I am happy to announce an affiliate marketing program for Translator Plugin Gold. Now you can sell your favorite WordPress plugin and earn 30% of the proceeds, a cool 30$ per sale. You can find more details and enroll here:
Translator Plugin Gold Affiliate Program.

Affiliate program for Translator plugins has been a much requested feature from our customers. I am happy that we finally got it out of the door (blame me for the delay). We will include more of our products in near future.

You can send your feedback using the comment form below or the contact form. Discuss it in our forum.

We have developed a new combo bar for displaying the languages for Translator Plugin Pro & Gold. Check it on the top right of this blog. You can select a language to translate to and you will be directed to the translated version of the page, no button to click.

The coolest feature is that it also works in browsers without Javascript, giving a decent layout. Additionally the links are fully accessible by search engine spiders like Googlebot, Yahoo Slurp! etc.

It consumes much less space than the previous versions and takes a fraction of the time to load (not to mention reduced network traffic) as only one small image is loaded instead of 32 images for 32 langauges in Translator Gold.

Would you like it on your blog? … A single combo bar to translate your WordPress blog to 32 languages?

With automation in place (and fully updated database) this time we were able to deliver the latest updates for Translator Plugin Pro 5.1.1 and Translator Plugin Gold 1.1.1 before we even made the announcement! This is a big milestone. Previously it used to take weeks to deliver the orders. Read below for details and what to do if you didn’t receive your update.

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Translator Plugin Pro versiion 5.1.1 has been released. This is a bug fix release. This upgrade fixes a small but important bug where the time-limit for stale refresh was not being strictly honored for heavily loaded sites.

This fix enforces the delay which will prevent overloading of popular sites due to background refresh.

Thanks goes to Raymond, LK Cho and others for finding it.

This is a recommended upgrade especially for popular sites. Please make a backup of your old plugin before upgrade.

How to upgrade:
1. Deactivate the translator plugin
2. Please backup and then delete the old translator directory.
3. Please upload the new translator directory (and subdirectories) to your wp-content/plugins folder.
4. Activate the plugin

We are working on a new version of Translator plugin (Pro & Gold). Here are the planned features:
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WP-Cache 2 and its younger cousin WP Super Cache have become de-facto suggestion for reducing site load for WordPress blogs. I used WP-Cache 2 on all my blogs. WP Super Cache despite its potential doesn’t improve upon the performance of WP-Cache 2 and brings in some problems.

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Translator Plugin Pro provides automatic machine translation of WordPress blogs in 13+1 languages - German,Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Dutch, Greek, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional and optionally Norwegian.

The new features in version 5.1 are:

1. In the option page (under Advanced -> Miscellaneous section) it now provides SQL queries which you can execute in your database to significantly speed-up Translator Pro on heavily trafficked sites. It adds indexes to the tables for faster querying.

2. Improved user interface

3. Translator Plugin Pro adds a new feature to verify completeness of translated pages by checking for keywords or tags in your page. This elegantly handles the failures in third party translation engine. This adds to the extensive checks we perform to ensure quality and completeness of translated pages.

4. New translation engine errors have been added for automatic fail-over support and load-balancing.

5. Overall performance improvement and optimizations have been added to this release.

6. New extensive documentation have been added in this release, old documentation revised and updated. You can read the full documentation here. Don’t forget to check our developer API for writing your custom look and extensions.

You can read about all the features here.

We now provide online help desk on our new support site. Please register there for customer support.

Please post your feedback in Translator Plugin Pro forum.

Translator Plugin Pro 5.1 is fully compatible with WordPress 2.5 as well as earlier version of WordPress.

Translator Plugin Pro is fully compatible with WordPress 2.5. Existing customers of Translator Plugin Pro & Gold can upgrade to the latest version of WordPress without any concerns wrt. Translator plugins.

Translator for Web sites is a much requested feature from our clients. We have started development on it. However design-wise we had some limitations in being able to provide the same level of functionality and configurability as Translator Pro or Translator Gold, that is until Friday this week. The original architecture was getting too complex for my taste while adapting to Translator for Web (general php web sites or even html ones). And then on Thursday night I found a technique which makes all of it very simple and elegant.

After a hectic day of coding on Friday we have a fully working prototype which we successfully tested on our new forum, a phpBB site. The solution we have now for Translator for Web will be very simple to implement on any web sites including plain html web sites. Not only that it also improves the performance while translating pages for the first time (after that translated pages are cached), a significant achievement considering that we had already optimized it as a lot earlier. We also found an elegant and optimal solution for intelligent caching (when to mark a page as stale). Overall our development time will be shortened with this new approach and our clients will find the solution simple to deploy and use.

We have opened a forum for all our products and blogs. I haven’t officially announced it yet. Please check it out, register and leave your feedback and comments. Looking forward to hear from you.