Global Translator

Installation Instructions

1. Upload the folder “global-translator” to the “wp-content/plugins” directory.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
3. From the main menu choose “Global Translator” and configure your translation settings

2.0.2

• Improved speed on cache refresh actions

2.0.1

• Fixed flags bar refresh issue

2.0.0

• Plugin completely rewritten from scratch
• Integrated Yandex Translate APIs
• Better performances and translations thanks to translation enqueuing
• Up to 63 languages available

1.3.2

• Fixed url fragments cleaning

1.3.1

• Removed N2H Link
• Fixed regexp patterns

1.3

• Added new option “Not yet translated pages management”: you can choose between a 302 redirect and a 503 error on not yet translated pages
• Better flags layout on admin page

1.2.8

• fixed some 404 issues reported by Google WebMaster and related to bad parameters attached to the url (usg and rurl)

1.2.7

• Added 6 new languages

1.2.6

• Improvements on link cleaning
• default cache expire time switched to 15 days
• replaced 503 HTTP code (“Network Temporarily Unreachable”) with a 302 redirect on not yet translated pages in order to remove the warning messages on GooGle WebMaster Tool

1.2.5.1

• some fixes on the new cleaning system

1.2.5

• updated page cleaning system in order to prevent new Google updates on the HTML sources

1.2.4

• Fixed trailing slash issue
• Replaced 404 errors with 302 redicection for better SEO
• Other fixes and optimizations

1.2.3

• Fixed sitemap integration for blogs not installed on the root path
• Fixed encoding problems related to the introduction of the new Google APIs

1.2.2.1

• Hacked new Google URL structure
• Added support for older PHP versions

1.2.1

• Added seven new languages: Albanian,Estonian,Galician,Maltese,Thai,Turkish,Hungarian
• Improved caching performances
• Added Show/Hide button for statistics on options page
• Optimized connections to google translation engine

1.2

• Fixed Chinese (Traditional) translation

1.1.2

• New configuration feature: flags bar in a single image (based on contribution by Amir – http://www.gibni.com)
• Translated Portuguese languages array (Thanks to Henrique Cintra)
• Added Chinese (Traditional) translation
• Fixed “division by zero” error
• Fixed image map configuration error

1.0.9.2

• Better IIS url rewriting support
• Fixed Norwegian configuration
• Moved shared function to header.php

1.0.9.1

• Changed HTTP error for not yet translated pages from 404 to 503 (Service Temporarily Unavailable)

1.0.9

• Added 404 error code for not yet translated pages
• Added support for IIS rewrite rules (based on the usage of “/index.php” at the beginning of the permalink)
• other performances improvements

1.0.8.1

• little fix for cached pages count on options page

1.0.8

• general performance improvement
• added check for blocking nested translation requests (i.e. www.mysite/en/fr/…)
• fixed A tags rendering
• moved cache dir outside the plugin dir
• fixed options page access problem
• fixed trailing slash issue

1.0.7.1

• removed call to “memory_get_usage” on debug method because it is not supported
  by certain php versions

1.0.7

• Added cache compression
• fixed layout bugs
• fixed link building problem (internal anchors not working)
• Added 11 new languages to Google Translation Engine!

1.0.6

• Added new optional cache invalidation time based parameter

1.0.5

• Random User Agent selection for translation requests
• Hacked new Google block introduced on (27th of August 2008)

1.0.4

• Performances improvement in cache cleaning algorithm
• fixed the sitemap plugin detection function
• fixed javascript errors on translated pages

1.0.3

• Added Debug option on the admin area
• Added Connection Interval option on the admin area
• Added more detailed messages and info on the admin page
• Updated new Promt translation url
• Fixed some issues about cache cleaning for blogs not using the permalinks
• Added experimental sitemap integration

1.0.2

• Fixed cache issue with blogs not using the pemalinks

1.0.1

• Fixed tags issue with older WordPress versions (2.3.*)

1.0

• Improved cleaning system for translated pages
• New fast, smart, optimized, self-cleaning and built-in caching system. Drastically reduction of temporarily ban risk
• Added Widget Title
• Added 404 error page for deactivated translations

0.9.1.1

• Bug fix: Google translation issue

0.9.1

• Added file extension exclusion for images and resources (they don’t need to be translated)
• Activated new Prompt configuration
• Fixed little issue with Portuguese translation
• Fixed Swedish, Arabic and Czech flags icons (thanks to Mijk Bee and Nigel Howarth)
• Added new (and better) event-based cache invalidation system

0.9

• Added support for 10 new languages for Google Translations engine: Bulgarian, Czech, Croat, Danish, Finnish, Hindi, Polish, Rumanian, Swedish, Greek, Norwegian
• Updated flags icons (provided by famfamfam.com)

0.8

• Updated Prompt engine
• Added experimental translation engines ban prevention system
• Improved caching management
• Improved setup process
• Fixed a bug on building links for “Default Permalink Structure”

0.7.2

• Fixed other bug on building links for “Default Permalink Structure”
• Optimized translation flags for search engines and bots
• changed cached filename in order to prevent duplicates
• added messages for filesystem permissions issues
• updated Google translation languages options (added Greek and Dutch)

0.7.1

• Fixed bug “Call to a member function on a non-object in /[….]/query.php”.
  It happens only on certain servers with a custom PHP configuration
• Fixed bug on building links for “Default Permalink Structure”

0.7

• Added two new translation engines: FreeTranslation and Promt Online Translation
• Added USER-AGENT filter in order to prevent unuseless connections to the translation services
• Added support for Default Permalink Structure (i.e.: “www.site.com/?p=111”)
• Added widgetization: Global Translator is now widgetized!
• Fixed some bugs and file permission issues
• Excluded RSS feeds and trackback urls translation
• Fixed some problems on translated pages

0.6.2

• Updated in order to handle the new Babelfish translation URL.(Thanks to Roel!)

0.6.1

• Fixed some layout issues
• Fixed url parsing bugs

0.6

• Fixed compatibility problem with Firestats
• Added the “gltr_” prefix for all the functions names in order to reduce naming conflicts with other plugins
• Added new configuration feature: now you can choose to enable a custom number of translations
• Removed PHP short tags
• Added alt attribute for flags IMG
• Added support to BabelFish Engine: this should help to solve the “403 Error” by Google
• Added my signature to the translation bar. It can be removed, but you should add a link to my blog on your blogroll.
• Replaced all the flags images
• Added help messages for cache support
• Added automatic permalink update system: you don’t need to re-save your permalinks settings
• Fixed many link replacement issues
• Added hreflang attribute to the flags bar links
• Added id attribute to Tag for each flag link
• Added DIV tag for the translation bar
• Added support for the following new languages: Russian, Greek, Dutch

0.5

• Added BLOG_URL variable
• Improved url replacement
• Added caching support (experimental): the cached object will be stored inside the following directory: “[…]/wp-content/plugins/global-translator/cache”.
• Fixed japanese support (just another bug)

0.4.1

• Better request headers
• Bug fix: the translated page contains also the original page

0.4

• The plugin has been completely rewritten
• Added permalinks support for all the supported languages
• Added automatic blog links substitution in order to preserve the selected language.
• Added Arabic support
• Fixed Japanese support
• Removed “setTimeout(180);” call: it is not supported by certain servers
• Added new option which permits to split the flags in more than one row

0.3/0.2

• Bugfix version
• Added Options Page

0.1

• Initial release