display it correctly in right-to-left. Daniel (our support manager) wrote this post to explain what he did to add RTL support to our theme. These were the main challenges we faced: Swap [...]

Today, we completed a long test cycle for WPML and the Domain Mapping plugin. The bottom line, with the current versions of WordPress, WPML and Domain Mapping, everything is working for us. The Domain Mapping and WPML tutorial include complete, step-by-steps for you to follow. There’s also a small patch for Domain Mapping, making it [...]

We’re starting to work on an importer from qTranslate to WPML. This importer will convert the mixed-content that qTranslate creates into per-language posts and taxonomy. How this works qTranslate holds all content in the same post, taxonomy or custom field. WPML created different items per language. Without going into a discussion about what’s better, it’s [...]

WPML includes full support for untranslated content, using the new Content Duplication feature. It also lets you translate custom fields using a Visual WYSIWYG editor. Displaying Untranslated Content It turns out that displaying untranslated content across different languages is not as simple as you’d think. WPML 2.4.2 supports this by allowing you to duplicate that [...]

The Mines Abad has created a useful plugin that removes the ‘category’ label from WordPress category URLs. You can get it from the WP plugins repository: WP No Category Base – WPML compatible After installing it, I can see the category URLs changing from: MYSITE/category/uncategorized/ to just: MYSITE/uncategorized/ Pretty neat! I tested it locally and [...]

We’re ready with a new beta release, with a highly requested feature – to allow displaying untranslated content in different languages. Remember how you’d like your blog posts to appear in different languages (but without accidentally switching language) and how you wished you didn’t have to duplicate stuff when translation is not needed? WPML 2.4.2 [...]