WordPress Automatic Machine Translator Plugin 2.0 Beta - Please Test
June 29th, 2006 by Angsuman ChakrabortyUpdate:
I am delighted to announce the release of Angsuman’s Translator Plugin Pro for WordPress 2.x blogs. It provides automatic machine translation of your blog in eight different languages - German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean and Chinese. If you liked my previous translator plugin then you are going to love it. It is search engine optimized, supports WordPress widgets, uses nice permalinks, super-fast (cacheable) and lots more.
I am happy to announce we are very close to releasing WordPress Translator Plugin 2.0. It is a massive rewrite which supports 2.0.x version (targeted) of WordPress along with 1.5.x (not much tested). I am looking for your help in testing this release. Currently we have it working on our test site; check the dynamic logo on top-left. All known bugs have been fixed.
Background
WordPress Automatic Machine Translator plugin has been enormously popular in wordpress community and is used on a large number of sites worldwide. It provides automatic machine translation for your blog in eight languages - Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Korean and Chinese.
In this version we are using nice url format, without messing with .htaccess or mod_rewrite, for WordPress 2.0.x versions.
The current version will support at least three format of display and lots of configurability.
Looking forward to your feedback and suggestions.
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June 29th, 2006 at 10:07 am
Feature note: We fixed a lot of defects in Google translation engine for this release. We also provide a way to escape certain text from translation.
June 29th, 2006 at 9:25 pm
Did you pull the download link, or do we have to send an email to you for the beta files?
July 3rd, 2006 at 1:53 pm
I can’t find the download link for the beta either.
I do have a couple of questions about version 2.0 for you Angsuman.
1) Will the translated pages be cached in the database somehow? I can see this creating quite a load on people’- servers if not. I guess you can use WP-Cache if it’s not….
2) Will transalted pages have permalinks? It looks like it on your test server, but without being able to really play with it its hard to tell..
July 3rd, 2006 at 9:13 pm
It’s a excelent plugin but you would have to think to modify plugin for blogs that does not use English language, for example, in my case the Spanish.
Spanish translator babelfish only two language : french and english.
July 3rd, 2006 at 11:25 pm
I would like to help you on testing the new plugin if only I had the link to download it! ^^
July 4th, 2006 at 3:55 am
James,
I will send the files to you directly.
We are done with the internal testing.
The only delay is because I am now being forced to go dedicated server route and I am in the middle of choosing a provider and switching.
– Angsuman
July 4th, 2006 at 4:01 am
Erik,
Please check my answers below:
Q 1) Will the translated pages be cached in the database somehow? I can see this creating quite a load on people’- servers if not. I guess you can use WP-Cache if it’s not….
A. You can use any php caching system like eAccelerator to cache your pages.
Even without caching it will not create much load on your servers, based on my experience with the current version of the translator.
Q 2) Will transalted pages have permalinks? It looks like it on your test server, but without being able to really play with it its hard to tell..
Yes. It will have permalinks, one for each language. Isn’t that sweet
July 4th, 2006 at 4:03 am
Cinefilo,
Initially I wanted to include the capability to accomodate non-English languages. However the release is already overdue and I didn’t want to delay it further. I promise support for non-English blogs in the very next version.
July 4th, 2006 at 4:06 am
filippodb,
Wait for few more days. I am in the middle of changing my server.
July 10th, 2006 at 6:50 pm
I can’t wait for it to be released. If you still need any beta tester, count me in. I’ve a few blogs on different servers (v & d servers).
July 18th, 2006 at 8:38 pm
I’d like to test it - can you send me the download link?
Thanks!
July 26th, 2006 at 5:23 am
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August 6th, 2006 at 7:45 am
Has this been released yet? Could you also please send me a download link for me to try out too?
http://keith.hostmatrix.org/testbed
August 7th, 2006 at 6:25 am
I will release it tomorrow (August 7th 2006).
August 10th, 2006 at 10:42 am
Hmm… I have been checking for this one for 3 days!! its still not out???
This version seems to be a solid leap on the previous version.. cant wait
August 10th, 2006 at 11:45 am
I have everything ready. I am still waiting for the final nod from QA. I am sorry for keeping you all waiting but unless QA is satisfied it wouldn’t be prudent to go ahead. And there are lots of features to test and lots of options. Yes, it is a major leap over previous version with lots of goodies.
I know I can release it tomorrow. But I am wondering if I should give it two more days and go for Monday.
Anyway Monday is a good day for releasing.
August 11th, 2006 at 3:11 am
Monday it is then!!! will wait for it
August 14th, 2006 at 10:08 am
Is it released yet?????????????? come on! tell me it will be out today! or that its already out!!!
August 23rd, 2006 at 9:23 am
I’m anxiously waiting for it to be released as well!!
August 23rd, 2006 at 12:43 pm
@Erik & Siddharth,
I am very sorry I forgot to update this post. It has been released almost a week back and very well received. I think (and hope) you will like it too.
I am delighted to announce the release of Angsuman’s Translator Plugin Pro for WordPress 2.x blogs. It provides automatic machine translation of your blog in eight different languages - German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean and Chinese. If you liked my previous translator plugin then you are going to love it. It is search engine optimized, supports WordPress widgets, uses nice permalinks, super-fast (cacheable) and lots more.
August 1st, 2007 at 4:00 pm
Dear sir,
I would like to know is there any automatic translator that can do chinese to english translation? Any idea about that?
Thanks.
September 3rd, 2007 at 7:29 am
Translator Plugin Gold can easily translate from Chinese to English and other languages combinations too. Please see the matrix for the full list of supported languages from Chinese.