Translate Widget
Update! Version 2.0 is here: Translate Widget 2.0
So, I’ve completed my first bona-fide Wordpress Plugin 
It’s one of those newfandangled widgets, and it adds little flags to your sidebar, which will take you to a translation of the current blog page. It uses google translate, but removes the frame, so it looks quite nice! Once you’re in one language, you can browse around the blog, and everything stays translated. You can just click on the English flag to get back to the original language. You should see it on my sidebar now, and you can give it a trial run. Then, if satisfied, download it here:
Translate Widget
The zip includes a /flags/ folder, and a translate.php file. Both need to be placed in the /wordpress/wp-content/plugins/widgets/ folder. If you want to change the English language flag from the default American to either the British or Canadian (as I have!) flags, they are included, just rename flag_ca.gif, or flag_uk.gif to flag_en.gif. Now you can just go to the widget’s options.
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If you appreciate my plugins, and feel compelled to spread some love, I would certainly appreciate it. No obligation though, of course.
Comments, tips, or problems are welcome, just leave a comment here, or send me an email (Address is in the sidebar.)
Do enjoy!
Update on June 14, 2006: The plugin now supports Arabic, since Google has added that to their list of supported translations. This brings the total to 9 languages.
To those not familiar with Wordpress Widgets, you need to have the Widgets plugin installed before you can use my widget.
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Simply Brilliant!!!
This is a great and stylish plugin. I’ve been amazed looking at the site stats just how many people are making use of it.
Well done Trev! great little widget and easy to use!
Clickionaire
http://www.Clickionaire.com
Trev. Thank you so much! I have been in much need of a good translate widget for my blog. Have downloaded and will add it some time soon. Look forward to many more of your tips!
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Implemented your widget. Worked like a charm! http://www.joshpglane.com
Excellent plugin - Its very use ful for my unix blog at http://unix.vc/unixblog. thanks for your plugin and time
-Ravi
I’d clicked on your translator… but it’s not work!!!
love the idea of this plugin, it will be useful. have it installed and activated, but i don’t want it to replace everything i already have in my sidebar, i just want to add it to the sidebar. is there a way to drag and drop it into the sidebar without having my other info over ridden? i suppose i’m asking if there is a css code for it so i can add it into the sidebar under my themes.
Nice Job!
Hi, we have a free online translation tool which supports 16 languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Dutch, Polish, Ukrainian, Japanese,
Chinese, Korean, Hebrew, Arabic, Farsi. You can see it at http://www.gts-translation.com/freetranslation.asp. We also have code which you can use to translate your website or blog into 12 languages. See it at http://www.gts-
translation.com/webtranslation.asp.
the download link doesn’t seem to be working, I would love to have this plugin widget..
Thanks
Richard
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this plugin is very cool, but unfortunately my blog doesn’t support widgets without changing the theme, but I really want it. Decisions Decisions.
How do I get this to work with subdomains? Everything works great except the url output is http://www.domain when it should be http://sub.domain.
Thank you for your great script.
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Hi, I am trying your translation widget on my site. I have a problem. My site is for registered members to view only. So I login and pick a new language from your widget and it sends me to a login screen again in a new language. Once I log back in the page is back to english. Any help would be great thanks!
Yotsume,
This plugin will not work for your site, because it basically sends the URL of your page to Google. Google looks up that page, and since they are not registered at your site, they get the login page. There are a couple of other translate plugins out there for Wordpress which might work better for you.
I just installed this yesterday. It was working perfectly. I upgraded to Wordpress 2.1 today and it isn’t working, now. Is this a known issue? That is being upgraded.
I think I love the widget though. I was going to post that here in a few days.
Thanks so much for your time. It must be hard being so famous while still going to school.
Hi Jennifer,
My blog will hopefully be updated to WP 2.1 in the next few days. I’ll look into the issue then.
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Great widget. Thanks!
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Dude, simply an awesome job
Keep up your great plugins
How can I implement this on my blog that is hosted on wordpress.com site?
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