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Multilingual NextGen Gallery Update

January 11th, 2012 by Amir

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, [...]

WPML Outlook for 2012

January 4th, 2012 by Amir

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, [...]

Looking for Chinese and Japanese Support and Consultants

December 29th, 2011 by Amir

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 [...]

WooCommerce Multilingual in Beta

December 27th, 2011 by Amir

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 [...]

How-To Tutorial for Domain Mapping and WPML

December 20th, 2011 by Amir

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 [...]

qTranslate to WPML Importer

December 19th, 2011 by Amir

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 [...]

Types – multilingual-ready custom content setup

November 15th, 2011 by Amir

Types is ready to download and use. It allows creating custom post types, custom taxonomy and custom fields. It’s fully integrated with WPML and with Views, letting you build complex multilingual sites with WordPress without any coding. Setting Up Types creates three things: Custom post types Custom taxonomy Custom fields (meta boxes) First, download Types [...]

Get Referral Commission for Sending Us Developers

September 26th, 2011 by Amir

We’re growing and need help. WPML and our two new plugins, Types and Views, require more support and applications experts. We want to pay you $500 (USD) for referring great applicants to us. In order to keep up with demand for expert support, we’re looking for developers, who want to join our support and applications [...]

Multilingual-Ready Custom Types and Fields Plugins

September 12th, 2011 by Amir

Custom data types make all the difference between a cool blogging tool and a true CMS. To date, there isn’t a complete solution for managing custom data for multilingual sites. Types and Views will change all this! Update – Types and Views are ready. Get Types from the WordPress plugin repository. For Views, go to [...]

We’re Looking for a Great Graphics Designer

August 16th, 2011 by Amir

We received great applications. Thanks for everyone who contacted us. This position is closed for now. We’re in the midst of a new major project and want to come out with a polished and beautiful product. For that, we need a graphics designer, to accompany the project. The work can start right now, but we [...]

Vote on Features for WPML 2.4.0

August 9th, 2011 by Amir

With WPML 2.3.4 out, we’re starting work on WPML 2.4.0. As always, we have more ideas for features than time to build them, so I’d like to hear your voice before we choose what’s in and what’s out. First, the “big picture”. Our goal is to make it easier for you to build multilingual websites. [...]

Alternative Repo for Commercial Plugins and Themes

June 28th, 2011 by Amir

Back in the days when WordPress introduced plugins and themes, a centralized repository was the best thing imaginable. However, the WordPress ecosystem has evolved and a single repository no longer fills all needs. Is it time to open the doors for commercial repositories? Today, many quality themes are commercial. Plugins are following this path. What [...]

WPML is Looking for Expert Developers

May 29th, 2011 by Amir

We’re getting more and more requests for paid custom work and are looking for help with these jobs. Are you interested? Every week we get a fair number of requests for paid programming work. These jobs range from several weeks of full-time work, to a couple of hours of PHP+CSS tweaking. We’d love to help [...]

Introducing Our Go-Global Program

April 29th, 2011 by Amir

Wouldn’t it be nice if life was easier? This is exactly the purpose of our Go-Global program – to make the lives of web developers easier by giving making themes and WPML more compatible. Most sites are built on theme frameworks. Modern themes are complex things with tons of functionality and gadgets. WPML is pretty [...]

Shopp Multilingual Alpha Version

April 20th, 2011 by Amir

After months of work, we’re finally ready with the first testing version of Shopp Multilingual. The plugin that allows running multilingual Shopp sites with WPML. The plugin page includes usage instructions and the download link. In this post, I want to explain how it actually works. Running a multilingual e-commerce site is a bit of [...]