Google AJAX Translation WordPress Plugin

Author: Libin Pan

4 Aug

UPDATE:

Thanks Michael Klein for his great work on this plugin. We’ve updated to Version 0.3.1 now.

Some changes:

Encapsulate the plugin in a class. No global vars needed anymore, faster code! (Michael Klein)

Better support of capabilities-model (WP 2.6)

Fixed some html-bugs (missing alt-Tags, etc.)

And, please make sure go to your WordPress Settings->Google Translation admin page to reconfig all the preferences after the updating. Thanks!

Google AJAX Translation is my the first WordPress Plugin, it has been downloaded more than 1700 times until today. And because it is so simple, I haven’t done any major update after the first release.

Couple of days ago, I’ve got an email from Michael Klein from alquanto.de. In his email, he attached a updated version of my plugin and show me how it works on his blog: http://groovengine.de

Mr. Michael Klein has finished a big task on my todo list: Switch between flag icon and text for all these languages.

It’s amazing! This is the beauty of Open Source! We need a new update version now!

Say hello to Google AJAX Translation WordPress Plugin 0.2.0!

What’s new?

Switch between flag icon and text for all these languages. Thanks Mr. Michael Klein!
Admin configuration page

Enable/Disable Posts Translation
Select which languages you want to support
More Languages Support, it has 23 languages in total:

* Arabic
* Bulgarian New!
* Chinese (Simplified and Traditional)
* Croatian New!
* Czech New!
* Danish New!
* Dutch
* English
* Finnish New!
* French
* German
* Greek
* Hindi New!
* Italian
* Japanese
* Korean
* Norwegian New!
* Polish New!
* Portuguese
* Romanian New!
* Russian
* Spanish
* Swedish New!

How to update?

Download the newest version from WordPress
Unzip it and you will have everything in the “google-ajax-translation” folder
Overwrite the exist “google-ajax-translation” folder on your server, it should be in “wp-content/plugins/” directory
Active it from your admin page
Do some changes on Google Ajax Translation admin page

Enjoy!

Please feel free to comment here if you have any questions, or you still can check if is was already answered on the old post.

And it is on GitHub too!

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49 Responses for "Google AJAX Translation WordPress Plugin"

Introducing the Google AJAX Translation WordPress Plugin | Libin Pan August 4th, 2008 at 12:28 am 1

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hanjra August 4th, 2008 at 3:49 am 2

looking cool, will test it soon.

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eylultoprak August 4th, 2008 at 11:04 am 3

Perhaps , turkish become turning service.
Very impressive.
Good work.

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helmeloh August 5th, 2008 at 12:49 am 4

Looks really nice so I tried it, but the html validation shows 17 errors and when I click on a flag or text link nothing happend, so I had to dissable the plugin meanwhile.
I would like to try next version again, so please let me know when it’s ready.
Thks and have a nice day, Helmut

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Gareth August 8th, 2008 at 4:11 am 5

Nice Plugin but I need to remove the Link Border from the flags. Please advise how, as this is not easily seen in the PHP file.

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alquanto August 11th, 2008 at 7:33 pm 6

@helmeloh: Maybe you should take a look at the new version… it cleanly validates with w3.org.

Regarding the “clicked-and-nothing-happened”: well, maybe you should activate JavaScript for that, because we’re using the JavaScript-API of Google….

so long,
Michael

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Alex August 12th, 2008 at 5:12 am 7

Hello. Thanks for this nice plugin, first. Second, the post translation doesn’t work, and I did check the “Enable post translation” option. If I open the article, I can translate the comments, but not the post. Clicking on any flags doesn’t do anything. What could be wrong?
Thank you.

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Ramon August 12th, 2008 at 9:27 am 8

The plugin isn’t working for my browser either (on this page at least).

And my Javascript is on, otherwise it would make my web development job much more interesting to say the least…

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Libin Pan August 12th, 2008 at 9:41 am 9

Hi Ramon,

Could you please let me know what theme you are using, or you can just open :
…/wp-content/themes/your current theme/footer.php
Try to find if it has
< ?php wp_footer(); ?>

If not, please just add it in before < / body >
Hope this will fix the problem. Let me know if it still doesn’t work.

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Ramon August 12th, 2008 at 11:57 am 10

I’m not using it on my site. I was testing it on yours. It works fine from my home browser, not from work though. not sure why. Maybe the corporate firewall blocks something the api needs?

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alquanto August 12th, 2008 at 6:35 pm 11

maybe there is a problem with your content-filtering firewall, because the main js-files come directly from google and not from this site.
Hmm…

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Libin Pan August 12th, 2008 at 10:09 pm 12

Thanks Michael Klein for his great work on this plugin. We’ve updated to Version 0.3.1 now.

Please be sure to check out the newest version!

And, please make sure go to your WordPress Settings->Google Translation admin page to reconfig all the preferences after the updating. Thanks!

Enjoy!

