Andrea Olivato’s Blog

In the latest release of Translate This I fixed a bug which affected wordpress installations that are not located in the root of your domain. This means that if your blog address is something like

http://my.domain.com/

everything worked fine, while if you have something like that

http://my.domain.com/myblog/

the old version would have returned a 404 error. This error was due to an absolute path used to indicate the iframe location and was fixed with the suggestions of Marco Battistoni.

Older Releases

As I didn’t publish anything about latest releases changes I will resume them below

9.03.11

In this release I added a very useful JS script that has the duty to hide the ‘Translate This’ icon on your editor when you move from visual to HTML mode. This is necessary as the script still do not support code editor for translation. I will try to realize that in the future but in the meantime I believe that is safer to disable the icon so that people do not try to translate in HTML mode.

I also improved the graphics inside the popup, moving elements and fixing some styles, and added language flags inside the selectbox. Icons have been realized by Icon Drawer and all the rights about them are their property.

9.03.09-1

This is a miny-minor release, needed to fix an incompatibility issue with contact-forms-iii. That was suggested by Rajesh in the comments .

9.03.09

In this release I fixed paths problem that where caused from the change of the plugin folder from translate to translate-this. That was my bad fault .

Playing with APIs is very funny, especially if you can obtain a lot, coding a few. This time I realized Translate This a simple wordpress plugin using Google Ajax APIs for Languages to translate the post you’re writing, directly from wordpress administration interface.

It was easy to create the plugin but it’s also very simple to use!
In fact it just adds an icon in the toolbar above wordpress text editor. Clicking it will open a popup containing a select for the language you want to translate your text to and a quick preview of what you will obtain. You change the language from the select and the preview updates itself. When you’re satisfied you press save and your text is automatically replaced with the translated one. There are 42 languages in which you can translate your text.

That’s amazing in my opinion…. here is a quick screencast to show what I’m talking about

As I’m still waiting for wordpress to accept my plugin on their directory you can visit the dedicated page on this blog.

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