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Wordpress Global Translator Plugin

Global Translator is a free and open source Wordpress Plugin which is able to automatically translate your blog in the following different languages:
English, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Arabic, Russian, Greek, Dutch, Norwegian, Bulgarian, Czech, Croat, Danish, Finnish, Hindi, Polish, Rumanian and Swedish.
The number of available translations will depend on your blog language and the translation engine you will chose to use.
The most powerful features which Global Translator provides are:

• Four different Translation Engines: it has the ability to provide the translations by using Google Translation Engine, Babel Fish, Promt, FreeTranslations.com
• Search Engine Optimized: it uses the permalinks by adding the language code at the beginning of all your URI. For example the english version on www.domain.com / mycategory / mypost will be automatically transformed into www.domain.com / en / mycategory / mypost
• Fast Caching System: a built-in cache is provided in order to reduce the online connections to the translation engines
• Fully configurable layout: you can easily customize the appearance of the translation bar by choosing between a TABLE or DIV layout for the flags bar and by selecting the number of translations to make available to your visitors

If to want to have the latest news and updates delivered directly to you, to stay up to date you could decide to subscribe to my latest post or to my comments. You could also evaluate to receive the updates by email: see at the "SUBSCRIPTION" section on the sidebar.

IMPORTANT: The daily receive about 30/40 messages containing comments and suggestions or support requirements about Global Translator and I can not publish all of them, but I guarantee that I'll read try to reply by email to all of them.

Download
Latest version (21 July, 2008): global-translator-0.9.1.zip

I've spent a lot of time writing this code and supporting it.
If you derive some benefit from this code, please consider showing your gratitude in a more tangible way. Thanks!

Previous versions
May 10, 2008: global-translator-0.9.zip
Apr 13, 2008: global-translator-0.8.zip
Feb 2, 2008: global-translator-0.7.1.zip
Jan 28, 2007: global-translator-0.7.zip
Aug 31, 2007: global-translator-0.6.2.zip
Apr 17, 2007: global-translator-0.6.zip
Dec 23, 2006: global-translator-0.5.zip
Dec 09, 2006: global-translator-0.4.1.zip
27 Nov, 2006: global-translator-0.2.zip
Aug 20, 2006: global-translator-0.1.zip

The number of the available translations depends on the your blog's language; if your blog is written in english then 13 translations will be available for you!

Requirements

Global Translator has been tested on Wordpress 2.0 .*, 2.1 .*, 2.2 .*, .* 2.3, 2.5 and 2.6.

Installation

• Upload the folder "global-translator" into your "wp-content/plugins"
• Log in to Wordpress Administration area, choose "Plugins" from the main menu, find "Global Translator", and click the "Activate" button
• Choose "Options-> Global Translator" from the main menu and select
  your blog language and your preferred configuration options then select "Options Update."

Upgrading

• Uninstall and remove the previous version and follow the installation instructions.

Configuration

• If your theme is widged-enabled, just choose "Presentation-> Widgets" from the administration main menu
  and drag the "Global translator" widgets on the preferred position on your sidebar.
  If your theme is not widgetized, just add the following php code (usually to the sidebar.php file):

    if (function_exists ( "gltr_build_flags_bar")) (gltr_build_flags_bar ();) 

  After this simple operation, a bar containing the flags which represents all the available translations for your language will appear on your blog. Check my blog for an example (on the sidebar) or take a look to my Youtube Video Downloaders blog.

Uninstallation

• Log in to Wordpress Administration area, choose "Plugins" from the main menu, find the name of the plugin "Global Translator", and click the "Deactivate" button

Bug Submission

• Bug submission is an important aspect of many Open Source projects, and submitting bugs correctly increases the chances of the developer finding and fixing any problems that may arise.
  If you want to submit bug issues, please use the Contact form and remember to specify the following information:
  -- The version of the plugin you're using
  -- A full description of the problem (and the error message if available)
  Please do not submit bugs or support requests as comments otherwise the discussion threads risk to become confusing.
  Alternatively you can also start a new topic here.

Changelog
0.9.1

• Added file extension exclusion for images and resources (they do not need to be translated)
• Activated Prompt New Configuration
• Fixed issue with little Portuguese translation
• Fixed Swedish, Arabic and Czech flags icons (thanks to Mijk Bee and Nigel Howarth)
• Added new (and better) event-based system cache invalidation

0.9

• Added support for 10 new languages for engine Google Translations: Bulgarian, Czech, Croat, Danish, Finnish, Hindi, Polish, Rumanian, Swedish, Greek, Norwegian
• Updated flags icons (provided by famfamfam.com)

0.8

• Updated Prompt Engine
• Added experimental translation engines ban prevention system
• Improved caching management
• Improved setup process
• Fixed a bug on building links for "Default Permalink Structure"

0.7.1

• Fixed bug "Call to a member function on a non-object in /[....]/ query.php."
  It happens only on certain servers with a custom configuration PHP
• Fixed bugs on building links for "Default Permalink Structure"

0.7

• Added two new translation engines: FreeTranslation and Promt Online Translation
• Added USER-AGENT filter in order to prevent unuseless connections to the translation services
• Added support for Default Permalink Structure (ie: "www.site.com/?p=111")
• Added widgetization: Global Translator is now widgetized!
• Fixed some bugs and file permission issues
• Excluded RSS feeds and trackback urls translation
• Fixed some problems on translated pages

0.6.2

• Updated in order to handle the new Babelfish translation URL. (Thanks to Roel!)

0.6.1

• Fixed some layout issues
• Fixed URL parsing Bugs

0.6

• Fixed compatibility problem with Firestats
• Added the "gltr_" prefix for all the functions names in order to reduce naming conflicts with other plugins
• Added new configuration feature: now you can choose to enable a custom number of translations
• Removed PHP short tags
• Fixed some issues for Babelfish translation
• Added alt attribute for IMG flags
• Added support to BabelFish Engine: this should help to solve the "403 Error" by Google
• Added my signature to the translation bar. It can be removed, but you should add a link to my blog on your blogroll.
• Replaced all the flags Images
• Added help messages for support cache
• Added permalink automatic update system: you do not need to re-save your settings permalinks
• Fixed many links replacement Issues
• Added hreflang attribute to the flags bar links
• Added id attribute to <A> tag for each flag link
• Added <DIV> tag for the translation bar
• Added support for the following new languages: Russian, Greek, Dutch

0.5

• Added BLOG_URL variable in order to correctly handle a "Blog address" different from the "Wordpress address"
• Improved URL replacement
• Added caching support (experimental): the cached object will be stored inside the following directories:
  "[...]/ Wp-content/plugins/global-translator/cache. "
• Fixed Japanese support (just another bug)

0.4.1

• Better HTTP request will be sent to Google Translation Services
• Bug fix: sometimes the translated page also contains the original page (appended)

0.4

• The plugin has been completely rewritten
• Added permalinks support for all the supported languages
• Added automatic blog links substitution in order to preserve the selected language.
• Added Arabic Support
• Fixed Japanese Support
• Removed "setTimeout (180); call: it is not supported by certain servers
• Added new option which permits to split the flags in more than one row

0.2/0.3

• Added localized tooltips on the flags
• Added language configuration section on the administration area.

0.1

• Initial release

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