Oct 02 2006
GG_Translate Now With Auto-Update
I’ve just posted a new version of GG_Translate in my download section (0.2.27). Those of you that have downloaded the latest version of the weekend will already have a preview as to whats new in this version. This update adds auto-updating of the plugin as soon as I put a new version online. This is, however, a very beta if not alpha version of the auto-updater.
Please note that in order to use the auto-updater your web-server must be allowed to use the fopen in php to open files on remote servers. If you’re not sure whether it does or not then either just try the plugin and if it doesn’t work revert back to an older version, or you can give me a shout and I’ll help you out.
As always the latest version is available on my downloads page.
I’m also going to write up the instructions as to how to create an auto-updating plugin. I also want to make it so that it is an intelligent auto-updater that doesn’t need to download all the plugin files for each update but only those that have changed.
Hey GrinGod,
Great job with the plug-in.
I was wondering if it would be easy for me to somehow alter the translate button to ONLY translate post content (vs the entire page).
Sorry if it’s a simple question, but I have very very little experience when it comes to PHP
Hi Justin,
Its a good question but not a simple answer. The way the plugin works is to simply to provide a link to the translation service with the languages pre-selected.
In order to get just the post section of the page translated I’d need to re-write the plugin to make a server side call to the translation services and pump the returned content back to the client.
It probably is possible but and it would be a really neat feature but my work load at the moment is too great for me to start work on it. It may be something I look into in the future, but I wont promise anything right now.
Hi Gringod,
Awesome…if you do get some freetime and manage to throw something like that together, a quick e-mail to let me know would be highly appreciated! Basically, I already have a translated version of the interface to my entire site but thought it would be cool to offer my posts translated as well (and of course, there’s no way I’ll be doing that by hand :P)
J~
I’ve just installed 0.2.27.
The plugin page says:
0.2.31: There is a new version of GG_Translate available for download.
when I click on download now, it says please wait… and then nothing happens.
Where can I manually download the new version?