Next release 1.6.1 of xili-language will incorporate an automatic way to choose good sticky posts for home page in each language. To show this new feature, this post is here a sticky post.
To work, it is necessary to check the post in root language (here english) as a sticky post. After, you must add translated posts in each language of this post (here only french post is added and not yet spanish).
Author's UI of english sticky post
At begining (three years ago !), xili-language was dedicated to theme’s developers for multilingual websites. With WordPress 3.0 and his new default theme named “twentyten”, it is now possible to build a multilingual website with very few tasks and without coding something in functions.php file.
Step by step when releasing versions, on this server and this site (in multisite mode), deep tests are done and some new features are added to the plugins of the trilogy (xili-language, xili-dictionary, xili-tidy-tags).
Theme domain (here ‘twentyten’) used for all translatable terms of the theme is automatically detected.
twentyten theme language sub-folder
Nav menu settings UI
xili-language settings UI
June 6th, 2010
dev.xiligroup team
NOTE #1: During the stage of RC (release candidate) of WordPress, feedbacks are welcome both on mono and multisite mode.
NOTE #2: Because updating will keep sometime, the plugins remain WordPress 2.9.x compatible.
This day, WP 3.0-RC1 is available. The multilingual trilogy – xili-language, xili-tidy-tags, xili-dictionary – was regulary tested with nightly built, so this official release is compatible with latest versions (1.5.5 for xili-language, 1.3.3 for xili-tidy-tags and 1.0.6 for xili-dictionary).
The next steps of roadmap: When 3.0 will officially shipped, when added some new features, all the trilogy will jump to a new version 2.0.
Don’t hesitate to keep us informed of results of your tests.
dev.xiligroup.com team
Michel of dev.xiligroup.com will be present at WordCamp Paris. One opportunity to attach a face to plugins users and to present or discuss about xili-language plugin series.
Here the list of plugins to transform WP in multilingual WP :
– xili-language: the core plugin to organize website in multilingual parts and switch the theme language (.mo)
– xili-tidy-tags: to organize tags according languages or semantic groups (trademark, products,…)
– xili-dictionary: to create or edit “live” .mo and .po files in theme’s folder
