How To Translate Your Blog Into Multiple Languages
A few days back, Dorota asked me to share the trick of those flags under this blog title. So here you are the Wordpress plugin.
This plugin initially developed by Scott Hough. The original translation service used was Google Translate. But I was disappointed by the frequent errors thrown by Google Translate. Another bug was, you cannot translate more than once. To translate into other language, you need to go back to the original page and click different flag.
Requirements:
- Your blog must be written in English. This is because only this language can be translated into many languages by Babel Fish.
- You are using Wordpress 1.5 and above. It’s tested in Wordpress 2.1 (this blog (^_^)v )
- You have access to install the plugin
Installation and Usage Guide:
- Extract the zip file, upload the wp-translate directory to your plugins folder, usually wp-content/plugins/
- Activate the plugin on the plugin screen.
- Add <?php translate(n); ?> to your template where you want the flags to be displayed. n can be either 1 or 2. 1 is for a vertical display. 2 makes it horizontal.
For non Wordpress user, you can still use this plugin provided your Web Server supports PHP. To do so, please follow this steps:
- Extract the zip file
- Edit wp-translate.php which is located in wp-translate directory
- At line 103, replace $img_loc = get_settings(’siteurl’) . ‘/wp-content/plugins/wp-translate’; with $img_loc = ‘/wp-translate’;
- Save the file
- Upload the wp-translate directory to your root folder.
- In the page you want the flags to be displayed, put <?php include_once(realpath($_SERVER[’DOCUMENT_ROOT’]).’/wp-translate/wp-translate.php’); ?> in the first line of the file.
- Add <?php wptranslate(n); ?> anywhere you want the flags to be displayed. n can be either 1 or 2. 1 is for a vertical display. 2 makes it horizontal.
If you like this plugin, please link-back to this post, or add me to your blog-roll. Would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Having problem with installing the plugin? You have ideas for the plugin? Post a comment and I will try my best to help you.
Download:
Sodeve’s WP-Translate 2.1
Update: 19 May 2007
Users of this plugin:
- Myself (^_^)v
- Founders Cafe
- Your Blog?
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17 Comments to “How To Translate Your Blog Into Multiple Languages”
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Jimmy
Posted: May 19th, 2007 at 2:26 pm1Thanks for the plugin!
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Posted: May 19th, 2007 at 2:32 pm2OH and I also added you to my blogroll. Thanks for the info
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Hardono Arifanto
Posted: May 19th, 2007 at 4:50 pm3cheers (^_^)/
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Cesar
Posted: May 19th, 2007 at 11:47 pm4Hi!
first of all, Thank you for your work
you told us here about an automatic translation. I have checked the spanish version but it is unsatisfactory.I am looking for a tool that allow me transalate a blog.
I think this technique is good for informal blogs. In my case I will be looking for something more accurate since I need a News blog in three different languages.
if it is helpful, drupal with the modules Localizer and Blog, allows translation of blogs in different language (but not automatic as your variation)
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Posted: May 20th, 2007 at 3:04 am5Hi Cesar.
Actually there are other kinds of manual translation (you need to write your posts in two or more languages).
If you know other free translation service which provide better translation compared to Google Translate/Altavista BabelFish, please share it with us. I will incorporate it here.
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huZmid
Posted: May 20th, 2007 at 10:02 pm6Hi! glad u enjoyed the video and at the same time be the first person from mybloglog to appear at the recent readers widget which I have just added to my blog.
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Larry Keiler
Posted: May 21st, 2007 at 9:26 am7This is a very cool plugin. But I’m not very tech-oriented. Does it work on Blogger?
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max
Posted: May 24th, 2007 at 1:51 am9online translators are not perfect. theyre good at getting the gist of a story. but it fails to catch the nuances of the culture and sometimes even the obvious. i use google to double check my practice blog entries and that too contains many mistakes.
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anuradha
Posted: May 30th, 2007 at 3:39 pm10I downloaded wp-translate and when i activated this plugin, iam getting error message “Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error” can you help me how to resolve this
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Posted: Jun 2nd, 2007 at 2:49 pm11Hi Anuradha,
It’s strange that you experience such error. As myself and Jimmy able to install it without any issues.
May I know which hosting company are you using? Which Wordpress version are you using?
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Posted: Jun 4th, 2007 at 5:20 am12I found out that it’s broken for Wordpress 2.2. Expect the patch soon.
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Pipedreamergrey
Posted: Jun 13th, 2007 at 12:39 pm14Thanks a ton for the plugin! I was loosing traffic without wp-translate after my upgrade. I do have a question, though. How would I append a text link behind each flag? It was simple with the original wp-translate plugin, but I’m not enough of a programmer to alter the javascript in your new version.
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vash
Posted: Aug 18th, 2007 at 12:14 pm15Hey man thanks for the plug-in im going to check it out but i noticed a typo in the wordpress walk thru. is what it says that gives me an error but in your read me file it has and that works for me thought i would let you know
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Posted: Aug 22nd, 2007 at 12:06 am16Cheers Vash… I believe the problem caused by the version of Wordpress you are using. There is one variable/function that overwritten by the plugin, thus causing error. (Frankly I forgot which one..haha.. should document it properly next time)
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Posted: Aug 22nd, 2007 at 12:09 am17@PipeDreamerGrey: I think you should open the .php source code. Change the parameter of the
tag. I’ve discussed about this exact parameter of IMG in http://sodeve.net/internet-explorer-is-the-blue-pill-firefox-is-the-red-pill/
