6 Plugins to Translate Your Blog
There are many advantages and disadvantages if you chose to take your blog to an international level.
Here’s a list of plugins that will do just that:
1. Wordpress Global Translator Plugin by Nothing2Hide is one of the most popular translation WordPress Plugins. It is a stand alone WordPress Plugin, which means it doesn’t require any additional files to work. Just activate the Plugin and it puts a small table of international flags in the header of your blog which, when clicked, will translate your blog content into that flag’s language.
2. Wordpress Translation Plugin by carlos quiles is a very simple php script that adds translations from and into most language pairs offered by Google, Altavista and Tranexp. Unlike other scripts, like this plugin and this widget, which are also Wordpress translator utilities, dnghu does not use flag images, it is probably the simplest possible script you can write to add this functionality, and it should be valid XHTML.3. Wordpress Translate by Monosylabic Manifesto is a simple drop in way for users to view your blog in their language. Its easy for any most users to add this functionality to their site.
4. Translate WordPress Widget by Trev’s Travels it’s a simple plugin that works with Google to provide translations. It includes a translation flag bar. Simple and easy.
5. GG_Translate by Grin God is another Wordpress plugin that provides site users with links to translate the blog into their own language. The plugin detects which languages the users browser will accept and, if there are any which are different to the blogs published language, it will provide links to translations in those languages. For translations the plugin uses the Google and Altavista Babel translation engines, favouring the Babel engine over the Google engine. If no translations are available for a particular translation a link will not be provided.
6. Angsuman’s Translator Plugin is one of the most popular translation plugins out there. It provides automatic machine translation of your blog in thirteen different languages - German, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Dutch, Swedish, Greek, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean and Chinese. The only downside is that it costs USD $30 to download. This includes six months free technical support and free lifetime upgrades.
It’s up to you if which one to use. I prefer the Wordpress Global Translator Plugin 
New ImageShack Uploader Plugin for WordPress
I think Imageshack.us is the best solution when it comes to free image hosting.
All the uploading process is made easy with ImageShack Uploader Plugin for WordPress.
ImageShack is a free easy-to-use hosting service which allows you to upload your images and share them with others. You can embed these images directly into your website and use the auto generated thumbnails.
What does this plugin do?
This plugin allows you to upload images from your WordPress post screen and to insert them with the thumbnail into your post with a few clicks.
You can download the plugin from here.
Installation and usage instructions can be found here.
New Version of Wp-Amazon Plugin Available
With WP-Amazon, the Amazon product catalog is available right from WordPress. This plugin will allow you to search Amazon as you compose your post or page entry.
Complete Features List
* Uses Amazon E-Commerce Service 4.0
* Support for Amazon Associates IDs. For more information about the Amazon Associates Program, visit their site.
* Supports copying Amazon images or links to the WordPress visual editor
* Supports search across all Amazon product search indices
* Supports searching across multiple Amazon country sites
* Now works with WordPress 2.1
You can download the plugin from here.
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Google Sitemap Generator Beta version:3.0b6 is Out
This is another great plugin which I use on all my blogs.
This plugin generates a XML-Sitemap compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog. This format is supported by Google, YAHOO and MSN Search.
Update 3 (2007-01-23 v. 3.0b6):
- sitemap.xml.gz was not compressed
- YAHOO update-notification was PHP5 only (Thanks to Joseph Abboud!)
- More WP 2.1 optimizations
- Reduced memory usage with PHP5
You can download it from here.
If you are using UTW (Ultimate Tag Warrior) check this addon to include your tag pages in the sitemap.
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WordPress 2.1 Plugin: WP-PostViews 1.10
This is a great plugin that I use on my other blogs.
It enables you to display how many times a post had been viewed. It will not count registered member views, but that can be changed easily.
Updates:
- Version 1.10 (01-02-2007)
- NEW: Works For WordPress 2.1 Only
- NEW: Localization WP-PostViews
- NEW: Added Function To Get Most Viewed Post By Category ID
- FIXED: Views Not Counting In Some Cases
Installation, upgrade and using instructions cand be foud in the readme file in the archive.
You can download it from here.
Sociable 2.0 Released
Push.cx released yesterday the 2nd version of the Sociable bookmarking plugin.
2.0 contains plenty of new features: 61 social bookmarking sites, subtler icons to avoid clashing with your theme, translation into German, French, Hungarian, and Italian, and more.
It lays the groundwork to expand into more languages and more blog engines, so 2007 is going to be bigger than ever.
You can see the demo on my website.
You can download the plugin from here.
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Top Posts by Category Plugin
You need a way to present your top posts up front and you need an easy and automated way to do it.
Lucky for you Wordpress fanatics, help is definitely around the corner.
The answer comes in Top Post by Category plugin.
Plugin Features
* You can choose between displaying top visited posts or top commented posts.
* You can choose to diplay top posts by category or you can display the top posts regardless of category (or as I would like to call it ala Royal Rumble)
* You can choose to display the actual number of visits or comments for each post featured on the best list.
* You can control the number of top posts to display, i.e. display N top posts per category.
You can download the plugin from here.
You can see a demo here.
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