Announcements

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 [...]

Today I want to tell you about our WPML Multilingual Compatibility Testing Tool that easily tests your theme and plugins’ compatibility with WPML. If you are building a multilingual website with WPML, you will really save time getting your theme’s strings compatible with WPML. If you’re building themes or plugins, this tool will help you [...]

Great news for anyone looking to use AIOSEOP on multilingual sites. All in One Seo Pack Pro V2.0 runs smoothly with WPML and is packed with many other great features. Here is a partial list of the new stuff in AIOSEOP 2: New XML Sitemap module to generate and manage your XML Sitemap New Performance module [...]

I got an unfortunate email from the Drupal Association, saying that they have to cancel DrupalCon in São Paulo, due to low participation, low sponsorship and too few session proposals. This is bad news for Brazilian Drupalers, but there’s a silver lining to the cloud. Drupal is an outstanding content management system. We’ve been active in both Drupal [...]

Our friend and WPML consultant, Piet Bos, is co-organizing the first WordPress meetup in Beijing. We’re joining this event and inviting Chinese WordPress developers to connect. If you’re in Beijing and use WordPress, you should come! This meetup will be held in the California Open Sauce Café (加州开源餐吧), Beijing, on Wednesday, September 26, 2012. Entrance is [...]

OnTheGoSystems (the company behind WPML) is growing and we’re looking for talented developers to join us. If you’re looking for an exciting and rewarding job, we have one for you. We’re very proud of WPML, but that’s not the only thing we’re building. OnTheGoSystems is responsible for a family of plugins, which work together to [...]

We submitted a session about multilingual WordPress for WordCamp São Paulo, on August 25th. In this session, we’ll to discuss about how to build and run WordPress multilingual websites. This session is intended for web designers, content admins and business owners. We’ll cover: How WPML adds language information to WordPress What it means to have [...]

Our new Installer plugin is finally here, making it possible to install commercial themes and plugins easily from within the WordPress admin. A long time ago, we started on an ambitious project, aimed at unifying the install and upgrade process of WordPress plugins. It’s ready and you’re very welcome to download and try it. Our [...]

They say that we only use 10% of our brain and we’re doing just fine. However, if we use 100% of it, we would become superheroes. I want to help you become WPML experts, so that you can build great multilingual websites with minimal effort. Just a quick recap. WPML includes these modules: Core (which everyone uses) [...]

In case you haven’t noticed, WPML forum is now available in English and Spanish. The Spanish forum is right here: http://wpml.org/es/forums/forum/soporte-en-espanol/ The Spanish support is provided by our native Spanish-speaking staff. When you need help, you can ask for it in English, or in Spanish and you’ll get the same great level of support you’re [...]

Indeed, this took a bit more than we planned, but it’s ready. You’re welcome to convert qTranslate to WPML sites using our brand new qTranslate Importer. The plugin is available right now from the WordPress repository: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/qtranslate-to-wpml-export/ It’s a two-trick pony. In its cleanup mode, it will remove all those qTranslate language meta tags from [...]

We’re ready with a new version of NextGen Gallery, with updated WPML support. This version will let you manage your galleries and maintain full translation using WPML’s String Translation module. Update (Jan 22, 2012): NextGen Gallery now includes full support for WPML (tested on NGG 1.9.2). Please download the official release. To translate your gallery, [...]

I hope that you had a great holiday season. Just like you, we’re working on plans for 2012 and I want to share our. WPML became a commercial product in 2011. While last year, we focused on adding new features, our goal for this year is broader. We’re seeing major trends in the WordPress landscape, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]