WordPress Plugin Version 1.1 (Latest): Automatic Machine Translation for Your Blog in Eight Languages - Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Korean and Chinese
By Angsuman Chakraborty, Gaea News NetworkFriday, June 10, 2005
Update:
This plugin has been superseded by Angsuman’s Translator Plugin Pro, which not only contains all the great features of this plugin but lot’s more. All the defects and enhancement requests of this plugin has been done in the pro version, it offers significantly improved performance by caching, provides better translation for asian languages like Chinese & Japanese and more.
Please get translator pro version here.
What’s New:
- Option to generate slimmer list of icons (maximum 5 icons in a row). Now you can use <?php create_translator_bar(true); ?> to create a slimmer version as can be seen in this site.
The default is to create a wider version with all the icons in a single row by using <?php create_translator_bar(); ?>Please refer to Configuration and Usage section for further details.
- Warning message was being generated, when php is running in safe mode, in earlier version. This has been rectified.
- Ability to revert to the original language (English) has been provided by adding an extra icon for English. It simply redirects to the original non-translated version of the blog.
Users can download one of two available versions. Download this if you prefer US Flag to represent English language and this if you prefer UK flag to represent English language. Both of them are otherwise identical. - Added width and height values to img tag.
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This plugin has been superseded by Angsuman’s Translator Plugin Pro, which not only contains all the great features of this plugin but lot’s more. All the defects and enhancement requests of this plugin has been done in the pro version, it offers significantly improved performance by caching, search engine optimized, provides better translation for asian languages like Chinese & Japanese and more.
Please get translator pro version here.
Note:
- The original version without an icon to revert back to English has been discontinued.
- Please please refer to the original post for full details on installation and usage.
October 26, 2010: 2:49 am
I couldn’t understand some parts of this article las Lindblad Organisation |
July 2, 2010: 4:10 am
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June 1, 2010: 8:10 am
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October 29, 2009: 2:56 am
A great article indeed and a very detailed, realistic and superb analysis of the current and past scenarios. I would like to thank the author of this article for contributing such a lovely and mind-opening article. |
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December 7, 2008: 9:56 am
Hmm, quand on voit le charabia de ce post, ça ne donne guère envie de faire appel à un traducteur automatique. Arrêtez de croire qu’une machine peut traduire correctement en trois secondes ce qu’une personne a mis des heures à élaborer dans des mots choisis et pesés… |
August 24, 2006: 12:14 pm
We will support it in the next major release (ver. 3) of the plugin along with few other foreign languages. The key challenge is providing an acceptable quality of machine translation. |
August 24, 2006: 8:58 am
My Blog is written in Spanish. Would this plugin do the same job if my blog is written in any other language than English? |
August 17, 2006: 7:37 am
[...] Angsuman’s Translator Plugin Pro replaces and supercedes the original popular Translator Plugin for WordPress and subsequent revisions. After the initial release and wide acceptance of our WordPress Translator plugin, we have spent enormous amount of time working out the kinks of different translator engines. We pre-process and post-process the translated data to ensure as closeness as possible to the original page content and layout. We have tried to provide you the best automatic machine translation within the limits of today’s machine translation technology and in many cases we have overcome and improved upon the translated output. We use multiple third-party translation services to provide you with the best possible machine translation. [...] |
August 10, 2006: 8:55 am
[...] Kudos and appreciation go to the plugin developer, Angsuman Chakraborty, who writes Simple Thoughts. You may want to stay tuned to Angusman’s blog, because he’s about to release a new, updated version of this plugin. [...] |
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July 17, 2006: 12:08 am
I have implemented it. Last few days have been very hectic as there was an attack against my server using a Mambo exploit. |
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July 16, 2006: 2:06 pm
Hi. Plugin looks great. Can i second the request of Reno (from Sept 2005) that some kind of URL changing/masking be implemented in the next release? If you could give me some tips on what functions to use etc i’ll start learning and give it a go myself - i can code but am a bit rusty on php. Cheers |
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July 11, 2006: 7:53 am
hi, will be in the 2.x Verson a Option to change the initial translating language? |
March 16, 2006: 3:05 am
[...] Update: A new version of the plugin has been released based on user feedback. [...] |
March 5, 2006: 8:43 am
[...] Altavista’s BabelFish lasted only one day on my site. Simple Thougts has a WordPress plugin which integrates nicely to my blog. As for the translations, they are provided by Google internally but I’m not sure they make my posts more readable. [...] |
February 28, 2006: 3:56 am
[...] The WordPress Translator plugin provides machine translations of your (english) WordPress blog in eight languages (Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Korean and Chinese). [...] |
February 1, 2006: 4:05 pm
When I use this plugin my translated pages have a lot of weird characters in them https://www.thediamondgames.com/wp-content/plugins/translator.php?l=de&u=https://www.thediamondgames.com/. I checked mysql and the collation on the post_contet field is utf8_general_ci. Does anyone know what causes this weird characters and how I can fix them. |
January 24, 2006: 9:21 am
[...] I have started working on Taragana’s Automatic Machine Translation Plugin Version 2. Here is an update on the progress. This is your chance to voice your requirements and priorities. No promises however. [...] |
January 22, 2006: 11:51 pm
[...] Just trying out Simple Thoughts’ Wordpress translator plugin. It provides automatic real-time machine translation of my blog entries (written in English). Right now it translates into eight different languages, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Korean and Chinese (Simplified). [...] |
December 30, 2005: 11:42 am
Excelente plugin, felicidades me encanta esta hermoso, pero …. mi idioma es el espanish. No habra opcion para que tambien traduzca blog´s escritos en espanish Saludos. |
November 3, 2005: 12:30 am
[...] Translator - This plug-in translates your blog to 8 languages. You’ll need to add a line of code to your sidebar (or wherever you want to flag icons representing and linking to the translation). Use < ?php create_translator_bar(); ?> to create a long bar of flag icons, and use < ?php create_translator_bar(true); ?> to create a stacked version of the icons that fits better into most sidebars. [...] |
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October 3, 2005: 1:14 pm
Further to my problem. I’ve resolved it. I finally noticed someone mention a 500 error (which is an Internal Server Error). Your script comes with the file mod’d to 666. Changing it to 644 resolved the problem for me. |
October 3, 2005: 10:28 am
[...] I just added the Simple thoughts translation plugin as you can see on the sidebar, it of course uses machine translation though so I’m sure it isn’t precise but my multi-lingual capabilities are not very good unless you’re talking about programming langauges so if anyone speaks one of the languages included can you take a quick gander for me to see how good of a job it does so I know if it is worth keeping or not? « What is the point of shrink wrap on DVDs? [...] |
September 26, 2005: 8:09 am
Can you please add the Russian Language?? Also please look at my site loststronghold.com, when the Japanese language is selected the site is broken. Any thoughts?? Thanks in advance |
September 14, 2005: 12:20 pm
Another good idea. No, I prefer non-htaccess solution. I am lately so swamped that I couldn’t take up the second version I promised. I promise (again) to complete it this weekend. I think I should charge for it which will give me more impetus |
September 14, 2005: 8:54 am
just wondering if there is a way to hide the big ‘nasty’ url to something like https://domainname.com/‘language’/ ? Would a fight with the .htaccess be in order? |
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