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qTranslate – Make Your Wordpress Blog Multi-Lingual

Posted on February 29th, 2008 under Plugins, WordPress
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We generally use online translators to convert sites from one language to another, If it were a wordpress blog you can make available your blog in different different languages without the user needing to translate your blog using online language translator tools. qTranslate is wordpress plugin that does the work of your blog translation and provides buttons to access translations in each article. qTranslate currently comes with 4 languages already builtin – English, German, Simplified Chinese.

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You can also add a new language to the plugin by entering the 2-Letter ISO Language Code.

Check out the Installation guide on how install the plugin.

Download qTranslate from here.

Check out the FAQ Section for any doubts.

NOTE : This plugin makes changes in your wordpress database ?

Answer from their FAQ Section

Yes, it does. When you access the Configuration page, it will check how long category names can be. Wordpress’ default length is 55 characters, which is too short too handle multilingual content. Thats why qTranslate will change it to support up to 255 characters. It won’t alter the database if you already changed it to a different type like text to support even longer texts.

If you want to try this plugin, I suggest you first try it out on your local installation of Wordpress and then on your live blog.

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16 Responses to “ qTranslate – Make Your Wordpress Blog Multi-Lingual ”

  1. Nirmal says:

    Useful to people who has difficulty in understanding english, but not to Indians.

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  2. Venkat says:

    Nirmal » You’r right , but just another feature so that visitors don’t leave just for the reason that they can’t read the language.

  3. ReviewSaurus says:

    i’m sure it’ll be a great boost for various bloggers in various countries…I wish if they can extend it to include indian languages too.

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  4. Shashank says:

    Interesting find there…is there any demo site using that plugin?

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  5. Venkat says:

    Shashank » Shashank qtranslate homepage is using the plugin, there is a Dutsche version of the site, click the flag to see the translation.

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  7. Jawwad says:

    These language plugins are really useful to bring your site/blog to broader level of audience that can’t understand English.

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  8. Enéas Gesing says:

    Nice plugin.

    This will help me a lot.

    Thanks.

  9. Dmytro says:

    “qTranslate currently comes with 4 languages already builtin – English, German, Simplified Chinese.”

    Hm.. Are “Simplified Chinese” two languages really?..

  10. Venkat says:

    @Dmytro: you can check out more about simplified chinese at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Chinese_character . We can also add more language support to the plugin.

  11. I don\’t normally leave comments, but your post really got me thinking! Thanks for this!

  12. Venkat says:

    @Social Bookmarking 2.0: Thanks for your comments. :)

  13. great post,

    is this plugin helps to post indian language too..

    anyhow, great post

  14. SEO Chennai says:

    great plugin..

    really useful for us…
    thanks

  15. Boring Group says:

    We use this here on Taide & Design magazine, no problems, very good

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