The Google Translator plugin allows WordPress to add a number of alternate languages to your blog.
This plugin is derived from Scott Hough’s WP Translate, but makes a number of changes:
- The Google Translate service is used, which does a much better job of maintaining page layout then Babelfish.
- Height and width attributes are included for all images.
- ‘rel=nofollow’ has been added to all links to prevent search engines from following them.
- Alternate text for all images have been improved.
- The plugin fully validates under XHTML.
Download
Download Google Translate v.3.24.07
Installation
Google Translate should work in all versions of WordPress 1.5 and newer.
- To install the plugin simply unzip then upload the entire google-translate directory to your plugins folder (/wp-content/plugins/)
- Activate the plugin within the WordPress Administration Plugins area.
Usage
To add Google Translate to your web page you will need to edit your templates to include the function.
For a horizontal layout add the following:
<?php if(function_exists(‘google_translate’)) google_translate(2); ?>
For a vertical layout add the following:
<?php if(function_exists(‘google_translate’)) google_translate(1); ?>
Use As a Sidebar Widget
If you would rather include the translation in a Widget sidebar you will first need to add a plugin which allows you to execute PHP within the sidebar. I recommend the ExecPHP plugin.
After installation and activation of ExecPHP you can include the Google Translate function within the sidebar Widget area.
License / Warranty
This plugin is distributed freely, just like the original. Feel free to use it, change it to meet your needs, etc. If however you re-distribute it you must include links and reference to Scott Hough and John Pozadzides.
If you find this little widget helps you out and you’d like to return the favor, please provide a link back to One Man’s Blog. Or at least drop me a comment below to let me know it helped out.
Enjoy!
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Hey John P.,
i would like to thank you so much for this free translation tool, I searched so long for that kind of wordpress plugin but only got commerical ones.
I immediately set it up on my website http://www.picsandclips.de and it works perfect.
This is by far one of the best wordpress plugin I`ve ever seen.
Chris Palmer
Great script, tanks you. I’m trying to implament it in my website – http://www.turnkeyforms.com but I wander why not use follow. Google duplicated content issue?
Hi John,
I downloaded your plugin, but no it doesnt work. There’s nothing on display in my sidebar when I added the code in my sidebar.php file.
Nope, unfortunately I don’t see any flags. :(
I’m not using widgets, just adding the php code.
Darrin,
Can you give me a link to your blog, and also tell me what version of Wordpress you are running?
John
John…Thanks for your plugin…However, I have the same problem on my blog. Nothing happens…I tried horizontal and vertical layout…did everything that I was supposed to, but nothing seems to be working…not in the sidebar, or header.php or footer. I am not well versed with php…can you help me out here..it must be small tweak that must be needed…Thanks
Darrin and Trakin,
I’m sorry you had those problems. It looks like there was a problem with my insert statement. I’m not sure why because I’m certain I’ve tested it properly before and it was working. Furthermore I see nothing wrong with it now…
Anyway, please use the following to insert the flags into the page, but only after enabling the plugin. For horizontal:
<?php google_translate(2); ?>For vertical:
<?php google_translate(1); ?>Let me know how that turns out for you. In some installations you might need to add some style to your stylesheet and I might need to adjust the plugin a bit for you to get it to look nice. But I’ll wait to hear back before making changes to it.
John
John….perfect…Works like a charm… Really appreciate all the help you provided….Just wanted to know if you are going to have future versions of this plugin, which will have permalinks…the one that global translator or angshuman’s paid translator plugin has ???
That would be great….It helps in search Engine traffic. I guess the pages converted via this plugin may not be indexed by google…
Trakin,
I specifically designed this plugin not to be followed by search engines out of fear of being penalized for having duplicate content. However, it is very easy to change that…
If you edit the PHP document and delete ALL instance of,
rel="nofollow"it will make all the various languages discoverable.Have fun! :-)
John
Thank you John… :) you have been a great help !
This is exactly what I was looking for. I hope it works, as I tried some other solutions which failed.
Hi John,
it works great, just like the other guys over here I am a happy user of this wordpress plugin.
But could you add in a future version of this plugin more languages like arabic and some other exotic ones?
I don’t know why it is doing this. It seems a little strange to me.
It does all you say but when I click on ‘Chinese’ or ‘Russian’ I get a large white box in the left top corner and the page never stops loading. All the other languages work normally so I don’t know what is going on. I only get this white box when using firefox (2.0.0.4). I tested it out with IE and the white box never shows up.
Thanks you 4 nice help & nice blog. I have asite under construction on googlepages can i add a hyperlink 4image except 4 html codes because i need add another languages
Hi,
I couldn’t get this working on my blog. I got WP Translate from Scot working though so not sure why it is.
Tried to use it in a sidebar widget and nothing showed. WP Translate is in an working
Tried to use it out of the widget area and none of the icons were showing and I found that it had not picked up my full blog URL (it’s in a ‘blog’ subdirectory) but the plugin was looking for all the images in root/wp-content….etc so wonder if that’s why the whole plugin is bust.
Any advice?
I reinstalled my blog to the root so it all runs from http://www.yourinternettravelguide.com/.
