Wordpress Global Translator Plugin

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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 in www.domain.com/en/mycategory/mypost Fast Caching System: new fast, smart, optimized, self-cleaning and built-in caching system. Drastically reduction of the risk of temporarily ban from 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 No database modifications: Global Translator is not intrusive. It doesn’t create or alter any table on your database: this feature permits to obtain better performances.

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: I daily receive about 30/40 comments and messages containing suggestions or support requests about Global Translator. I can’t publish all of them, but I guarantee that I’ll read all of them and I’ll try to reply by email to all of them.
Please remember also to read the official FAQ before asking for support.

Download
Latest version (27th of August, 2008): global-translator.1.0.5.zip

Iâ€™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
22 August, 2008: global-translator-1.0.4.zip
20 August, 2008: global-translator-1.0.3.zip
17 August, 2008: global-translator-1.0.2.zip
21 July, 2008: global-translator-0.9.1.zip
10 May, 2008: global-translator-0.9.zip
13 Apr, 2008: global-translator-0.8.zip
2 Feb, 2008: global-translator-0.7.1.zip
28 Jan, 2007: global-translator-0.7.zip
31 Aug, 2007: global-translator-0.6.2.zip
17 Apr, 2007: global-translator-0.6.zip
23 Dec, 2006: global-translator-0.5.zip
09 Dec, 2006:global-translator-0.4.1.zip
27 Nov, 2006:global-translator-0.2.zip
20 Aug, 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 2.3.*, 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 “Update Options“.

Upgrading

Uninstall and remove the previous version and follow the Installation instructions, but if you’re upgrading from 0.9 or higher version I suggest you to preserve the “cache” directory.

Configuration

If your theme is widged-enabled, just choose “Presentation->Widgets” from the administration main menu
and drag the “Global translator” widget 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 informations:
- the version of the plugin you’re using
- a full description of the problem (and the error message if available)
Please don’t 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
1.0.5

Hacked new Google block introduced on (27th of August 2008) Random User Agent selection for translation requests

1.0.4

Performances improvement in cache cleaning algorithm Fixed the sitemap plugin detection function Fixed javascript errors on translated pages

1.0.3

Added Debug option on the admin area Added Connection Interval option on the admin area Added more detailed messages and info on the admin page Updated new Promt translation url Fixed some issues about cache cleaning for blogs not using the permalinks Added experimental sitemap integration

1.0.2

Fixed cache issue with blogs not using the pemalinks

1.0.1

Fixed compatibility issue with older version of Wordpress

1.0

Improved cleaning system for translated pages New fast, smart, optimized, self-cleaning and built-in caching system. Drastically reduction of temporarily ban risk Added Widget Title Added 404 error page for deactivated translations

0.9.1

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

0.9

Added support for 10 new languages for Google Translations engine: 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 PHP configuration Fixed bug 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 (i.e.: “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 flags IMG 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 cache support Added automatic permalink update system: you don’t need to re-save your permalinks settings Fixed many link 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 directory:
“[...]/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 contains also 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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Pingback di Lo mejor de la semana - aNieto2K — 28 Agosto, 2006 #

Hello Davide, I like your plugin is fantastic.

which is your email? I want to speak with you of this plugin because I was writing plugin similar.

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Commento di cinefilo — 29 Agosto, 2006 #

I don’t seem to be able to get flags to appear on sidebar. Probably a syntax error on my part. Any help

Commento di joan — 1 Settembre, 2006 #

Joan, there was a little bug. Plese download it now and let me know if the problem has been solved. Thanks!

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I am not a programmer… it took me a while to understand that:

…adding the call to the function build_flags_bar ();… would mean this:

Maybe you should add this to your explanation, as I could not figure it out.

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Pingback di links for 2006-09-08 « Sanjeev.NET — 8 Settembre, 2006 #

For all of you who wonder about “Modified your template ones adding the call to the function build_flags_bar (); “. this is how you enter the code, plus some extra code that will make it ease for people to understand that need to click on the flag to translate:

Copy and paste this:

Translate This Page - Tradurre questa pagina - Diese Seite Ã¼bersetzen - Traducir esta pÃ¡gina - Traduire cette page - Traduzir esta pÃ¡gina - ã?“ã?®ãƒšãƒ¼ã‚¸ã‚’ç¿»è¨³ã?—ã?ªã?•ã?„ - ì?´ íŽ˜ì?´ì§€ë¥¼ ë²ˆì—í•˜ì‹ì‹œì˜¤ - è¿™å°†é¡µ

Have fun!

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Commento di Al — 9 Settembre, 2006 #

E’ possibile inserire la chiamata in un Text Widget per fare apparire la lista di bandierine nella sidebar senza dover editare il file sidebar.php? O magari addirittura “widget-tizzare” il plugin?
Thnx!