Transposh - Breaking language barriers

The transposh.org wordpress plugin showcase and support site

Version 0.9.8.0 – Welcome Yandex

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There is more to the world than just Google Translate, there is also more to the world than just Bing Translate, apparently the ~150 million Russians are also doing great stuff, with Yandex, the most popular search engine in Russia.

Yandex supports many languages and produces different results than the other engines, it also specializes in languages that are spoken inside Russia such as Bashkir, Kirghiz and Tatar. Which we were now able to add to the list of languages, making the total number of supported auto-translated languages to a whopping 95!

The addition of Yandex also triggered changed in the way we deploy auto translations, so it is now possible to set the preference of the translation engine you would like to use.

We also had many (and we mean MANY) bugs fixed in this release, the change log will give you a good taste of this:

  • Yandex translator support added
  • Added the option to choose preferred translators order via drag and drop
  • Fix critical bug in translate post and translate on publish
  • Fixes in language selection UI (long language names)
  • Fix translation dialog not loading on first click
  • No longer expose Google keys externally
  • Fix the clean automatic translations in the utils tab
  • Support Bashkir, Kyrghiz and Tatar thanks to Yandex – Now supporting 95 Languages!
  • Added Swahili support to Bing
  • Reduced wait time between posts in translate all to 2 seconds
  • Fix shortcodes when wrapping a <p> tag
  • New Google icon
  • Fix WP_Widget deprecation call for wordpress 4.3
  • Minor fix for buddypress search integration
  • Fix some cases when https urls would not be rewritten
  • Fix rewrite support for three letter languages (currently only ceb)

Enjoy this version!

Version 0.9.7.2 – Shortened shortcodes

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The release train has finally picked up some speed, so we are proud to present this new version.
This version fixes the Google proxy again, this is happening because there are things that we really cannot control. But again, it works.

The other change is some fixes in shortcodes, you can read the much improved documentation in the following link:
Shortcode support in Transposh wordpress plugin

The main changes include the additional [tpe] shortcode which was added on top of the older [].
This code is used for self enclosing codes, where it is not necessary to close the tag, this is because a caveat in wordpress which causes
the code parsing to go berserk when mixing self-enclosed and closing shortcodes.

Also, there is no need to specify ="y" any more, so now [tpe mylang] will simply work and output: en

We urge you to upgrade, and enjoy this new version.

Version 0.9.7.1 – We have a new site

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First thing first, we would like to deeply thank Christopher from LPK Studio – http://lpkstudio.com/ for the new design of our website, this new website is finally up to today’s new web standards and should be visible on your mobile devices.

We really enjoyed working with Christopher on this, and he was extremely efficient, responsive and knew what we needed even before we asked 🙂

The new website is accompanied by a new release, nothing major here but a few bugs had gone the way of the dodo.

  • You may again use the + symbol inside translations
  • In some occasions, long paragraphs didn’t get the proper automatic translation from Google
  • Clearing old translations didn’t really work in 0.9.7.0

Enjoy the new version, and make sure you upgrade to this full version, its free.

 

Version 0.9.7.0 – Fixes and features all around, and SuperProxy alpha

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New version is here!

Please upgrade! Please, Please upgrade! Please with some sugar on top.

Why you should upgrade?

  • This version fixes the Google proxy support, which means that the automated Google Translation will work again.
  • This version updates the database format, which means wordpress 4.2 is supported, and you are expected to save ~40% of the current table size
  • We finally have an initial version of a backend translation editor, it will show you the strings real people have translated and allow you to quickly review and delete those.

How should you upgrade?

With some luck, you have the option to simply upgrade in your wordpress dashboard. It is recommended that you backup, as there’s no way back after the database upgrade has completed.

Any quirks, issues, problems – the contact us form is your friend.

What is that SuperProxy and why should you enable this?

SuperProxy is our new “Get rich quick” scheme. hmm…

Actually, we are using the end nodes to allow companies and individuals to have distributed access to the web. We will be paying for this traffic, so if you bought a hosting service and you have tons of data transfer you are not using, we will really appreciate that you enable this feature, it will support us and will probably be worth your while. We will publish more details about this as they become available.

And – to the rest of the changelog:

  • Woo integration fixes
  • Ditch the base64 encoding and reduce size of translatable pages
  • Widget fixes makes flags show correctly when wrong box sizing was used
  • Removal of front end progress bar, it was rarely seen or used and caused more trouble than it was worth
  • 3 new languages supported by bing
  • locale shortcode en_US
  • avoid translation of non text/json content fixes issues with some download addon plugins
  • Support the placeholder attribute, thanks Mark Serellis
  • Some support to the business directory plugin

So – Enjoy this version, and don’t be a stranger, let us know how it works for you.

Happy new year 2015 – What’s in store?

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Hello everybody,
Just wanted to do a quick writeup about what features are planned for the coming year:

  1. Backend string editor – this feature is about 80% complete by now, it allows you to see strings inserted to the database and perform some actions on those. Things that are now very hard such as removing all translations from a single translator will become a snap. This feature is expected for release in a few weeks.
  2. Support for widgets in uploads directory – custom widget writers have been complaining (and rightly so) about the fact that upgrading forces a reinstall of the widgets. The basic idea will be to allow some files to stay there and avoid that hassle. This might also open up the option of a downloadable widget directory which will allow us to give more choice of widgets without inflating the plugin file size.
  3. Frontend string editor – this will create some interface to the strings on the page, that while not being “wysiwyg” will allow some better workflow, mainly with regards to editing meta strings and other hidden strings, with some luck, ajax translations will also be editable after this upgrade. This one will take a few months to come.
  4. Numeral system support – this feature will automatically translate numbers from the European numeral system to Arabic and Hindi systems (and maybe vice-versa). Not a critical feature but a nice feature coming soon to a parser near you.
  5. WP Menu integration – not very keen on actually doing this, might happen, might not.

Any comments and ideas will be welcomed below, if they make sense we’ll add them to our workplan. If you really wish to promote a feature you may sponsor the coding, contact us via the form.

Happy new year!