WPML Blog

This is a screenshot of WPML’s menu: A bit scary, isn’t it? It’s not entirely our fault. WPML adds languages, translation process, theme localization, CMS navigation and Sticky links. You can also get support directly from it. Lots of functionality… But, when you think about it, almost everything here is for the web developer building [...]

WPML 1.8.2 addresses small bugs and improves the professional translation process. This is a no thrills update. There are no huge new features and no immediate impact on existing sites. If you’re building themes and had to work around small bugs, you’ll enjoy seeing that they’ve been resolved. The major improvement in this release is [...]

When you finish a site for a client, how to you teach them the basics of WordPress? We’re talking about the real basics here like logging in, what posts and pages are, using the visual editor, pasting from MS Word, uploading images, stuff like that. The new WordPress Admin Guide can help. Right now, it [...]

Running a multilingual site is a challenge. It starts with the theme development, continues with building the site and ends with administering multilingual contents. The next major version of WPML aims to improve on all aspects. Just a year ago, people used WordPress mainly to build blogs. Most themes were blog-oriented. Then, came magazine themes [...]

If your French translator is lagging due to the famous vacance, getting help from ICanLocalize is now easier than ever. Just to be clear, we’re not talking only about French translators. ICanLocalize has a pool of over 1000 translators, writing in more than 30 languages. Until this release, getting professional translation was a bit awkward. [...]

Many folks who use WPML look at WordPress as a CMS, not just a blogging tool. Pär Thernström‘s CMS Tree Page View makes using WordPress as CMS a lot easier. CMS Tree Page View shows WordPress pages as a tree, instead of a (useless) list. You can expand and collapse branches and move pages around. [...]

Thanks to the continuously growing WPML community, new bugs have been identified in the last release so here we are  almost ready with a new release that includes fixes for these bugs or implementation for various small features. sitepress-multilingual-cms-1.8.1-dev Bug Fixes Custom posts types were not always recognized in WP_Query # WP Menus: uninitialized array, [...]

Update: this job is now taken. ICanLocalize has grown organically, basing our marketing mainly on word-of-mouth (and business via WPML). As we’re entering the corporate market, we’re also looking to build a marketing mechanism – something that would deliver the word to folks outside of our close circle. If you know of anyone, or have [...]

Much of the inspiration for WPML actually comes from Drupal, so I was thinking, maybe there are other great features in other content management systems which we’re missing? This post is mostly your. Tell us about cools and useful features in other content management system, which you can only dream about in WordPress. Remember to [...]

One of the best new features in WordPress 3.0 has to be the new menu system. And now, it’s multilingual too. We’ve already gone through two developer releases and are thankful for the help we got testing it. In a nutshell, menus now have languages. When you view the public pages, you’ll see the menu [...]

We’re ready with another developer’s release of WPML, which (properly) supports multilingual menus. sitepress-multilingual-cms-1.8.0.RC1_1.zip Now that it’s working, it’s also easy to use. To create menus in different languages, click on the language link to add translation to the menu. There’s a menu per language, so you have the flexibility of including whatever you need [...]

We’re almost ready with WPML 1.8.0 (multilingual menus) and are thinking about the next major step for WPML – adding a complete translation workflow. Many folks get help from translators. These can be volunteers or freelance professional translators. Today, in order to translate, you need to make these translators into editors and teach them about [...]

We’re ready with a developers version of WPML that includes multilingual menus. This version looks OK, but we’re still not using it for our own sites. sitepress-multilingual-cms-1.7.9.1.zip Different Menu Per Language Menus now have languages, so that they also have translations – just like everything else in your site. When visitors go to your site, [...]

WPML 1.7.9 includes a significant change in the String Localization engine. We’ve talked about it before, but I think that we never really gave a comprehensive guide about translating themes and plugins. Here goes. Translation Languages First, let’s talk a minute about which languages you’re translating between. If the default language of your site is [...]

If you’re running a blog farm and wanted to use WPML, you now can. This release fixes a few problems which prevented WPML from running MultiSite with WordPress 3.0. MultiSite Support MultiSite Support boils down to sitewide activation. Until now it just didn’t work, producing all sorts of errors. As of WPML 1.7.9, sitewide activation [...]