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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Thank you for a splendid work.
I write Japanese news in blog.
This plug in translates a Japanese sentence into English.
And I send information to the world.
Thank you once again
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Thank you Trevor
Its brilliant!
Hi Trevor
Thanks for the translate widget. I discovered that about a quarter of the hits on Vorpal.us were from outside the US, and figured that I should have a translation on the site.
Nice Job!
Ted Schober (aka marcus)
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Hi Trevor, Thanks for the cool widget.
On my blog (new install of 2.1) for some reason, your widget puts each flag on its own line in the sidebar. I’d like to have them grouped like on your site. Is this possible? Also, there is a think black border around each flag, I don’t know what is causing this.
FYI: I am trying to use the 3 column Vertigo Electried theme
http://www.briangardner.com/themes/vertigo-electrified-wordpress-theme.htm
I notice that this theme also has trouble displaying the del.iou.us plugin (nothing appears). A few other quarky things happen such as links appear automatically on seperate lines if I just type in a <a href rel=”nofollow”>type of code in a widget text box. Is it the theme that has problems with your code? Any ideas?
Thanks again for your time and effort. - marc
Hi Trevor,
Do you know if is possible to add portuguese language to the plugin list?
Your plugin looks great…
Thanks for you effort!
Thanks for sharing!
Hi Mirella,
Portuguese is already in the list.
Do you reckon we can get this for wordpress.com? It would be a great widget i think!
Hi Christos,
You’d have to take that up with the developers of wordpress.com.
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Hey there, i’ve never used a widget or word press before however i do want to install this to a website that is not a blog, or worpress thing. just a standard html webiste. will I be able to?
please let me know asap as i’d love to use this.
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Thanks Trev,
I am going to have a look at how I can integrate this into my travel site. Should be just what I have been looking for.
Cheers!
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Its installed and quite nice to have translation for my readers. The only problem is that each flag is surrounded by a colored border (red linking color) and I was wondering if there way I could fix this and have it look normal. Great plugin, appreciate your good work.
Never mind Trev - I moved the widget down a bit and the red borders vamoosed - thanks again for the solid work!
This is what I am looking for. Thanks Trev. I will give it a try.
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Hi,
I would like to know if I can put it on Blogger.com ??
Thanks
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I installed the Widget, and when I hover over a flag, it lists the URL of the site as: http://googletranslateinfo=http://sitename/blogurl/blogurl
instead of: http://googletranslateinfo=http://sitename/blogurl
It double posts the blogurl and that obviously returns an invalid URL. Thanks in advance!
I changed lines 22 and 33 for my specific site from:
$full_url = ‘http://www.google.com/translate?hl=’.$orig_lang.’&ie=UTF8&langpair=’.$orig_lang.’%7C’.$langcode.’&u=’.$url;
and replaced the “‘&u=’.$url;” with “‘&u=http://nameofmyblogsite.com/’.$url;”
It’s a hack and slash, but it works for the moment. Thanks for the cool translation tool.
Hi Trev,
This is an awsome plug, and makes my site look great! Thanks for creating and sharing this!…
I was wondering ,is there a line of code I can use to call the translation manually as opposed to the widget? only I would like to put the flags underneath my search box in the header, so I would need to put the code in the header, I just dont know how to call the function or what code to use?
Many Thanks
Martin
Wordpress 2.2 breaks your plugin and widget.
Great.
I’ll look into it.
Thanks for letting me know
about the widget not working with wordpress2.2: my problem seems to be that Sidebar Widgets 1.2.1.20070210b causes a fatal error. therefore i can’t use your awesome widget. i hope the answer is easy … i love your widget!