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The Visual Editor in WordPress is great, but often, when we need to do some group-thinking, we turn to Google Docs. Wouldn’t it be great if these two got connected? Large sites have teams of writers and editors. When these sites are multilingual, they also have translators and proofreaders. Right now, WordPress has no real [...]

This has nothing to do with WPML, but I’m sure you’ll still like it. When I noticed what’s happening, I hardly believed it. Tried again and it really works. Chrome recognizes WordPress sites and uses their search feature! Here’s a video that shows how it works: This is what I’m doing: In Chrome, go to [...]

After 2 years and over 200,000 downloads, we’re turning WPML into a commercial plugin. I know this may not be the most popular move, but I can promise that the long-term results would be great for everyone. The Numbers We’ll be offering two versions: Multilingual Blog – $29 USD Multilingual CMS – $79 USD The [...]

We’re finally ready with the first fully working version of BuddyPress Multilingual. It’s a glue plugin which allows BuddyPress sites to run fully multilingual using WPML. BuddyPress sites include many components which are not language aware. This plugin changes it by adding language information to all of them. So, when you’re using WPMU, BuddyPress and [...]

While we’re working hard on WPML 1.7.0, I came across a thread in our forum, asking about multilingual support for e-commerce plugins (and an older thread here). It’s something that’s technically doable, but raises a good question – who’s going to pay the bill? This kind of work isn’t simple. To make an e-commerce plugin [...]

90% of WPML users run multilingual blogs and 10% use it with custom themes, using WordPress as CMS. What about all the great premium themes out there? Turning themes multilingual is too much work Premium WordPress themes are complex beasts. When folks purchase them, they’re ready to be used and provide tons of functionality. This [...]

WPML users had an excellent suggestion on making it easy to add new languages to existing sites. The idea is you can add new languages to your site, but everything in those languages stays invisible (to visitors) until you’re done with the translations. So, you can translate peacefully, without things looking half done or half-broken [...]

The iStudio Canada team built teamcopd.ca for the Canadian Lung Association. He used WordPress as a content management system and WPML for both its multilingual and navigational capabilities. Mike wrote the following post, which makes for great reading for anyone building full sites with WordPress and WPML. When working on the development of TeamCOPD, I [...]

On every release of WPML, we add new and cool features, fix bugs and… create new ones. This is very disturbing for us, as well as for the thousands who depend on WPML for their sites and we’ve decided to do something about it. The next step in WPML development is to add a full [...]

WPML is somewhat of a dual beast. It lets users translate their own sites and also offers professional translation. Today, I’d like to show how the professional translation works. How WPML’s professional translation works You write contents in your language. WPML sends posts and pages to ICanLocalize for translation. Translators work on ICanLocalize’s translation system. [...]

We’re finally ready with a first second testing version for WPML 1.3.0 – wpml_130_beta2. New in WPML 1.3.0 This release is a result of 6 weeks of development. It’s packed with new features and bug fixes. 1. Much improved usability The translation controls are now easier to use. Adding translations is done in a single [...]