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We have started providing free upgrades for (WordPress) Translator Plugin Pro (Version 5.2) & (WordPress) Translator Plugin Gold (Version 1.2) to all our existing customers.

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Translator Plugin Gold (for WordPress blogs) provides automatic machine translation of blogs in 32 languages (more will be added soon) - German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Arabic, Dutch, Greek, Russian, Norwegian, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hungarian, Icelandic, Latin American Spanish, Filipino, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Slovenian, Swedish, Welsh, Turkish and Latin. We provide unlimited free updates and upgrades and 6 months of free support.
Translator Plugin Gold has a lucrative affiliate program too. You can make a cool 30% from each sale!

The new features and fixes in version 1.2 (free upgrade for existing customers) are:

New Features

1. Directory browsing of translator plugin directory has been disabled for better security.
2. The ability to switch off translation statistics (from translator option page under Basic->Statistics->Disable Statistics section). You may gain some performance by switching off the statistics simply because it uses a database query to store the data. You can still use the Statistics widget to display your existing statistics. However it will not be updated if you decide to switch off stats. You can again switch it on any time.
3. In Translator Plugin Gold 1.2 we added a new hook / callback facility to enable you to view and process the translated page before it is served to the end user. Please refer to developer guide to know how to use it. The importance of this hook cannot be understated.
   You can use the tgTranslatorPostFilterHook to edit / modify the content of the translated pages before it is served to the user. You can also take action based on the content or engine used to translate the page.
   This hook can be used to handle errors in translation or even catch and process new types of errors. The actions include 1. ability to send custom error pages, 2. re-direct to original pages (for example in case of error), 3. displaying custom error messages and more. Few use cases for this hook are:
   • Provide customized title, meta tags & descriptions for translated pages to eliminate concerns about duplicate content. Check out the translated pages in simple thoughts for some usage examples (hint: look at the meta tags and title).
   • Provide custom error pages or re-direct to original page when translator is unable to translate a page (due to overload or temporary unavailability of engines).
   • Filter translated pages
   • Add your own content to translated pages like advertisements etc. You can also do it using existing translator API. However this provides full control over processing translated pages before it is served to the end-user.

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Translator Plugin Pro (for WordPress blogs) provides automatic machine translation of blogs in 13+1 languages (many more will be added soon) - German, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Dutch, Greek, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional and optionally Norwegian (note: we provide 32 languages with Translator Plugin Gold). We provide unlimited free updates and upgrades and 6 months of free support. The new features and fixes in version 5.2 (free upgrade for existing customers) are:

New Features

1. Directory browsing of translator plugin directory has been disabled for better security.
2. The ability to switch off translation statistics (from translator option page under Basic->Statistics->Disable Statistics section). You may gain some performance by switching off the statistics simply because it uses a database query to store the data. You can still use the Statistics widget to display your existing statistics. However it will not be updated if you decide to switch off stats. You can again switch it on any time.
3. In Translator Plugin Pro 5.2 we added a new hook / callback facility to enable you to view and process the translated page before it is served to the end user. Please refer to developer guide to know how to use it. The importance of this hook cannot be understated.
   You can use the tgTranslatorPostFilterHook to edit / modify the content of the translated pages before it is served to the user. You can also take action based on the content or engine used to translate the page.
   This hook can be used to handle errors in translation or even catch and process new types of errors. The actions include 1. ability to send custom error pages, 2. re-direct to original pages (for example in case of error), 3. displaying custom error messages and more. Few use cases for this hook are:
   • Provide customized title, meta tags & descriptions for translated pages. Check out the translated pages in simple thoughts for some usage examples (hint: look at the meta tags).
   • Provide custom error pages or re-direct to original page when translator is unable to translate a page (due to overload or temporary unavailability of engines).
   • Filter translated pages
   • Add your own content to translated pages like advertisements etc. You can also do it using existing translator API. However this provides full control over processing translated pages before it is served to the end-user.

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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?

Translator Plugin Gold version 1.1.1 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 for Translator Gold users. 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

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