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We’re excited to announce the release of Transposh 1.0.11, a significant update that brings a much-requested feature to our beloved translation plugin! We’ve heard your feedback, and we’ve been working hard to make your multilingual website management even smoother and more intuitive.

Say Goodbye to Constant File Edits!

The biggest change in Transposh 1.0.11 is the introduction of fully administrative language settings. Previously, to add new languages, change flags, or modify language names, you had to dive into the constants.php file – a process that could be a bit daunting for some users.

No more! With this update, you can now manage all your language settings directly from the Transposh administration page. This means:

• Effortless Language Addition: Easily add new languages to your site without touching any code.
• Customizable Flags: Change the flag associated with any language to better suit your branding or regional preferences.
• Flexible Locales: Set or modify the locale for each language, ensuring proper formatting and functionality.
• Personalized Language Names: Alter the display names of languages as they appear on your site.

This new feature empowers you with greater control and flexibility, making Transposh even more user-friendly and powerful. Managing your multilingual content has never been this straightforward!

We believe this update will significantly improve the experience for all Transposh users, allowing for quicker setup and easier ongoing maintenance of your translated websites.

Update to Transposh 1.0.11 today and experience the difference!

After four months since our last release, we’re excited to announce Transposh version 1.0.10. This update tackles some long-standing challenges, including the dead Bing endpoint and frontend performance bottlenecks. We’ve shifted all translation processing to the backend for every engine, dramatically improving speed and reliability while eliminating client-side auto-translation. We’ve also introduced support for LibreTranslate as a flexible new backend option, alongside enhanced caching and other refinements to make your multilingual WordPress site smoother than ever.

Key highlights of this release:

• Revamped translation handling to fix #38 (dead Bing endpoint).
• Fully moved translation processing to the backend, reducing client-side workload and fixing #40 for better performance.
• Added support for LibreTranslate (self-hosted or public instances) as a new translation backend.
• Added support for Memcached and Redis as caching backends.
• New backend widget to display caching stats and available caching engines.
• Removed the performance warning in the backend, as it was often misleading.
• Improved hreflang support for Google “compatibility”.
• Changed the frontend icons to SVG for improved quality and scalability.
• Fixed debugging infrastructure to prevent 500 errors during debug mode.
• Fixed various PHP warnings and notices, including those in #35.
• Removed code for WPORG version, which will never be updated again.

Note: With this release, PHP 8 is now a minimum requirement, as five years have passed since its initial release and we’re aligning with modern standards for better security and performance. This release marks a significant step forward in performance and flexibility, especially for sites relying on automatic translations. You can download the latest version from our Download Page or update directly if you’re already on the full version.
We hope you enjoy this new version!

This release was ready and packaged about a month ago. Finally adding jQueryUI 1.14.1 support and fixing some long standing bugs in the edit interface. We hope it will not introduce new bugs on your site, but if it does, just contact us here or on our github.

After 16 years of operation and more than two years without a new release, our plugin encountered a widespread challenge known as code rot. This issue arises when functionality degrades over time—even without changes to the plugin’s code—due to external factors. New WordPress releases, updated PHP versions, and shifts in translation services can disrupt carefully designed features.

In version 1.0.9.5, we’ve tackled these challenges, with a primary focus on the translation engines. We removed outdated code and introduced new implementations to restore support for Yandex and Baidu translation services, which had stopped working in recent years. These updates ensure that the translation features are fully operational once again. Additionally, we’ve expanded language support to include new languages added to these translation services over time.

This release reflects our dedication to keeping the plugin reliable and effective, adapting to the evolving landscape of technologies and services.

We’ve introduced a new widget that utilizes standard flag emojis, which have been incorporated into the emoji set over the years. This update simplifies the widget’s code significantly, while also enabling easy customization of the flags to meet your specific needs.

You can check out this new widget in action on our site, where we’ve added a clever CSS trick that makes the current language icon twice as large as the others, achieved with just the following two lines of code!
.transposh_flags{font-size:22px} .tr_active{font-size:44px; float:left}

We hope you enjoy this new version!

16 years ago today version 0.0.1 of the plugin for wordpress was released. This version fixes some php compatibility issues and removes some unneeded code.

I almost forgot how to do a release now, so if something is not working. Please let me know via the “contact us” page.