WordPress Plugin Review: Global Translator
Written by Nile | Posted in Blogging | Posted on 
31-10-2010 | 
4 Comments
Tags: plugin review, translator
This WordPress plugin allows you to put a widget on your site in order to translate your pages into many different languages using a variety of online translator services like Google Translation Services and BabelFish. The plugin was created by David Pozza and has been around since 2006.
This plugin boast to be able to translate over 41 languages. The list of languages includes are: Italian, Korean, Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), Portuguese, English, German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Arabic, Russian, Greek, Dutch, Bulgarian, Czech, Croatian, Danish, Finnish, Hindi, Polish, Romanian, Swedish, Norwegian, Catalan, Filipino, Hebrew, Indonesian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Albanian, Estonian, Galician, Maltese, Thai, Turkish,and Hungarian.
When you click on the flag that represents the language you want to translate your page, the translator will go right to work and within a few minutes, a new page with the translation of it is posted.
My issue is that if you use several templates and different dynamic sidebars, you can only use 1 instance of this plugin unless you put it into the layout before the dynamic php function. Another thing is that the flags are so close together. Perhaps a special css file to space these out would be great. In fact, I may redesign my own flags. Also, I am all for credit, but it is kind of annoying to see the link to the creator. I think an option to remove it would be great.
Another issue is problems when translating occurred that the layout was altered. For example, in a client’s site that translated English to Hungarian, somehow only 1 part of the layout would shift in the translated cached page.
Overall, I think this plugin is really useful. It might not be totally correct in translating pages, but it would be a great help for those needing a quick translation. If you want to be totally accurate, it might be best to manually type and translate the pages.
Have you tried this? Does this seem like something you might use?
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Myself, I probably would not use this plugin as the site stats that I have show that most of my users are either Firefox or Chrome users and few if any of the visitors are coming from non-English speaking countries. Chrome automatically asks users if they want to translate the page if it is not written in whatever the browser settings have for the default language. Firefox has an add-on that can be installed to translate pages as well.
If I had more stats showing IE users or non-English speaking countries, I might try using the plugin though.
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This plug in is really amazing by help of those widgets our site now will be transpose in many languages around the world, by that our site now is understandable by many users around in all nation.