The Microsoft AJAX Translation WordPress plugin offers a “Translate” button that allows readers to translate your blog’s posts into a specified language with a quick, light ajax call to the Microsoft Translator API.
Why Microsoft AJAX Translation?
As of December 1, 2011, Google Translate API v1 is no longer available; it was officially deprecated due to the substantial economic burden. Google Translate API v2 is now available as a paid service only, and the number of requests your application can make per day is limited.
This is dramatic news. All of those “free” programs that hitchhiked on Google Translate are history. A lot of wordpress plugins that depended on the free Google Translation Engine also not work any more.
Fortunately, Microsoft still provide a free translation API for programmer. That’s why I decide to develop this plugin, which uses Microsoft Translator API. It is a surprisingly adequate substitute for Google Translate.
Features
- 38 languages supported. Powered by Microsoft’s state-of-the-art statistical machine translation system.
- Detects your source language automatically. If your source text changes to more than one language it may get confused.
- Detects visitor’s language automatically. Show the translate button in your readers’ prefered language according to their broswer UA.
- AJAX translation. Better user experience as no refresh is needed.
- On demand translation. The plugin can translate just the content of the post, and full page translation is also supported.
- Flexible to exclude certain posts and pages. Even a section of a page can be excluded from being translated by a jQuery selector.
Related Links
- For the latest information and changelog visit the developer’s website
- Google Translate API v2 Terms of Service
- Microsoft Translator API Terms of Use
Credits
This plugin is forked from the Google AJAX Translation wordpress plugin. Thanks Libin, alquanto and monodistortion for their previous work.
This plugin uses the jquery-translate plugin and the Microsoft Translator API .
Support
Have questions or suggestions for this plugin?
Please ask in the forums here.
- Please start a new thread for your question, problem, or suggestion. Use the tag
microsoft-ajax-translationso that it shows up in the same list. - Please include as much information as possible like:
WordPress version, Microsoft AJAX Translation version, a link to your web page - Most problems seem to be theme related so check to see if the plugin works in the default theme.
Download & install the zip archive
The plugin package installer can be downloaded from the WP2E project tab called “code”.
1 – Select the version to download if this option is available otherwise the “latest” version of the main plugin will be used.
2 – After downloading the zip archive install the plugin package installer in you local environment and activate the script from the plugin list.
3 – Under the section “Plugins” of the admin dashboard you should see a new “Dependencies & Licenses” link. Follow the instructions from this panel to finalize the installation of the missing dependencies.
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- Give a name to your project
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- Download the Installer Package
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- Install & activate the plugin locally
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- Install the suggested dependencies
Tips: Use the WP2E panel to add/suggest new dependencies to the local installation. Press F5 in the list of dependencies if the changes are not displayed right away.