Transposh - Breaking language barriers

The transposh.org wordpress plugin showcase and support site

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…. 🙂

Version 0.3.7 – Feed that feed

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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.

Version 0.3.6 – Search me if you can

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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.