What is a child theme ? Example here for multilingual website

Posted on November 15, 2010 by Michel

This post to introduce a new series of posts to explain how with few modifications and the way of child theme of twentyten theme containing just modified files, it possible to create a multilingual website. Here, the child theme is named twentyten-xili and his parent is default shipped twentyten.
In functions.php file of child theme some functions where added to improve multilingual features delivered by xili-language plugin. The child style.css is very short and contains just the lines to format languages menu automatically added to header menu and for widget added in sidebar.
Next post : the child theme content… and the advantage of this approach.

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dev.xiligroup.com website renewed and new release of xili-language trilogy shipped !

Posted on November 11, 2010 by Michel

dev.xiligroup.com website renewed

With the “child theme” approach, and without modification on the parent theme “twentyten”, on our website, we have tested this way to design a new theme. All the datas, posts and presentations plugins (xili-floom-slideshow, sliding tabs,…) were reused without main adjustement.

new release of xili-language trilogy shipped

By reading readme.txt of each plugin of the trilogy (xili-language, xili-tidy-tags, xili-dictionary), you will discover some improvements to facilitate implementation of multilingual features.

Don’t hesitate to use forum !

Hope you enjoy !

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xili-language: 1.8.0 version adds multilingual features for your custom post type !

Posted on October 8, 2010 by dev xiligroup

With version 1.8.0, xili-language, shipped as other version for tests, now offers automatic ways to add multilingual features for custom post types created by you or developers. Soon, (I hope) a ‘how to set’ post with example of custom post type.

Edit Book (Custom post type)

Edit Book (Custom post type)


At the right, you can see the meta boxes to set language of the edited book (here in french by an english writer !) and create linked book in other language if exists.

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xili-tidy-tags plugin version 1.4.2 released !

Posted on October 3, 2010 by Michel

WordPress 3.0.1 (and end of summer) was an opportunity to improve and rewrite some parts of xili-tidy-tags plugin. No deep transformations but deep verification of compatibility with lastest version and obviously for multisite mode. So as presented here (see clouds at right), this plugin brings an original way to organize the tags both by languages or semantic ways.
To download use the WP repository or the internal plugin dashboard updating page.

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Multilingual trilogy in progress: xili-tidy-tags 1.4.1 shipped

Posted on July 28, 2010 by Michel

The release of WordPress 3.0 was an opportunity to improve and rewrite some parts of xili-tidy-tags plugins. No deep transformations but deep verification of compatibility with lastest version and obviously for multisite mode. So as presented here (see clouds at right), this plugin brings an original way to organize the tags both by languages or semantic ways.
To download use the WP repository or the internal plugin updating page.

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