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Tuesday, December 26th, 2006
Catering To Multilingual Readers
There are two aspects to a multilingual site, the writing and the reading. Providing tools for writing in multiple languages is worthwhile, but without similar tools for reading in multiple languages, the site remains monolingual, albeit with some smart links and localisation. Many readers of multilingual sites are themselves able to understand more […]
No Comments - Posted in Gengo, Technical by Jamie
Wednesday, December 20th, 2006
Language Codes and the Locale in WordPress
International language codes tell the software in which language a text is written.
Most of you know that en means “English”, fr is assigned to “français” or French, it stands for “italiano”—and so on.
There are even some fancy three-letter codes out there, such as gsw for Swiss-German/Alemannic.
[2] Comments - Posted in Technical by Georg
Wednesday, December 20th, 2006
Gengo: Frequently asked questions
Does Gengo delete any of my data?
No. All of Gengo’s information is stored in separate tables. The furthest you can go is to delete all posts marked as a translation of the current post, but you won’t be able to do that if you don’t have permissions.
How do I add / edit / […]
1 Comment - Posted in Development News by Georg
Wednesday, December 20th, 2006
Determining Language
There have been a number of questions recently relating to how Gengo uses redirects to ensure a consistent language interface. Determining the language is a complex process, made all the more problematic by the fact that inevitably people will follow bad links to your site and that Gengo now supports reading in multiple languages […]
[4] Comments - Posted in Development News, Gengo by Jamie
Sunday, December 10th, 2006
Gengo: Compatibility
Some plugins are incorrectly localized and don’t work with Gengo. If you see an error message on your blog, deactivate all plugins but Gengo, then reactivate them, one by one, to see if one of them is broken. The following plugins are known to have had some problems in the past, which now may […]
[19] Comments - Posted in Development News by Jamie
Sunday, December 10th, 2006
Gengo: Template Functions
The Gengo plugin provides a number of template functions which are very similar to those in WordPress:
the_summaries()
Outputs a div with a javascript switcher of all of the summaries for this post, or nothing.
the_translations()
Outputs a list of translations for this post, or “No Translations”.
the_translations_comments()
Outputs a list of links to the comments sections of translations […]
1 Comment - Posted in Development News by Jamie
Sunday, December 10th, 2006
Gengo Download Page
Gengo is a free, full featured plugin that provides multi-language blogging for WordPress. In Japanese, gengo (言語) is the word for “language”.
Download Gengo 0.9 now!
Features
Lets you translate any post or page into as many languages as you want
Saves the visitor’s language choice in a cookie
Automatically detects the visitor’s browser default language if no cookie has […]
[10] Comments - Posted in Development News by Georg
Sunday, December 10th, 2006
HowTo: Localise WordPress And Gengo (Part 2)
In Part 1, we discussed why localisation is important and explained what files you need and how to organise your theme, so that you can achieve a consistent presentation for your site and content. But what happens when there isn’t an .mo localisation file for your language? In Part 2, we explain how […]