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Mads Jensen August 13th, 2008 at 5:11 pm 13

Nice plugin!! Great work!
is it possible to make it translate an entire page and not only comments?

cheers mads

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helmeloh August 19th, 2008 at 12:39 am 14

Thank you for your answer above and for cleaning the code. Now there is no HTML error anymore, but I’m sorry to say, it does not work. I just get the error message “google_translate is not defined”.
Cheers Helmeloh

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helmeloh August 19th, 2008 at 12:42 am 15

Here it seems to work fine, so maybe I did something wrong. Appreciate your hint.

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helmeloh August 19th, 2008 at 1:28 am 16

It’s again me. In the admin panel the translation works fine, but not on my blog.

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Libin Pan August 19th, 2008 at 9:02 am 17

Hi Helmeloh,

Please take a look on comment #9 or open :
…/wp-content/themes/your current theme/footer.php
Try to find if it has
< ?php wp_footer(); ?>

If not, please just add it in before < / body >
Please give it a try and let me know how it goes.

Thanks

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justin August 19th, 2008 at 2:39 pm 18

i like it, but would only use it if it could translate my entire site

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Libin Pan August 19th, 2008 at 2:43 pm 19

Google Translate is the one which works better for entire site:

Google Translate

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helmeloh August 20th, 2008 at 1:20 am 20

Hi Libin Pan,
Thank you for your help. After inserting it works, but there were still some HTML errors. Now I added in ajaxtranslation.php on
line 232 because the HTML validator should just check the HTML source, but not the JS source and now I’m really happy with the nice translation tool.

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helmeloh August 20th, 2008 at 1:23 am 21

Correction at the beginning of the script “”

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Libin Pan August 20th, 2008 at 9:44 am 22

Thanks helmeloh!

Glad to hear it works for you now. Will fix the HTML validation problem when the next version come out.

Libin

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Francisco August 23rd, 2008 at 7:05 am 23

Hey Libin, I’ve installed your awesome plug in on my test blog and it does not stay at the bottom of each post, if i add an image it goes to the side of the post, but when it’s just a text post it stays at the bottom. check it, http://www.miel-da.com/wordpress.

Thank you,
F

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Libin Pan August 23rd, 2008 at 9:13 am 24

Hi Francisco,

Your site looks really nice!

Could you please do a simple change on your theme:
wp-content/themes/wp-andreas01/style.css

On line 59, please remove ‘float:left;’. Then it should work again.

Thanks,
Libin

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Francisco August 24th, 2008 at 5:11 am 25

Thanks my man! it worked. Keep up the good work my friend.

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Rohin August 30th, 2008 at 10:51 pm 27

How do I place the translation in a custom spot like in the bottom of the footer , or in the sidebar.

I tried looking for a tag. Could not find it.

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Rohin August 31st, 2008 at 1:57 am 28

How can you change where the plugin is placed within the template ?

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Giikah August 31st, 2008 at 6:36 am 29

Thanks for this tool!!

I have a problem, when I click to translate a text, it translates it but if the post has images or videos, they dissapear. Maybe it is normal…but I don´t think so.

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Libin Pan August 31st, 2008 at 11:53 am 30

@Rohin:

You can open ajaxtranslation.php and change some codes in processContent and processComment to change the position of the flags or text.

@Giikah:

Before the plugin sends the text to google, it will filter out all the html tags. The reason is google will translate the text inside the html tags for you. We are trying to find a better solution for this issue. So far, if you see images or videos disappear after the translation, it is normal, kind of.

Thanks!

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Giikah August 31st, 2008 at 11:58 am 31

¡Thanks for your fast response!

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sam September 6th, 2008 at 4:00 am 32

hi, i really want to use this on my site, is there a way to use it for Posts and Comments, but not Pages.
thanks!

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M4rco September 6th, 2008 at 7:37 am 33

Thanks for sharing this Plugin. Your Blog already Bookmarked

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Libin Pan September 6th, 2008 at 8:54 am 34

Hey Sam,

I think this is exact what you want, only translate posts or comments, but not pages.

Have you tried to install on your site yet?

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Francisco September 6th, 2008 at 5:44 pm 36

Hey buddy, me again, another question, when i translate large amounts of text only half gets translated and the other stays in English. Is there something I’m missing out on?

Thanks man!
Francisco

check the latest post
http://www.miel-da.com/wordpress
Thank you!!!

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Libin Pan September 6th, 2008 at 9:15 pm 37

Hey Francisco,

You didn’t miss anything. There is a limitation in Google AJAX Translation API as it only accepts less than 500 characters. So we only pass the first 500 characters over to Google.

This is a known issue and we are working on it to find a better solution. At the same time, Google says it will release a new version of AJAX Translation API very soon. Hope the coming verion will do better on this.

Anyway, stay tuned!
Libin

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sam September 7th, 2008 at 1:45 pm 39

@Libin Pan:
yes i installed it, but it the flags are showing up on both posts and pages! would it be something to do with my theme? how can i disable it on pages?
thanks

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