Transposh - Breaking language barriers

The transposh.org wordpress plugin showcase and support site

Version 0.9.1 – Improving constantly

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Translation Bring People Together
Translation Bring People Together

Should have posted earlier about 0.9.1 which is a rather nice version with some nice improvements. But we have waited for this extremely nice animation, made on Fiverr by an amazing animator, that happens to be related by blood to the team here 🙂

We have also created a nice Widget Gallery page, just go and see!

Other changes include:

  • Added some help inside the Admin interface for very common questions (keys – no, you don’t need keys by default)
  • Allow jQueryUI version to be overriden, resolving many conflicts (old themes, all sort of components with unsorted versions of jQuery and jQueryUI)
  • A fix when some bad plugins insert .css in an inappropriate way (this disabled the ability to see which languages were selecred)
  • Added the transposh_echo function – see our development site for documentation and usage
  • Fixes for widgets, easier inclusion with shortcodes, old dropbox fixes, ids removed
  • Adding touch punch to admin, allowing language selection on touch devices
  • Fixes for minor issues discovered since 0.9.0

What are you waiting for? Download the latest version now!

 

 

Version 0.8.5 – We support Lao too

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A frog and a mouse welcome Laos

Well, Google just announced on their translate blog that they will support Lao, the official language of Laos, so we have added the code required and did a quick release with support to this language, which is also supported by One Hour Translation.

The version is already out for a few days but the real problem with getting this post live was finding a picture. We are not quite sure it is the most appropriate picture, but at least it rhymes.

Enjoy this new version.

Version 0.8.4 – Professional human translation is here

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Professional work
Professional work
Less professional work
Less professional work

We are very proud to present this release of our plugin.

This version, in addition to normal enhancements and bug fixes, finally integrates professional human translation with a basic integration with OneHourTranslation.com professional translation service.


The way this works is the following:

  • Go to OneHourTranslaion.com and create an account
  • Use the account details generated and insert them to Transposh’s settings page
  • When using the translation interface, an admin (and only an admin) will see a “One Hour Translation queue” button
  • Pressing this button will add the phrase to a queue, another click will dequeue the item
  • 10 minutes after the last phrase was added a translation project will be generated on one hour translation
  • Give it an hour (or less from our experience) and the translations will appear on your site
  • Everybody is happy and you actually support the Transposh project (Yay!)

This is rather new, so if Murphy strikes, just contact us and we’ll do whatever we can to make things work.

Now, for the rest of this release:

  • Fixed flag of Swahili to Tanzania as noted by Ed Jordan
  • Lots of fixes to backup service
  • Fix for a parser bug when having translate in default language following a select element
  • Fixed XSS reported by Infern0_ (big thanks!)
  • For programmers: Added a global function to return the current language “transposh_get_current_language()“
  • Seems like Lybia has a new flag too 😉
  • Fixed widget IDs containing a backslash so that we’ll pass w3c validation
  • Updated jQueryUI to 1.8.23 to avoid conflict with jQuery 1.8 used by some themes
  • Portuguese (Brazil) translation by Amilton Junior

Our operators are waiting for your feedback, if you get a busy signal, try contacting us again!

P.S. This is the very first version to have passed 1,000 daily downloads, we are humbled.

Version 0.8.2 – 3 years, 66 languages, 1 wordpress

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I said 3 candles on that cake!

It has been three years (and three days, and thirty three hours) since the first version of Transposh plugin has been aired on the wordpress.org plugin repository.

Time surely flies.

This has been the first leap year (29th February) and a real leap year for Transposh. The plugin has been downloaded from the repository over 50,000 times this year and has made a steady growth of features and total number of languages supported. And today with the addition of Hmong Daw we are the first plugin to support a total number of 66 languages.

This was a really interesting (as in, have an interesting life) year for the automatic translation industry and plugins, where Google has nearly dropped their API support (only to switch to a pay model) while Bing imposed new limits. Transposh has successfully overcame those changes, while other plugins did not survive.

What does the future holds for Transposh? We are slowly boiling some new stuff, working on our vision to improve website translation, when things will be ready – they will be out. Meanwhile, your continued support is important to us, sometimes a simple email with “your plugin is great” drives us to continue. So if you believe we are doing well, drop us a line, if you think we should improve things, drop us a note, and if you think that we suck, we fail to understand why you have read this message up to this point 😉

Wishing ourselves a great 4th year, maybe it will end with a bigger cake 🙂

 

Version 0.7.4 – The springy version

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By Peter Kaminski http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterkaminski/66876135/
Anybody guess what the spring stands for?

This release comes in a bit late on our schedule. But it already broke our single day download record by crossing the 500 mark.

This release although small in nature does have some nice additions.

First, the default language set in Transposh now overrides the one that is set in the WP_LANG constant, this allows a WordPress MU installation in which every site can be managed in a different language on the backend. A feature which I enjoyed by finally allowing my kid to have his own personal blog in a language he can manage.

We have added a tp shortcode that enables to output the current transposh language, although it might not sound like much, this small additions allows displaying different images for different languages, you can read about it here.

An addition of a few constants in our parser code, now allow coders (not users) to change our parser behavior to break phrases on larger chunks, see the top of our parser.php for documentation.

More changes and bug crashing include:

  • Iframes included inside pages will now attempt to include proper language
  • Fixed bug with using the only=”y” parameter of the tp shortcode which made incorrect detections of source language further in parsing
  • Added German translation by Jenny Beelens from professionaltranslation.com

Enjoy this version, tell your friends about it, don’t tell your enemies anything, consult with your lawyers if you really want to and don’t forget the importance of your family.

PS: We know about the scheduled Google Translate API deprecation and the plugin will still work, details will be uncovered in future versions.