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WPML 1.7.2 doesn’t contain any new features. Instead, we’ve spent the last few weeks ironing out big and small issues reported in the forum.
If celebrity came of to visit you, what you do? Probably clean up the house and tidy anything you can. This is exactly what we’ve done too.
Next week, WPML is going live [...]

WPML, through ICanLocalize, is now offering completely free professional translation for any WordPress theme to over 16 major languages.
How we’re doing it
No, we’re not crazy. We’ve built a powerful resource file localization system, we’re using it ourselves and for a tiny additional cost we can offer free translation for anyone who needs it.
We’re localizing our [...]

When you click on Home you want to get to the home page in the language you’re browsing. WPML 1.7.1 now makes this happens as it automatically adjusts the home page link to the correct language.
Before this version, you either had to edit your theme and use WPML’s API function to get to the correct [...]

A week ago we wrote about sponsoring support for niche development and now we’re getting ready start with the first multilingual e-commerce solution for WordPress.
Three folks – Nicolas Harnois (2 Associés), Dan Milward (WordPress e-Commerce Plugin) and Level Level have agreed to sponsor this work.
Since we have an interested co-sponsor, we’ll naturally be starting with [...]

WPML 1.7.0 represents a whole new approach to multilingual WordPress sites. Any theme or plugin that uses WordPress correctly becomes multilingual out-of-the-box.
Want a fully multilingual theme?
Remember that 1300 words tutorial about how to create multilingual themes? It’s history. Your theme is now multilingual without any edits.
We’ve tested WPML 1.7.0 on many themes, including popular free [...]

WPML 1.7.0 is now ready for your testing. It includes a whole new set of features intended to make building multilingual WordPress sites a whole lot easier.
Automatically turns WordPress themes into multilingual
We’ve already introduced this new feature, but it’s worth explaining again.
As of this version, creating a multilingual theme requires no additional effort on your [...]

WPML allows each use to have a different admin language for WordPress. I’ll show how to determine this and set the locale so that WordPress admin displays correctly in each language.
Site languages versus admin language
WPML allows WordPress sites to run in different languages. This means that one language becomes the default language and other languages [...]

While we’re working hard on WPML 1.7.0, I came across a thread in our forum, asking about multilingual support for e-commerce plugins (and an older thread here). It’s something that’s technically doable, but raises a good question – who’s going to pay the bill?
This kind of work isn’t simple. To make an e-commerce plugin multilingual, [...]

90% of WPML users run multilingual blogs and 10% use it with custom themes, using WordPress as CMS. What about all the great premium themes out there?
Turning themes multilingual is too much work
Premium WordPress themes are complex beasts. When folks purchase them, they’re ready to be used and provide tons of functionality.
This means you can [...]

WPML users had an excellent suggestion on making it easy to add new languages to existing sites.
The idea is you can add new languages to your site, but everything in those languages stays invisible (to visitors) until you’re done with the translations.
So, you can translate peacefully, without things looking half done or half-broken and then, [...]

WPML can now translate texts in the theme and other plugins without going through .po and .mo files. It also has an improved String Editor for faster and more efficient translation.

This is what I’m doing in this movie:

Enable WPML’s Advanced mode, to gain access to the Theme and plugin localization menu.
Go to Theme [...]

We’re ready with the first release candidate of WPML 1.6.0. This version allows translating other plugins, includes a much improved string translation interface and fixes many bugs.
New features in WPML 1.6.0
WPML can translate other plugins too
WPML can now translate everything in your site, include other plugins. You can do that without asking for any .po [...]

We’re translating quite a few WordPress sites, but too few web designers are claiming their affiliate commission, so it’s probably time to explain how it works and how you can benefit from our affiliate plan.
ICanLocalize professional translation and affiliate plan
You probably know about the professional translation available via WPML (WP admin->WPML->Pro translation).
What you might not [...]

WPML 1.5.0 included a bunch of new features and with new features came new bugs. This release addresses all reported bugs and puts things back in to place.
Major issues
Fixed broken link to media library
A one-line code bug cause WPML to kill the media library. It’s fixed now and the media library is accessible and usable [...]

Normally, we include the new features in the post title, but it wasn’t possible for WPML 1.5.0, `cause there are too many of them!
So, without further delay, here are the new features in WPML:
Compatibility packages for themes and plugins
Much of WordPress’ strength comes from the thousands of plugins folks have created for it.
Now, WPML allows [...]