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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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

I got this excellent tip from a user in our forum. It would come in handy if you just upgrades WordPress and are getting this error: You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page Now, that 100 million sites are upgrading to WordPress 3.0, there’s a good chance folks get bitten by it. [...]

While English is the default language for many websites, there are plenty other for which it’s not. Yes, believe it or not, some people manage just fine without English Until now, WPML gave these folks a hard time and made String Translation almost impossible for them. This developers release offers a fix. sitepress-multilingual-cms-179RC2.zip WPML’s String [...]

We’re ready with a new developers version, which includes fixes for recent (and old) bugs. sitepress-multilingual-cms-179RC1.zip Site-wide Activation for WordPress 3.0 MultiSite This is the first release which supports MultiSite properly. Until now, a series of problems prevented site-wide activation altogether. Now, superadmins can do a site-wide activation. Then, individual blog admins can configure WPML [...]

What’s the most urgently missing feature for you in WPML? Full MultiSite support, with site-wide activation and configuration? Support for E-Commerce plugins? Multilingual Menus? Better BuddyPress Multilingual? Or, maybe Views? – the most powerful CMS tool you can imagine Add to this support for WordPress 3.0 and legacy WordPress 2.9 and 2.8 and you get [...]

We’re ready with a new version of WPML, but just for brave testers. This new release adds support for WordPress custom post types. Until now, you could have pages, posts, tags and categories. And that’s it. Anything else would be a hack using custom fields. WordPress 3.0 opens great possibilities for using as a content [...]

WordPress is evolving and WPML is following. The WP core team is ready with the first Beta version for brave testers, so while you’re testing it, make sure to test it with WPML’s developers version as well. We’re going to handle the migration to WordPress 3 in two steps: Make all existing WPML functions work [...]

First, sorry about sending everyone Chinese SPAM today. It wasn’t actually SPAM, but rather the Chinese version of our blog posts. The reason this happened is because we activated W3 Total Cache on WPML. It looks like WPML and W3TC don’t play nice together, causing all this mess to happen. We’ve disabled it for now, [...]

Just about this time last year, WPML began, so I thought it would be fun to tell a bit about how that first year went by, where we are and where we’re going. It’s pretty easy to recall, because last year at the beginning of April, I was off with my family for Semana Santa [...]