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Key learnings from launching TranslatePress, a WordPress multilingual plugin that anyone can use The WordPress plugin ecosystem is quickly becoming a very crowded space. It’s getting harder and harder to get noticed and build something people will use, even more so pay for. Over the course of 12 months, TranslatePress grew to over 20K active […]
Author Razvan MocanuPosted on Categories Multilingual3 Comments on Automatic User Language Detection in TranslatePress Redirecting visitors to their own language preference based on browser language or IP address is a feature that has been often requested by our TranslatePress users. Now this is possible using the Automatic User Language Detection add-on. First time visitors expect to see the website in a language they understand. With such a short attention span […]
Author CristianPosted on Categories Multilingual7 Comments on TranslatePress Launch – From concept to product [UPDATE]: We’re now at 40,000+ active installs on WordPress.org and passed 10000$/month in revenue. Sign up to our newsletter and browse our transparency reports to find out what happened since our TranslatePress multilingual plugin launch. When you launch a new project there’s always a buzz of excitement, hope, relief, but also fear of failure and […]
Author Razvan MocanuPosted on Categories Multilingual, Translation8 Comments on Top WordPress Translation Plugins Compared Based On Page Load Time One of the main concerns when choosing a WordPress translation plugin is how it affects your website speed. A slower website will negatively affect your page rankings, traffic and eventually revenue. Therefore we decided to perform several speed tests on some of the most popular WordPress translation plugins just to give you an idea of […]
Author Razvan MocanuPosted on Categories TranslationLeave a comment on Translating entire paragraph at once In this article I’m going to illustrate how to translate a large piece of text together using TranslatePress. To understand why you would want to do that, let’s start with an example. So you’re in the process of translating your website with TranslatePress. Your website is a blog written in English and you plan to […]
If you’re looking to edit plugin strings or theme strings in WordPress, you might attempt to make changes to that plugin or theme files. But you will also lose those changes on the next update. How do you change the “Register” text with “Create Account”? It’s such a common request, that we even have an […]
Author CristianPosted on Categories TranslationLeave a comment on Translate ajax strings in WordPress Loading content with AJAX is used by a lot of WordPress themes and plugins (like WooCommerce) to show content and extend functionality without reloading the page. For a fully multilingual website, we need to translate AJAX strings in WordPress, as well as standard strings from your posts and pages. In WordPress, you can see ajax […]
Author CristianPosted on Categories WordCamp1 Comment on The Value of Sponsoring a WordCamp (TranslatePress Perspective) We recently got back from WordCamp Bucharest where our team members switched various hats: support the event as Gold Sponsors showcase the TranslatePress project to the WordPress community attend the conference and listen to the interesting talks Sponsoring a WordCamp Building brand awareness Just one month after the launch, this was the very first moment […]
Sometimes it can be quite challenging to translate dynamic strings in WordPress. And this is for two main reasons: they come from a plugin or theme that is not using gettext for their strings they are user created and saved in plugin or theme options, in user meta or in a custom table the translation […]
Author CristianPosted on Categories Multilingual4 Comments on WordPress in More Languages – Getting Started WordPress by default is NOT multilingual. You can set up your language when installing it, but that just localizes your site to a language so translating WordPress in more languages is not something as straightforward as publishing a post. Because of this, adding multilingual functionality can be done through a translation plugin, setting up a WordPress […]
