Archive for category General Messages
Version 0.6.3 – GetText Integration
Posted by ofer in General Messages on September 1, 2010
GetText makes translation easier
This new version has two major changes and lots of bug fixes included.
The most important change is the integration of the plugin with the WordPress GetText system, which is the way WordPress (and some themes and plugins) provide localized versions of themselves. This is done with a couple of files (called .po/.mo files because of their extensions) that includes a list of translated strings that that software include.
What Transposh now does is to utilize said files, so if you have the files that translate WordPress to Spanish, they will take precedence and Transposh will use the files to make the translation of the interface to Spanish. Why is this better? there are a few reasons, one is that sometimes it enables translations where they were previously impossible, another is that the translation is human based and deemed more accurate, and the last is that it can clear ambiguity especially in short strings such as month names and day abbreviations.
How to get the .po/.mo files, and more information about how this work can be found at http://trac.transposh.org/wiki/UsingGetText.
This feature also includes a rewrite of the in-memory caching system of the plugin, which now supports xcache and eaccelarator in addition to the previous versions APC support. This version uses a more compact representation of the data which improves performance and reduce memory usage.
More fixes in this version:
- Tags from the tag cloud will now be translated with mass translate
- Fix for the sneaky “not a valid plugin header” issue, if you get “Default” listed twice in your widget selection settings, please delete the widgets/tpw_deafult.php file
- Fix for MS translate tendency to add an extra space to translation result
- Fixed bug with list with flags css widget preventing the view of flags
We have also changed this site layout a bit so you can see the development feed and changes in a more real time fashion.
Waiting for your feedbacks on this version.
Update: A bug was discovered when using the plugin without caching, if you have repeat translations, or you can’t see translations previously made, please reinstall the plugin from wordpress.org, the plugin there is now fixed. Thanks Nicholas for reporting this.
Version 0.5.5 – Buddypress Support
Posted by ofer in General Messages on June 18, 2010
Did you arm your vuvuzelas yet for the wordpress 3.0 release? Now you can do that and enjoy the fact that the latest transposh plugin for wordpress offers support for the new wordpress, and as a bonus, support for buddypress. This support for buddypress now means that urls generated and answered by it will now be translatable.
More changes include additional support for conditions that made the UI unworkable, when for example jQuery tools was used with some plugin or theme, now – we are able to make it work.
Like previously since a new major version of wordpress is out, we are dropping official support for the older wordpress 2.8 version, the plugin should still function but it will not be tested and patched for that version and we recommend that you upgrade.
As always – we want to hear you out, what features you want? and which team will win the world cup? just drop your comments here.
Version 0.5.4 – Quick Fixes
Posted by ofer in General Messages on June 14, 2010
A few days ago we silently released 0.5.4 which fixed a few bugs discovered in 0.5.3, mainly with the ajax and some edge cases with url translation. If the previous version works ok for you, there’s really no need to upgrade.
However – take the note, bugs opened on our trac (trac.transposh.org) are the ones that we are able to resolve fastest.
Enjoy this version and let us know what you think.
Version 0.5.3 – Ability to translate URLs
Posted by ofer in General Messages on June 1, 2010
This new version allows urls on the site to be translated to given target languages. We would like to thank Hans from Cosmedia (a website about cosmetic surgery and treatments) for sponsoring the work done on this feature, as well as sponsoring a patch to support the custom permalinks plugin. If you are missing a feature, create a ticket for us at the development site and we’ll add it to our todo list. If you want to help us, sponsoring a feature development will help us make it happen faster, and the community to get a more complete product.
There are also further improvements included such as the fact that comments made at languages that are different than the default one are marked as such and become translatable at the default language (you need to mark the translate default language option in the settings), better support for wordpress super cache plugin, and a small upgrade in the jQueryUI version used that helps with wordpress 3.0 coming support.
Last item on this notice agenda is that we want you to know that we have a page on our development site where we maintain third party plugins compatibility list (with patches if required). On our wiki plugin support matrix page, as its a wiki, just create a user on the site and feel free to edit and improve this.
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!
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.
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.
Translation can drive traffic to your site
Posted by ofer in General Messages on September 19, 2009
We have received information (and a nice picture) from Mike Jan from iPhone bashing site.
Bash.ch traffic jump after transposh filter install
Transposh aims to make your site much more accessible to others, which naturally includes search engines. This in turn allows more users to get to your site and find your content (even if originally it was written in a language they can’t understand). This site serves as a perfect example, originally written in German, when its great content became translated (and therefor much more available) its reach skyrocketed 
We welcome others to share their own stories on comments to this post, have you experienced similar success? Nothing at all? What do you feel is still missing? We’re always happy to hear.
CSS sprites coming
Posted by ofer in General Messages on July 9, 2009
The next version, which is coming at the end of next week will include support for css sprites for the flag widget. This have advantages in terms of speed and number of requests made to the web server. The code is already active on this site and we would appreciate that you let us know of any issues you encounter on the client side (non standard browsers – IE6, etc).
Anyone that want to take the code for a spin, is more than welcomed to contact us to get the pre-release code.
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