Transposh - Breaking language barriers

The transposh.org wordpress plugin showcase and support site

Version 0.4.0 – Happy new integrations

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Transposh updatesHello 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.