Automatically translates your blog in 48 different languages!
Author: | Davide Pozza (profile at wordpress.org) |
WordPress version required: | 3.6 |
WordPress version tested: | 4.4.* |
Plugin version: | 2.0.2 |
Added to WordPress repository: | 02-02-2008 |
Last updated: | 12-01-2016
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
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Rating, %: | 56 |
Rated by: | 11 |
Plugin URI: | http://www.globaltranslatorplugin.com |
Total downloads: | 636 993 |
Active installs: | 900+ |
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FAQ
Installation Instructions
- Upload the folder “global-translator” to the “wp-content/plugins” directory.
- Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
- 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