=== Global Translator ===
Tags: translator, multilanguage, automatic translator, google translations, babelfish, promt, freetranslations, widget
Author: Davide Pozza
Contributors: 
Donate link: http://www.nothing2hide.net/donate_global_translator.php
Requires at least: 2.3
Tested up to: 2.6
Stable Tag: 1.0.4

Automatically translates your blog in fourteen different languages!

== Description ==

Global Translator automatically translates your blog in the following fourteen different languages:
English, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Arabic, Russian, 
Greek, Dutch and Norwegian.
The number of available translations will depend on your blog language and the translation engine you will chose to use.
Main features:

* Four different translation engines: Google Translation Engine, Babel Fish, Promt, FreeTranslations
* Search Engine Optimized: it uses the permalinks by adding the language code at the beginning of all your URI. 
	For example the english version on www.domain.com/mycategory/mypost will be automatically transformed in 
	www.domain.com/en/mycategory/mypost 
* Fast Caching System: new fast, smart, optimized, self-cleaning and built-in caching system. Drastically reduction of the risk of temporarily ban from translation engines. 
* Fully configurable layout: you can easily customize the appearance of the translation bar by choosing between a TABLE 
	or DIV layout for the flags bar and by selecting the number of translations to make available to your visitors 
* No database modifications: Global Translator is not intrusive. It doesn't create or alter any table on your database: this feature permits to obtain better performances.

For the latest information and changelog visit the website

http://www.nothing2hide.net/wp-plugins/wordpress-global-translator-plugin/

== Installation ==

1. 	Upload the folder "global-translator" to the "wp-content/plugins" directory.
2. 	Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress. 
3.	From the main menu choose "Options->Global Translator" and select 
		your blog language and your preferred configuration options then select "Update Options".

How to upgrade

If upgrading from 0.9 or higher, just overwrite the previous version, otherwise uninstall the previous 
version and follow the Installation instructions.

== Configuration ==

If your theme is widged-enabled, just choose "Presentation->Widgets" from the administration main menu
and drag the "Global translator" widget on the preferred position on your sidebar.
If your theme is not widgetized, just add the following php code (usually to the sidebar.php file):  

<?php if(function_exists("gltr_build_flags_bar")) { gltr_build_flags_bar(); } ?>

After this simple operation, a bar containing the flags that represents all the available translations 
for your language will appear on your blog.

== Frequently Asked Questions ==


= White page or Page Not Found (404) when clicking on a translation flag =

This could be due to a change of the permalinks structure of your blog, to a conflict with another plugin or to a custom 
.htaccess file which doesn't permit Global Translator to add its custom permalink rules. Try to refresh the Global Translator 
rewrite rules just pressing the "Update Options" button from the Global Translator admin page. If the problem persists, 
try also to deactivate all the other existing plugins and check your .htaccess file and comment out all the non-standard rewrite rules. 
If you discover a conflicting plugin please send me an email (davide at nothing2hide.net).

= "Sorry, the translation engine is temporarily not available. Please try again later" message when using Google Translations engine =

You're using an old version of the plugin. Please upgrade to 1.0 or later.

= "This page has not been translated yet. The translation process could take a while: please come back later." message when trying to access a translated page =

In order to prevent from banning by the translation services, only a translation request every 5 minutes will be allowed. This will permit to fully translate
your blog whithout any interruption; this message will completely disappear when all the pages of your blog will be cached.
Remember that this message will also appear if you're currently being banned by the translation engine: this could happen if for example your blog shares the
same ip address with other blogs using older versions of Global Translator.

= The translated page has a bad/broken layout =

This is due to the translation engine action. I cannot do anything in order to prevent this problem :-)
I suggest you to try all the translation engines in order to choose the best one for your blog layout

= How do I upgrade Global Translator? =

In general this just requires that you replace the existing files with the new ones. Sometimes its a good idea to delete all 
the files in wp-content/plugins/global-translator/ and re-upload them fresh, but if you're upgrading from version 0.9 or later you 
should consider to maintain the cache dir, otherwise all the already translated pages will be lost.

= I've just changed my permalinks structure or just upgraded Wordpress to a newer version and Global Translator doesn't translate anymore =

Everytime the permalinks structure of your blog changes, the custom rules previously added by Global Translator are overriden.
To solve the problem you must just refresh the Global Translator Options ("Update Options" button) on the administrative area.

= I've removed one or more available translations but the search engines continue to try to index the corresponding urls =

When you remove one or more translations, the plugin will begin to return a 404 Not Found for all the corresponding translated pages.
In order to notify a search engine that one or more urls are not available anymore you should add a deny rule on your robots.txt file.
For example if you decide to remove the German translation you should modify your robots.txt as follows:
User-agent: *
[....]
Disallow: /de/*

= How can I discover if my blog is currently banned by the translation engine? =

Go to the Global Translator admin page. If your blog has been temporarily banned, a warning message will appear inside the "Translation engine connection" section.