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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?
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.
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!
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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 0.3.9 – More flexibility
Posted by ofer in Release announcements on December 26, 2009
The new version includes two major features. The first is the ability to sort the languages on the widget, you can now put your default language first or move languages around in any way you like. Icons have appeared that tell you if the language is supported by bing and google and if the language is written form right to left. You can also switch between the original name of the language and its English name, so understanding which language is which becomes even cleared.
We have also moved some files around and enabled an ajax entry file, this makes the alternate post settings redundant (we hope, let us know if you find bugs) and makes things generally snappier. If you are used to just unzipping the new version over the old one, it is now safe to delete all files that are not in sub-directories (save for transposh.php) heck, we even recommend that…
Some more exciting features are planned for the next release, and if you want to keep informed. Follow our twitter stream…
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…. 
Version 0.3.7 – Feed that feed
Posted by ofer in Release announcements on December 6, 2009
This new version puts emphasis on correcting the RSS XML feeds. Settings such as GUID and language are now being correctly set. I would like to thank Kevin Hart for his help and support in nailing those issues. Other improvements are made to the parser which will remove some redundant phrases from being translated (such as [....]).
As always – see the full change log.
Version 0.3.6 – Search me if you can
Posted by ofer in Release announcements on December 2, 2009
This version adds a very nice feature, which we hope positions it even better when compared to alternative solutions. This is the ability to perform a search in the translated language on the translated pages. So now your translated content becomes much more available to your users.
We also dramatically improved the RSS feeds support in this version, and now links in the RSS properly link to the correct language. We would like to thank datapharmer for his help with this. We would also like to note, for all the users requesting google sitemaps integration, that RSS feeds are a good source for sitemaps on the google site, so you can add your new rss feeds and comment feeds and google might have better visibility.
Last small fix, we now also translate submit type buttons (good for the search form).
We hope you’ll enjoy this version – if anything is broken, just comment here, and please – use a mail we can reply to, otherwise we are unable to get back to you, which is a shame…
Ideas, bugs, praises are always welcomed.
Version 0.3.5 – Some major changes
Posted by ofer in Release announcements on November 26, 2009
This version is the one of the largest changes we have made so far. We would like to detail some of the changes here:
New features in this release
- Admin side automatic translation of posts upon publishing – this feature allows posts to be translated as quickly as possible, so the feeds and search engines will see translated versions
- New methods of posting to the sites – will allow more versatility in cases problems occurred in the past
There are some more bug fixes (read the change log) but more importantly this version is a major overhaul of the underlying architecture (more than 3,000 lines of diff), with more emphasis on software engineering schemes. For example, all code is now contained in objects (which will hopefully reduce namespace issues with other plugins) and options have been moved to a single location. We expect some rough edges here, so just inform us and it will be fixed asap.
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