{"id":7427,"date":"2011-04-29T08:21:17","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T08:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpml.org\/?p=7427"},"modified":"2011-04-29T08:21:17","modified_gmt":"2011-04-29T08:21:17","slug":"introducing-our-go-global-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpml.org\/th\/announcements\/2011\/04\/introducing-our-go-global-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Our Go-Global Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Wouldn&#8217;t it be nice if life was easier? This is exactly the purpose of our Go-Global program &#8211; to make the lives of web developers easier by giving making themes and WPML more compatible.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Most sites are built on theme frameworks. Modern themes are complex things with tons of functionality and gadgets. WPML is pretty complex too.<\/p>\n<p>While we do our best to make WPML compatible with every theme, it&#8217;s not always possible. 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It&#8217;s great for web developers and for end-users.<\/p>\n<h2>How It Works<\/h2>\n<p>This program is intended for developers who distribute themes. These can be either free or commercial themes.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll take the theme from the author, install it on a test server and go through every feature. Sometimes, we need a bit of guidance from the author to see that we&#8217;re covering all features.<\/p>\n<p>When we&#8217;re happy, we add it to our <a title=\"Theme Compatibility\" href=\"https:\/\/wpml.org\/documentation\/theme-compatibility\/\">theme compatibility<\/a> page. This means that the theme is 100% safe to use on multilingual sites. 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