WP Google Language Transliteration Plugin
Today I am glad to release the WP google Language Transliteration plugin for wordpress blogs. You can now maintain a wordpress blog in any one or more of the following languages – Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Malayalam, Kannada and Arabic easily.
What can be done with WP google Language Transliteration plugin?
- Wordpress Post or Page Content can be written or edited in all supported languages on the HTML editor of wordpress (and not on the visual editor)
- Wordpress Post or Page titles can be written or edited in all supported languages
- Wordpress Post or Page URL slugs can be written or edited in all supported languages
- Wordpress Post Categories and Tags can be written or edited in all supported languages
- Lets your blog/site visitors to comment in any one or more of the supported languages
In effect, you can easily create and manitain a wordpress blog in Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Malayalam, Kannada or Arabic or a combination of all these languages.
How to install WP google Language Transliteration plugin?
You can install this plugin like any other wordpress plugin. Unzip the contents of the downloaded zip file into your `/wp-content/plugins/` directory and activate it. That is all!!!
You will find a language dropdown getting added on to your wordpress admin pages, namely “Add New Post” and “Add New Page”.Simply choose the language of you choice and start editing the content phonetically in English script. Every word gets automatically transliterated, upon pressing the space bar, on your keyboard. Note that this is not the same as translation — it is the sound of the words that are converted, from one character set to the other (Roman to Devangiri), and not their meaning.
This plugin also adds a language selection dropdown to your comment form, thereby letting your visitors to comment in languages of their choice!!! Find below a few screenshots.
This plugin makes use of Google APIs to integrate transliteration to wordpress.Currently the Google APIs expose only five languages for transliteration.the plugin will automatically support more languages including Marathi, Bengali, Gujarathi, Nepali and more as soon as Google exposes APIs to all those languages.
If you have more questions on Transliteration usage, you may check out the Google article here. the plugin has been submitted for inclusion in wordpress repository.
Download the plugin here. You will find it absolutely amazing to start your professional lingual blogs and spice up your personal blogs with live multi lingual editing support.
Enjoy blogging in your own language on wordpress platform!!!
I dont want arabic, kannada and telugu, so what to do?
The dropdown lists all available languages but you can choose what you want.In this version, there is no feature to restrict the language choices.
Thanks…
I liked this plugin.
Today I’ll try this plugin and let you know the result.
i’ve a serious problem with this plugin on a wordpressmu site i’m coming up with.
1.It keeps throwing ‘onload is undefined’ on all posts and pages. firefox firebug pointed me to this code. may i know what is going on exactly?
44 google.setOnLoadCallback(onLoad);
2. How do I change the default language?
this is what call the script. I haven’t tested this for WPMU. not sure why you get it.
oki,in html editor, cudnt see any languages in that drop down button. its empty. wat am I wanna do ? am I missd anything?
check whether you are connected to the internet…
yess am connected,
without internet how can I installed and tested
You should test it only by connecting to internet…also check whether javascript is tuned on in your browser…
I am unable to see the list of languages in Type in drop down list, I am connect to internet, and my browser supports javascript, can any body help me please
Installed the plugin. But unable to see any lang in the drop down. pls help
Can you let me know the version you downloaded….
Hi, even i am not able to use the plugin. i get the language drop down in Firefox , but after i type any text, it does not translate any text. it still displays in English itself. downloaded v.01 of your plugin. i m using Firefox 3.0.10, tried it in Firefox 3.5 too.
in ie7 i am not getting the drop down itself.
also, the link for download you have given above does not seem to be working. it says file not found on the wordpress.org
also, this is the Javascript error i get in IE7,
Webpage error details
User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; .NET CLR 3.5.21022)
Timestamp: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:28:26 UTC
Message: Exception in makeTransliteratable: Invalid textfield id newtag
Line: 3
Char: 15
Code: 0
URI: http://www.google.com/uds/api/elements/1.0/23226509013e52ac5d30d65ae4af902d/transliteration.I.js
@Ubaid I have fixed and released a new version for that newtag error. Can you check out?
Hi Suhas, Quick response of yours. However, as i mentioned before, i am not able to download the plugin from here. The download link over there says “File Not Found”. Can you provide me with an alternate link for download. sorry if i am missing out few known things here
Sorry for the previous post, got it downloaded. however i dont see anything in the drop down, both ofr firefox and ie7. get this js error in ie7,
transliterationControl is Null or Not an object.
i get this only when i click on the checkbox on the post-new page..
I am not sure why you get that error as I find it working correctly in firefox and IE6 now. I don’t have IE 7 to test it. Are you behind a firewall? or does your access to google servers restricted?
How about comments box and when you try to create a new page?
detailed error msg, on IE8
Webpage error details
User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; .NET CLR 3.5.21022)
Timestamp: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:11:25 UTC
Message: ‘transliterationControl’ is null or not an object
Line: 78
Char: 9
Code: 0
URI: http://thecanaratimes.com/epaper/wp-content/plugins/wp-google-lang-transliteration/transliterate.js?ver=7558
still facing the same issue, not able to populate anything in the drop down. for post as well as pages. comments r disabled in mine, so cant chek those. i am not behind any firewall and able to access all google servers too. tried on firefox 3.0.14 and firefox 3.5 as well as ie7 and ie8 now… should search for someone with ie6..
Is there an option to set Default Language, since right now Arabic is shown as default language
The dropdown has the languages in alphabetic order.So you will have to manually select the language.
Great plugin. Im using this plugin with out much problem in my WPMU blog. But, the size of the textarea in HTML editor mode is quite large and exceeding the size of the screen. Can you please explain if there is any method to resolve that bug.
Thanks in advance.
@chandu, i don’t think it has got anything to do with this plugin…