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This is a guest post by Neil Matthews from webpolyglot.com. In this post Neil will talk about building multi language and multi currency websites with WPML and WooCommerce. Why Build Multi Currency / Multi Language Websites? If English is the Lingua Franca of international business and the USD is seen as the recognised currency of online transactions, why do [...]

WordPress 3.6 is not quite ready for production sites yet, but WPML 2.8.2 is out already, with full compatibility for upcoming WordPress 3.6 features. The major new feature in WordPress 3.6 is the post formats. This is a new (and much improved) GUI that makes the existing post formats feature a lot more usable and [...]

I’ve been doing a lot of travel lately and I can just see how important “multilingual” is becoming in the hospitality business. Many web developers are already building great multilingual tourism, but I’m sure there’s a lot more that we can do to make your work easier. So, if you are building hospitality sites today, [...]

Our list of paid contractors is growing and we’ve decided to organize it by language. This means you’ll be able to find contractors who can help you in your own language. Turns out, custom post types was the right solution for this. Read on to see why. Our contractors page contains a few opening sentences, [...]

Once again, we’re very happy to announce a new release of WooCommerce Multilingul. This is the first version that’s fully compatible with WooCommerce 2.x. WooCommerce Multilingual 2.0 now works with both WooCommerce 2.x and the legacy 1.x versions. It looks exactly like before and does the same, but with the new filters that WooCommerce 2.x [...]

We are looking to make it easier for you (or your clients) to get translation work from various translation services. Our aim is to provide streamlined interfaces that will allow you to easily send content to translation and receive it to your site. Our Model for Translation-Service Integration You probably know that we run ICanLocalize - [...]

We’re very happy to release WooCommerce Multilingual 1.5, with support for WooCommerce 1.6.6, improvements and bug fixes. As you probably know, WooCommerce is already moving to version 2.0.3. We’re working on support for WooCommerce 2.x, but it’s not ready yet. This version runs with WooCommerce 1.6.6. What’s New in WooCommerce Multilingual 1.5 Fixed setting prices [...]

WPML 2.7 greatly focuses on performance and robustness of existing features. After upgrading our own site, we see a very significant improvement in CPU load and site speed. Speed Improvements In this release, we’ve set our focus on making WPML run faster. For this, we gathered a number of large databases, profiled WPML’s code and [...]

Yesterday we did a trial update for WPML 2.7 on our own site. Overall, I’m very happy with the results. WPML.org’s response time was cut by about 50% (x2 faster) and some functionality that we’ve been long waiting for is finally working smoothly. However, a little bug related to RSS feed filtering caused Feedburner to [...]

If you need to import content into WordPress, from a different CMS or from any other source, you should check out the new tutorial on content import to WordPress over at wp-types.com. The tutorial explains how to format a CSV file, how to create the custom post types, fields and taxonomy and run the import [...]

If you’re building e-commerce sites with Jigoshop, we have good news for you.  Jigoshop Multilingual 1.0 fixes bugs and lets you translate more of your store. Here is what’s new in JigoShop Multilingual 1.0… Bug fixes Variable product after duplication looses its type Translated text doesn’t appear on the checkout page Removed several PHP notices Redirect [...]

WPML 2.6.4 is ready. It includes a few last fixes for WordPress 3.5 issues and long-awaited support for multilingual Disqus comments. The Disqus support has no GUI and nothing to configure. If you use the recent version of the Disqus WordPress plugin and update to WPML 2.6.4, things should ‘just work’. You will see the [...]

In case you need to migrate websites from qTranslate to WPML, you might want to know that we’ve updated the qTranslate to WPML migration plugin. The new version does the same as before, just a lot better. Here are some fixes and improvements: Fixed importing terms – this will help if you had issues importing [...]

If you are using our support, you might have noticed two languages in the last few days. We are very happy to announce the availability of native German and Simplified Chinese support for WPML. True, most WPML clients can read and write English just fine. However, we all know that it’s a lot more fun [...]

In case you’re just now looking to start using custom fields, you’ll enjoy the displaying WordPress custom fields tutorial on wp-types.com. It’s mainly geared towards custom fields created using Types plugin, using either Types PHP API, or Views. However, there are also two lengthy appendices that dive into the internals of how WordPress stores custom [...]