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by Ofer 3 Comments
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.
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.
by Ofer 15 Comments
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
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.
This version fixes some bugs, mainly the infamous NexGEN gallery bug (which might happen for other plugins using a similar method). Some performance tweaks are included, mainly for people using MSN translator (Did you notice they increased the number of languages they support?)
A new build system that we deployed in the development environment actually means that it will be easier to release the upcoming versions, and that they’ll be kept in sync with the source code repository.
If you want to know more about who we are and our future directions, Marco from Technology inside blog have conducted an interview with our own Ofer Wald. Nice piece of reading for anyone who’s interested and we would like to thank Marco for his patience and hard work.
by Ofer 12 Comments
We would like to thank Google for adding support for 9 new languages: Afrikaans, Belarusian, Icelandic, Irish, Macedonian, Malay, Swahili, Welsh and Yiddish. We have added support to our wordpress plugin which took a little while because of the following critical issue. What flag should we use for Yiddish? First thing we would like to say is that flags are changeable, just follow the FAQ and if you don’t like our choices, no one is forcing you.
After a short debate we have decided to give Yiddish the european union flag because of two reasons, one – the language originated there, not in any specific country and second – the flag does not stand for any specific country in a similar way to the language which can not be connected to any country. If anyone has better suggestions, we are open to hear them.
This release also follows a few weeks of silence, in which we have been quietly thinking and discussing new features, which we hope we’ll be able to release soon, any help and feedback will not only be appreciated but will also help us deliver a better product.