For quite a while I had been using Yahoo’s AltaVist Babelfish translation engine, but now for some reason it appears to not be working. So I have once again switched back to Google’s translation engine. Google had been rather unreliable itself in the past, so I hope it is more stable now. The nice thing about Google is that it provides more language options than Babelfish.
The link to Global Translator plugin download is here: http://www.nothing2hide.net/wp-plugins/wordpress-global-translator-plugin/
I have pasted in some comments from the Global Translator plugin for your reading enjoyment in case you are interested:
Global Translator uses a fast, smart, optimized, self-cleaning and built-in caching system in order to drastically reduce the connections to the translation engines. This feature cannot be optional and is needed in order to prevent from banning by the translation services. For the same reason the translation process will not be immediate and the full translation of the blog could take a while: this is because by default only a translation request every 5 minutes will be allowed (see next section).
The cache invalidation will be automatically (and smartly) handled when a post is created, deleted or updated.
The Info About Global Translator by Chris Hartzog, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 United States License.