The flags show up but all the links are only ever to the index.php page and never to the page or post I have selected.
Seem to be so close….
Sorry, been a dunce. Doesn’t work with permalinks on…
Any news on this being available?
I implemented your plug-in this afternoon and like it a lot. I wanted to have readers go off to Google to read, rather than trying to integrate the translation into my site ’cause I can’t make WP permalinks work at all, which the other translation plug-ins pretty much require. BTW, the Google translations are really pretty bad, but better than nothing.
Your plug-in does not work with blogs that are installed in subdirectories because you made the assumption that the icons would be in /wp-content/plugins/google-translate/ which is incorrect if a blog (like mine) isn’t located at the DocRoot of the server. This is probably what “David” (above) was running into.
If you’ll contact me by email (John) I’ll send you the fixed-up file. It basically requires using the function get_bloginfo(‘wpurl’) to pick up the URL for the installation directory and then dropping that into the SRC= in the code where you inserted the flag icons.
David,
Find:
function google_translate($vh) {
$currenturl = $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"];
if ( $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] '') {
$currenturl .= "?" . $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];
}
Replace with:
function google_translate($vh) {
$currenturl = $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME'"];
if ( $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] '') {
$currenturl .= $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
}
Good luck.
I tried this recommendation, but after I tried to save the changes Wordpress inactivated the plugin due to errors. JUst wanted to double-check to see if this indeed is correct?
I pasted here the solution but it seems the code can’t be properly included . You just need to add two angle brackets together (first the ‘less than’, and after the ‘greater than’) without an space between them, after this:
['REQUEST_URI']in the third line.
It works Рtr̬s bien!
Google now offers Hindi translation, it’s not in this plugin yet (as of May 28, 2008), but all you have to do is add the Indian flag image to the images folder and then add this line of code, just underneath the Chinese translation:
<a title="Hindi" rel="nofollow" href="http://translate.google.com/translate?u=&langpair=en%7Chi&hl=en&ie=UTF8"> HindiHi and thanks for the great plugin. I was able to install it and it works fine. I just needed to change the source language, as it is only english to *. I have one question for everybody who is familiar with wordpress and google translate. When we install this plugin in our blog, does google index the translated pages?
Thank you very much. The translation feature works very well. The only change I made was to translate the language names from English into each language. Take a look:
How do I add Arabic option in it?
thanks
Great job! Please add latvian language to next release!
nice work thanks
can you add hindi in this
Hmmm will this change my existing permalink structure? Because I am much worried about changing the permalink itself.
I installed and activated the ExecPHP plugin, added the in the sidebar widget and in the functions.php, but it still does not work. What am i doing wrong?
Thanks for your help
Also, I’m getting this error when I activate the translate plugin:
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/indrasuc/public_html/familyofentrepreneurs.com/wp-content/themes/indra/functions.php:30) in /home/indrasuc/public_html/familyofentrepreneurs.com/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 391Thanks for the explanation, but I’m either too new at this or too dumb to understand your simple instructions about editing “the templates” by adding the following code to include the Google Translate function.
For a horizontal layout add the following:
For a vertical layout add the following:
Where is this added to? On what template? I’ve added the code to the bottom of each of the php template files but nothing appears on any of the pages or within any of the posts.
Appreciate your help. Thanks in advance.
Thankyou im getting a lot of traffic from non english sites this is brilliant.
Thanks
Thanks.
The pulgin is helping each readers
Please add Ukrainian language to next release!
I installed the plugin, and updated the templates to include the code
but my blog is not rendering the function. It is like it’s not finding the function.
any ideas?
Google Translate now support Turkish and more few language.
Please update this plugin and support other languages.
where can i paste this line? in wich archive of my template?
php if(function_exists(’google_translate’)) google_translate(2);
thanks
Thanks for this tidbit, I appreciate you and will be back often….
I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. I just added you to my Google News Reader. Keep up the good work. Look forward to reading more from you in the future.
Yes this is going to help improve my blogs seo as well as worldwide visitors.
Don’t you think it may be a good idea to tell us non-coding non-programing types a little more about where to paste your text?
I note that others have asked this same question, but have failed to see your response.
Thanks
Ken
Ken,
As I said in the post, “you will need to edit your templates to include the function”.
Unfortunately, every single WordPress theme is different. And people will want this in different places on their site. There is no way in the universe for me to tell you how or where specifically to put the code in your theme.
I suggest asking whomever you got your theme from where you can use this code as they should be able to tell you very quickly.
John P.
This is far supierior to Babelfish, although I thought Bebelfish was pretty good at the time of its release.
A few more language options would be beneficial. I expect these will gradually be added in due course.
Many thanks for this great tool.
Hey John! Can you explain to me how to install this on the kubrick theme? I need to add the horizontal layout on the top right side of the theme header. Thanks for your consideration :-)
hi, i tried to add translator on my blog, but it does not appear, can u pls suggest how to add,? thanks
so wonderful. It is like a bridge between different people using different language.
Wow.. fantastic,,
i will place the Plugin in my WP .hehe
Hey,
First up, thanks for bringing this translator thing to my notice.
But, doesn’t this work any longer?
I tried it for my site healthburden.com, but my attempts failed. :(
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