Transposh - Breaking language barriers

The transposh.org wordpress plugin showcase and support site

Version 0.5.2 – Improved lang attribute support

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This version emerged from a few requests by multilingual blogger (especially bi-linguals). This version allows suggesting the original language for a phrase (other than the default) using the html lang attribute.

The paragraph/phrase marked with a different language than the original would be left intact when the target language equals the language marked, but will be translated in other languages (even in the default language – when such support is enabled).

For example, the following phrase is written in Hebrew and surrounded with a span with lang=he attribute, if you’re reading it in another language, you will be able to read it in that other language (English included).

Hello you guys, in what language are you reading this paragraph?

It is now also possible to use the only_thislanguage class to mark a certain paragraph to appear only to readers in given language. A change in behaviour for this version is that now, the translate default version configuration option will only be used for non default marked paragraphs (and posts, see below regarding theme patches).

A patch would be provided to the default theme (didn’t decide if we’ll wait till version 3 of wordpress) that will enable marking a certain post’s original language, we’ll keep you posted.

Hope you enjoy this version.

Version 0.5.1 – Database improvements

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This new version solves a very old problem with translating phrases longer than 255 characters. This change did not sacrifice speed, but actually enhanced it with a fine tuned index to match. By working on the database code we have also discovered a way to make the plugin perform much faster (mainly when APC caching was not used) where we now group many translation queries to the database into a single query.

A smaller bug with translation textarea tags was also solved thanks to timo.

Like always – looking forward for your feedbacks.

Version 0.5.0 – Back up

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Today we have released v0.5.0 which is a relatively major change to the plugin as it offers two features that were requested by many.

The first one is the inclusion of a backup service inside the plugin. You can choose between either manually backing up, having the backup done for you daily or allowing the backup to happen live. Backup is only done for human translations, and in the live backup mode, the plugin simply sends the new translation to the backup service.
This backup service runs on top of the google appengine infrastructure, so its quite fast and scalable.

The second feature is the mass translate facility, now included in the transposh settings page. You can just hit the “Translate All Now” button and every page and post will be translated for you, slowly but surely. Note that the translation is done on the client side, and not the server side and with sufficient latency so there is no fear of your server abusing the automated translation service.

The next releases towards the 0.6.0 version will focus more on the user (translator) experience and multi-lingual blog wrtiting integrations.
Your ideas are always welcomed, just comment here or go to trac.transposh.org.

Hello World, one year later.

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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!