Automatic User Language Detection in TranslatePress
Redirecting visitors to their own language preference based on browser language or IP address is a feature often requested by our TranslatePress users. This can be easily achieved using the Automatic User Language Detection add-on. Below we’ll go through the reasons for using automatic user language detection as well as how it’s implemented in TranslatePress. Why […]
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TranslatePress Launch – From concept to product
[UPDATE]: We’re now at 60,000+ 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 […]
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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 […]
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Translating Entire Paragraphs 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 written in English and you plan to make it […]
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Edit Plugin Strings in WordPress
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 that means you’ll 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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Translate Dynamic Strings in WordPress
Sometimes it can be quite challenging to translate dynamic strings in WordPress. And this is for two main reasons: Themes like Hestia make use of the WordPress Customizer interface to quickly build a beautiful front page containing a slider, various columns for information, a list of WooCommerce products if it’s needed as well as a […]
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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 […]
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