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It must be Beta season, because we have another one for you today. We’re ready with a new release (beta) for BuddyPress Multilingual. This release improves compatibility with the current BuddyPress (today, it’s 1.5.3.1). It fixes a number of bugs and feature gaps that opened since our last release. To try this, download the current [...]

There’s a nagging bug in WPML 2.4.2, which drove us half crazy too. It’s fixed now and you can get the updated version in WPML 2.4.3 Beta 3. The bug caused the permalinks preview box to display incorrect URLs in certain cases. It’s a long story, full of drama and boring SQL. The bottom line [...]

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, [...]

Everyone loves faster sites. Speed is important to human visitors as well as search engines and it’s certainly worth spending time on, to optimize. Here are a few tips that can make your multilingual site faster. Speed and performance optimization are an endless tunnel. No matter where you are, there’s always room for improvement. There [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

We got a lot of requests to allow Views to work properly with any custom fields, regardless of which plugin they were created with (or no plugin at all). Well, please welcome Custom Fields Shortcodes. Custom Fields Shortcodes lets you insert shortcodes for any custom field, regardless of how it was created. With this, you [...]

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 [...]

A few days ago, we added Hebrew translation for WPML.org. The challenge was less about adding the translations more with making WPML.org theme display it correctly in right-to-left. Daniel (our support manager) wrote this post to explain what he did to add RTL support to our theme. These were the main challenges we faced: Swap [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

WPML includes full support for untranslated content, using the new Content Duplication feature. It also lets you translate custom fields using a Visual WYSIWYG editor. Displaying Untranslated Content It turns out that displaying untranslated content across different languages is not as simple as you’d think. WPML 2.4.2 supports this by allowing you to duplicate that [...]

The Mines Abad has created a useful plugin that removes the ‘category’ label from WordPress category URLs. You can get it from the WP plugins repository: WP No Category Base – WPML compatible After installing it, I can see the category URLs changing from: MYSITE/category/uncategorized/ to just: MYSITE/uncategorized/ Pretty neat! I tested it locally and [...]

We’re ready with a new beta release, with a highly requested feature – to allow displaying untranslated content in different languages. Remember how you’d like your blog posts to appear in different languages (but without accidentally switching language) and how you wished you didn’t have to duplicate stuff when translation is not needed? WPML 2.4.2 [...]

If you’re using BuddyPress, we have some good news for you. We just released a new version of BuddyPress Multilingual, updated for BuddyPress 1.5.1. This is a maintenance release, without new features, except that it works with the current BuddyPress version. This is still a major change, as many hooks and filters have moved, as [...]