First, you should create a network of blogs using following these instructions : http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network

Once you have your network set, just create a second / third blog with the proper sub urls. You can now share the same plugins, same wordpress installation, same theme with various languages.

What I usually do is have one main blog just as a placeholder, one with /fr base url and one with /en base url.

I still miss the functions to get links between posts but we could probably find plugins to do that

That was easy wasn’t it?

Next time I may talk about exporting zd_multilang content. I made a plugin for that but I still need to make some changes to make it work properly.

The second reason is simply that with WordPress 3.0 you don’t need any plugin to get bilingual content.

This is why I made a new plugin to export ZdMultilang content to WordPress .xml format.

I will also make a short tutorial on how to create and manage a FULLY multilingual blog with WordPress 3.0 soon.

If anyone wants to fork or keep on maintaining the plugin, you are welcome to contact me.

Before giving you the changelog, let me tell you this, I found a way to make translated permalinks work, but, this is very bad in term of SEO so it is not yet implemented. The way I implemented it for now makes these work :
http://blog.zen-dreams.com/fr/nouveau_post
http://blog.zen-dreams.com/en/new_post, that’s great
and finally, http://blog.zen-dreams.com/en/nouveau_post and that is not good at all as two different permalinks with the exact same content…

I’m trying to find a way to make it work properly right now, and even those who forked the plugin have this behaviour. I have my ideas so we may see a version 1.2.6 before Christmas, but probably not.

And now, here is the changelog.

• You can have static pages as a frontpage !
• Updated a bug with translation icon in the page while the page has never been saved
• Added options to hide the flag in the widget
• Function zd_multilang_menu now takes two paramaters : zd_multilang_menu (show_language_name, show_language_flag) by default these are true
• Added an option to display original post while translating
• Added a donate button if you want to support development of the plugin
• Ability to choose the user level needed to edit content
• Added an option to keep comments separated – Amazing work done by Pau Sanchez
• Autosave (optional) so that, every 5 minutes.

It will include lots of new features, some bugfixes and still no different permalinks for each languages.
Apparently someone managed to do it for Carla Bruni Sarkozy but they forked the plugin and didn’t share the changes…

I just contacted the company who made the website and see if they will share the knowledge. If not, then we will all have to wait until I fix that.

In the meantime, I did some improvements to the plugin, here is the changelog for version 1.2.5 :

• The most expected feature is now working : You can have static pages as a frontpage !
• Updated a bug with translation icon in the page while the page has never been saved
• Added options to hide the flag in the widget
• Function zd_multilang_menu now takes two paramaters : zd_multilang_menu (show_language_name, show_language_flag) by default these are true
• Added an option to display original post while translating
• Added a donate button if you want to support development of the plugin
• Ability to choose the user level needed to edit content
• Added an option to keep comments separated – Amazing work done by Pau Sanchez

Stay tuned, I’ll let everyone know as soon as I publish the next version, it should be soon.

Following some of your requests and due to the fact that I had to look in order to make ZdMultilang work with the latest WordPress, Here is the updated article with explanation of how to integrate tinyMCE into your wordpress plugins.

So here is the code you need to include.

add_filter('admin_head','ShowTinyMCE');
function ShowTinyMCE() {
	// conditions here
	wp_enqueue_script( 'common' );
	wp_enqueue_script( 'jquery-color' );
	wp_print_scripts('editor');
	if (function_exists('add_thickbox')) add_thickbox();
	wp_print_scripts('media-upload');
	if (function_exists('wp_tiny_mce')) wp_tiny_mce();
	wp_admin_css();
	wp_enqueue_script('utils');
	do_action("admin_print_styles-post-php");
	do_action('admin_print_styles');
}

Don’t ask me to explain everything, I just found all these details while browsing the admin pages related to posts.

In order to do so, I need YOU. I will make all the improvements and bug fixes based on a priority list that I want you to help me build.
Below is a list of bugfixes and features that will be included in the next release (or two if I release first a version with full 2.8 compatibility)

1. Bug fixes

• Fix home page as a static page handling !
• Fix the save button in WordPress 2.8 Fixed since 1.2.3
• Issue with the Media Upload icon Fixed in the upcoming 1.2.4
• Better handling of permalinks detection (permalink with more than 2 char)

2. Features

• Allow to create different permalinks depending on the language
• Update the zd_multilang_menu function to add parameters (like displaying only some elements)
• Add an option to allow displaying all the languages including the current one in the widget.
• Make a better, up to date F.A.Q / Help page.
• Create a function to get the current language used.
• Handling of Widget title translation.
• Uninstall function with Database cleaning
• Write post in non default language only (find a way to do this…)
• Add a theme switching function according to current language (requested by AMN)
• Translation could have a different date than the original post.
• See if it can work with WP-Print

Now it’s up to you to help me add items to the list. Please read the comments before asking for a feature/bugfix as I will try to update the list as much as possible.

So here is the first proof I can work again, you will find that ZdMultilang has been updated for a fix to the bug that made translations impossible to perform with WP 2.7.

In fact I had to change the way variables where passed to the plugin for post/page translations. In the meantime, I included translations for Spanish (made by Guillermo Lopez) and Brazilian Portuguese (made by DJIO - www.djio.com.br)

For now on, I’ll be working on new plugins for WordPress, but I can’t tell you what

[EDIT] The plugin still had a bug due to the change of variable passing. Version 1.2.2 is now out and corrects it !

This will give everybody the chance to share their knowledge regarding various plugins I created.

I Hope this will help you all.

Photo Credits :Haags Uitburo

Thanks to Alariel, I can provide now a German Translation for ZdStatistics.

It will be included in next release of the plugin, but for now you can download it here and just place it in the lang folder of the plugin.

• Blog name, blog description, links + description, link categories + description, category descriptions are now translatable.
• Flag for the current  language won’t be displayed anymore in language selector and widget.
• Import from Google directly from the post editor.
• Draft status added for translations.
• Support WordPress 2.7
• Corrected a bug with wordpress 2.5
• Better system to create languages (more intuitive)

What’s next ?

Well, I do have to create a new documentation as nearly everything has changed.

Do a screencast on how to use the plugin.