Themes

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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)

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 [...]

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 [...]