Developing the Translation Plugin

Recently, I have been working for the WordPress Translation Plugin with AJAX features past few days. I have almost completed the plugin and ready to release the next version which takes care of the few issues that I noticed and from the feedback of the the users who are using this plugin.

Some of the issues which are sorted out and still working on some new features, tweaks. This plugin will surely help you in getting traffic from people searching for other languages as I have seen that my translation pages are getting indexed by Google and showing up for search results.

Heavy use of Translation engine

This plugin uses the Google Translation Engine to translate the page. Every time a user requests for translation, the English text for the From Language text is sent by splitting the text in a batch of 500 characters and the result is Joined and displayed. There are chances that your site may be banned temporally if the usage is high. Other problem is the time, it takes some time to get the page translated by the translation engine.

Solution – The translation is done for the first time and the translation is saved in the Database, and the next time the translation is requested, the saved Translation is used to display translated page and no request is sent to the translation engine next time.

Images, Links not displayed properly

When you send the text to the translation engine, you cannot send more than 500 characters, so you use a loop to break the text to less than 500 words and there are chances that the links or image tags break.

Solution – What I have done is I replace the image tags and the links with some code which does not get translated and later replaced by the original tags.

I am still working on the next version and will update the WordPress Plugin Directory where the plugin is hosted. You can install the plugin right now. You will get the automatic plugin update message once the latest version is updated.

If you have any feature request or find some bugs, please inform me so that I can work on that and try to implement in the next release