Version 0.4.3 – Our wordpress plugin anniversary
Posted by ofer in General Messages on February 28, 2010
On
e year and 13,000 downloads later, we are happy to release version 0.4.3.
This version brings in more compatibility with some themes and better parsing of $ and % symbols.
Anyone wants to guess the number of downloads we will have next year?
Hello World, one year later.
Posted by ofer in General Messages on February 17, 2010
How quickly time flies when you are having fun. Today, exactly one year ago we have aired the first version of this site (which actually looked quite the same) to showcase our wordpress plugin. Lots of changes went on since that time (although we hoped it would go faster). But as the site celebrates this one year mark, we can’t but look with some pride at what we achieved and would like to use the opportunity to thank all of our developers, contributors, testers and users for their continued support and appreciation of our product.
Thanks everyone!
Version 0.4.2 – The answer?
Posted by ofer in Release announcements on January 26, 2010
What was the question? Anyone?
Maybe – Does this version support translation from Haitian? Yes
Maybe – Can Bing translate be used to generate auto translate? Yes
Maybe – Did you finish optimizations and reduced the script size to 1.5k when gzipped (with added functionality)? Yes
We hope you’ll enjoy this one as much as we do.
Version 0.4.1 – Faster for your clients
Posted by ofer in Release announcements on January 13, 2010
This new version includes the first part of optimizing the client side experience with transposh. Now, instead of loading libraries that might not be used, the plugin opts to load those upon demand. The first thing you can notice is that google translate api, microsoft translate api and jquery api are only loaded when they are really required. The script used by transposh has also been reduced in size and is now only 3kb of javascript. In the next step of optimization we will take out the edit interface part to a separate file.
Work was also done on optimizing the .css files, with a reduction in the number of inclusions so that under normal widget use there will only be one file used.
If anything breaks for you, on any browser or theme. Just let us know.
Unfortunately, this release won’t include support for jQuery 1.4 as there’s a bug in the jQuery UI tabs which prevents the upgrade at this point, We will probably upgrade once the next version of jQuery UI goes live.
Some insights to the upcoming release
Posted by ofer in General Messages on January 10, 2010
The next version is going to include some meaningful changes on the client side, mainly we have switched to asynchronous loading of our script and on demand loading of other scripts used within (such as jQuery UI, Google Translate API, Microsoft Translate API and others).
The change means that the page loads much faster and it becomes more responsive. Also hangups that were caused by slow loading of the third party scripts (such as the one reported in this bug) will be eliminated.
This release might also include an update to jQuery 1.4 which has a much faster engine, and since it is planed for release on January 14th, we hope to release on the 15th.
The pre-release is already running on this site, so if you encounter any problems in translated pages, please inform us.
Version 0.4.0 – Happy new integrations
Posted by ofer in Release announcements on January 1, 2010
This new version provides integrations with two of the most popular wordpress plugins. The first, google-xml-sitemaps provides a way to create sitemaps for use with google and google webmaster tools, the integration creates for each url in the sitemaps additional urls for the translated pages. This integration needs a simple patch to be performed on the original plugin, read how in the FAQ, or contact us to receive the patched file. We hope that future versions of google-xml-sitemaps will include this patch by default.
The second integration is with wp-super-cache which provides a caching mechanism for wordpress, this plugin is not for the faint of heart and provides a strong caching mechanism in exchange for tons of problems on the way, installation is hard and integration is even harder. However, this integration provides this plugin user a simple change which delete the cached page upon translation action, this prevents translations from happening multiple times and from users to see non-translated content (and in the case of auto-translation, translating again and again).
If you have more plugins you want integration with, and you have ideas on how (and maybe some code), just drop a note here. And yes – happy new decade to us all!
————
Update 2010/1/3 – It appears there was an error with the patch instructions, the new instructions are updated on this site FAQ section (thanks myatus). The patch can also be directly downloaded from this link : sitemap-core-322-patched
Version 0.3.8 – Language Detection
Posted by ofer in Release announcements on December 20, 2009
This version adds the detection of languages for website visitors (based on the browser negotiation – geoip can be added if enough interest will be shown). It also supports the new `rel=canonical` in the new wordpress (2.9) which was released yesterday. The usual share of assorted bugfixes are also here. And again we want to thank Kevin Hart for his help.
This is the last version to officially support wordpress 2.7, as we would rather spend our limited resources on improvement than supporting old code base. For anyone using an old wordpress we have two suggestions: 1. upgrade. or 2. use an old transposh release. The plan for the future will be similar, once wordpress 3.0 will be out we will drop support for 2.8. Any comments on this will be welcomed.
Replytocom Redirector
Posted by ofer in General Messages on December 19, 2009
During working on the new features for transposh, we have stumbled upon an issue which we could fix. The issue was that many bots scanning this site scanned pages with the parameter “replytocom” which is quite useless. Apparently – this useless parameter has caused over 2GB of traffic for this site in the last 9 months.
We have taken the liberty to extract a few lines of code and create a plugin which fixes this. Now available at the wordpress plugin directory.
A small rant about the wordpress site, since the voting for plugins is anonymous, the plugin was voted down by someone, which we have no way to know who he (or she) is. Not with any reasons we can think of (After all, free plugin, to fix a specific problem, with no intentions, which just works). If we’ll put our hands on him…. 
Keep “trac” of our developments
Posted by ofer in General Messages on December 11, 2009
Hello there,
The best way to advance is with the help of the community, and we wanted to let everybody know what’s going on and what’s the best possible way to keep track on what we are doing.
- If you are a user and want to get quick support and get notified about new happenings, feel free to follow us on twitter.
- If you want to be more involved in the community, want to help others and brag about with your site using transposh, we now have a page on facebook.
- If you want to know what the developers are doing, know about coming features before they are released and generally like to live on the edge, follow our trac site trac RSS.
- If you just want to follow the announcements on this site, the RSS symbol (either below or at your browser address line) is your friend. You will get this feed in the language you are currently using.
Comments are always accepted too (and we try to get back as quickly as we can). If you have other suggestions/ideas/advices/witty post titles – just let us know.
Social
Follow us on twitter
Recent Comments