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Headway 3 and WPML for Drag and Drop Websites

April 23rd, 2012 by Amir

We’ve spent a good amount of time testing Headway 3 with WPML and I’m happy to announce that everything is working fine. I’d like to use this opportunity to tell you a bit about Headway – based on our recent experience. First, just to clarify. We’re writing about Headway because I think that it’s an [...]

Why We’re So Eager to Work with Theme Developers

May 26th, 2011 by Amir

Since making WPML a commercial plugin, we’ve been spending significant resources working with other developers on their themes and plugins. This gave WPML a huge boost in quality faster than we could ever do alone. You’d be surprised about how complex things can get. It’s very easy to keep testing and validating the same things [...]

Improve Theme Compatibility and Get WPML for Free

February 23rd, 2011 by Amir

We do our best to make WPML compatible with premium themes, but only people who know and use these themes can really test it all. Help us and get your free lifetime account for WPML. With dozens of theme development houses and hundreds of commercial themes, it’s impossible for us to test every theme configuration [...]

Multilingual Themes that Translate Well

April 23rd, 2010 by Amir

GetText allows translating texts in themes and plugins, but in order to work right, you must create texts that translate well. We’ll show you frequent mistakes and how to correct them. GetText is a GNU’s text localization package. It allows replacing text in one language with texts in another language. We’ve already talked about using [...]

Building a Company Site with Thesis and WPML

April 11th, 2010 by Amir

Intro In this guest post, Wolf-Dieter Grabner, tells about building a multilingual corporate site using WordPress, Thesis theme and WPML. Wolf-Dieter gives both the why and the how, which are equally interesting. It shows how WordPress is used as a time saving tool for both the web developer and the client. The Client SBA Roll [...]

Free Professional Translation for WordPress Themes

February 28th, 2010 by Amir

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. [...]

Video Tutorial – localizing themes using WPML

December 8th, 2009 by Amir

This tutorial shows how to translate your theme using WPML’s built-in translation interface. It works without any .mo files and you can edit translations from within WPML directly. The video (3 minutes)

Multilingual Atahualpa theme

August 18th, 2009 by Amir

I’m going to show how to use Atahualpa, by Bytes For All, for building multilingual WordPress sites using WPML. A theme for a multilingual WordPress site needs to have all strings wrapped in gettext calls, but it’s not quite enough. Using gettext in the theme allows it to display in a different (single) language from [...]

Themes for WordPress CMS

December 30th, 2008 by Amir

Continuing my ongoing discussion about using WordPress as a CMS platform, today I would like to discuss themes. One of the really great things about WordPress is the tremendous amount of themes that are available and how easy it is to install and try them out.  I admit to being somewhat of a theme junkie [...]