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Re: Bunny’s Language Linker: New WordPress Plugin

Thomas — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:48:29 -0000

Hello Stephanie,

found your blog through googlewebmastercentral. Starting to localize my fresh Wordpress website thought to go with the plugin WP_Multilingual from Oleg at http://made.com.ua/multilingual/ localizing also the Wordpress theme.
To work on .po files there is a brandnew plugin at http://www.code-styling.de/deutsch/entwicklunge...

So the BIG work is to prepare the theme with the variables for the string.

Re: Bunny’s Language Linker: New WordPress Plugin

alank — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:56:53 -0000

I'm interested in developing a way to use display:block to provide bilingual content on the same page in wordpress. A cookie setting indicating language chosen would activate the area that contains content in the chosen language.

It is easy to do this on a web page, but within wordpress, it is a challenge, I think. Have you ever considered this multilingual approach before?

Re: Bunny’s Language Linker: New WordPress Plugin

Stephanie — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:47:19 -0000

Quick hack to make it work in posts, too (but be careful, you will have to copy-paste everything after the en/ or fr/ -- including the date -- for example, "archives/2007/12/28/bunnys-language-linker-new-wordpress-plugin/" for this post). Add the following code at the end of the plugin somewhere:

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add_action('dbx_post_sidebar', 'bll_add_slug_boxes');

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Re: Bunny’s Language Linker: New WordPress Plugin

Andrea Vascellari — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:30:43 -0000

You’ve been wanting to write this plugin for ages and I’ve been wanting to find a plugin like this for ages!

Well done!

About posts...like Leonid said it would be nice to extend it to posts too but on the other hand we need to keep in mind translation blogging issues...pretty challenging huh?! I'm sure you will come up with something in the next releases! (don't get me wrong I really love this plugin!)

Stephanie I wish you a successful 2008 + keep up the great work!

Andrea

Re: Bunny’s Language Linker: New WordPress Plugin

Peter Lurie — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 10:45:59 -0000

Hi!

Nice new alternative. I actually have2 clients who indeed DO translate everything (Pages & Posts), so a post-capability would be great!

Brava, Stephanie!
Peter

Re: Bunny’s Language Linker: New WordPress Plugin

Stephanie — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 05:22:08 -0000

Hi Leonid,

I was thinking about using a drop-down -- I guess it makes more sense.

About posts... It would only really be possible to easily implement for single post pages. And then... we bump into one of the issues with "translation blogging": I don't think it's the best way to blog in more than one language. But well, if people want to translate everything they write, I guess it's not my place to stop them, is it?

Will keep your comments in mind for the next release.

Re: Bunny’s Language Linker: New WordPress Plugin

Leonid Mamchenkov — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 03:16:52 -0000

Good job!

Two suggestions:

Make the page selection a dropdown with available pages, not a textfield. Similar to the way the Page Parent is selected.

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Make the plugin work with posts too.

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With the above to points implemented, it'll be a killer plugin for all of us having (or thinking about having) blogs in multiple languages. :)