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.

This is no secret, it is a WordPress powered website, thus giving Slant Six Games the power to use it as a corporate website, and as a blog at the same time.

This was the challenge, while having dynamic pages, we wanted to have static pages and a blog as well. The graphics, layout and wireframes was built by Karyo Edelman and it was integrated and developed by myself. The most challenging part of this website, appart from making it compatible with Internet Explorer 6 was the changing layout depending on the pages you are looking at. And also the apple spotlight functionnality that was requested as the search engine.

Basically, you have the homepage (3 column layout), the blog (2 column layout), single page (2 OR 3 columns depending on the content) and static pages (2 or 3 columns depending on the content). Below are some screenshots of the site, of course you can also go and check it live !

Zen-Dreams will also change

And now, it is time to change this layout ! I will try to make posts during this process to emphasize the process and show you how to : Integrate ZdMultilang in your design and how to create your own WordPress Template.

Screenshots

Slant Six Games Homepage

The blog @SlantSixGames

Life at Slant Section

The search box in action

]]> http://blog.zen-dreams.com/blog-en/2009/03/25/slant-six-games-new-website/feed/ 0 http://blog.zen-dreams.com/blog-en/2009/01/23/zdmultilang-updated/ http://blog.zen-dreams.com/blog-en/2009/01/23/zdmultilang-updated/#comments Fri, 23 Jan 2009 06:12:34 +0000 Anthony http://www.zen-dreams.com/en/?p=567 Ok, I’m back into action as I can now work a little bit more from home. I’ve got some WIFI problems but I can work !

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

• 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.

Has you are probably aware, WordPress 2.7 beta 3 is out. Even if this is not the final release and some features may change, I always test my plugins against new major releases.

So, the very good news is, ZdStatistics and ZdMultilang are both compatible with WordPress 2.7 Beta 3 and everything makes me suppose it will be fully compliant with Final Release of WordPress 2.7.

Another very good news for ZdMultilang Users is next version will soon be out and lots of new exciting features will be included. Here is a short list of features that will be released.

• Flags are not displayed for current language (they were useless in that case)
• Flags and widget are now working properly
• Easy addition of languages (through predefined lists)
• Draft status for translations !
• Import from Google Translate while translating posts/pages
• Better menus (compatible with ozh admin dropdown menu)
  

New translations :

• Blog title
• Blog description
• Links + description & Links categories + descriptions

One of the most problematic part of the plugin was to define languages as language codes where not known of the users. So, in order to help you define your languages, next release of zdmultilang will include a language selector which has been made using the list of languages included in WordPress.

The language selector will look like this. Clicking on a link will fill correct values, allowing you to modify them before to save.

Language Selector

Feature list / Bugs I’ll be working on

Just to let you know, there is no specific order on tasks.

Features :

• Rename all falgs
• Give a list of available languages and option to create a new language
• Don’t show the flag on untranslated posts.
• Enhance zd_multilang_menu(); and create a doc on how to implement it in themes
• Search in translated texts as well as original posts
• Don’t show flag for current language in posts/pages
• Translate more : Blog title, blog slogan, post excerpts, link and cats descriptions, …
• Translate slugs – feasible ?
• Translate metatags – feasible ?
• In translate post/page, add a button to import google translation
• Allow translations using ThickBox
• Add Draft status so that you can publish a translation later.

Bugs :

• Fix the “show language name in language selector”
• When homepage of the blog is a static page, translations and permalink are not working.
• Repair Links to prev/next translation
• Check for different permalinks structures (in ?lang=… & /index.php/%postname%)
• Check compatibility with wordpress MU

Feedback ?

Of course, ZdMultilang is not only a plugin made for me, but also for YOU, so for any feature request, bugs, do not hesitate to leave a comment here, or use the bug tracker here on Launchpad.

Here is the change log :

• Some typos in French translation
• Better user level limit handling
• Better support for php4 (using php5 will give you some more features)
• Daily stats screen improved.
• No more css messing around with the dashboard.

IMPORTANT : As with every previous update of the plugin, you’ll have to download the GeoLiteCity.dat file. But this time, using a new option, you can locate it somewhere else on your server and it won’t get deleted each time you’ll update the plugin. Until now that was the main reason why there was so few updates. I didn’t want to bother you all with downloading this file again.