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I’m discontinuing WP-Translate

Scott Hough — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:57:23 +0000

I don’t have the time I once had. I’ve decided to discontinue WP-Translate. I should have announced this earlier. I just don’t have the time or desire to continue with the plugin. Others have made a nice ajax translation plugin.

WP Translate updates.

Scott Hough — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 06:48:04 +0000

I haven’t been working on the plugin lately. I recently moved from Arizona to Virginia. I haven’t had much time. I’ve been trying to catch up with emails I’ve received and reading blog comments.

I’ve gotten a few emails regarding the beta not working on Internet Explorer. I’m aware of that, I just can’t figure out why IE isn’t asking for referrer information from the plugin.

I’ve also received a few emails and blog comments regarding the newest version of WordPress. I know the plugin isn’t working with it. I haven’t investigated it yet.

Another thing, I received an email from a sysadmin for a hosting company. It appears the plugin is causing some problems.

Quote from the email

Hi,

I am the sysadmin for a hosting company in the UK and we are seeing severe problems at the moment caused by the wp-translate plugin. After tracing the process, I was able to determine that Google was rejecting the connection. The plugin was then going into an infinite loop continuously trying to connect to Google and failing every time. This would only end when our webserver software was forcibly terminating the process for going over the sandbox limits.

So far the only way we can prevent this is to disable the plugin completely. This probably wouldn’t be as much of a problem if it wasn’t for Google attempting to also index the website and requesting translations of every single page on the site…

Just thought you should know. We will be informing all our customers using the plugin that we are disabling it and to check your site for updates. Ideally, in the case of a failure by the translation engine it should just gracefully die instead of trying to kill the webserver

New beta of WP-Translate.

Scott Hough — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 09:34:10 +0000

Here’s the new beta of the plugin. I need a few testers before it becomes an official release. It includes a link back to english. That’s a feature everyone requested. It also doesn’t break when you try a different language when already translated.

New WP-Translate Comming soon.

Scott Hough — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 16:28:29 +0000

I have had a little bit of free time lately. I’ve been working on a new beta of the plugin. I’ll probably test it a little more before releaseing it to the public for testing. I want to make sure it works with no problems on my end before I release it. Look for it sometime before Wednesday.

WP-Translate 3 Beta

Scott Hough — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 17:19:11 +0000

Anyone want to test a beta of the next version of WordPress Translate? I know it works on my blog, but I don’t know if it’ll work on yours. I’ve gotten complaints on the other versions being broken on others blogs. Go ahead, download and test it for me before I make it an official release.

Download: Version 3b

New version of WP-Translate

Scott Hough — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 20:59:19 +0000

I updated WP-translate. I’ve had people asking for the ability to make it display vertically or horizontally. It now has that ability.

To the plugin page!

UPDATE: I have been notified of the image path being incorrect when the blog isn’t at the root of a domain. I have fixed it so it should work with blogs in subdirectories of websites.

Introducing WordPress Translate

Scott Hough — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 00:42:24 +0000

I just finished writing a plugin to translate a WordPress blog to any language that Google can translate to. I didn’t have a use for it really. Not many people read my blog. I just wanted something to do.

WordPress Translate Project page