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DevBrothers Simple Translator is a simple and elegant solution for adding instant translation to your WordPress site using Google Translate.
<h4>Key Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Completely free – uses free Google Translate Widget</li>
<li>No API keys required – no registration or payment needed</li>
<li>5 widget styles – dropdown, flags, flags+dropdown, text links, buttons</li>
<li>Shortcode – <code>[devbsitr_translator]</code> for insertion anywhere</li>
<li>PHP function – <code>devbsitr_translator()</code> for insertion in theme code</li>
<li>Floating widget – fixed in corner of screen</li>
<li>Language configuration – choose needed languages from 10 available</li>
<li>Instant translation – page translation “on the fly” in browser</li>
<li>Hide Google toolbar – clean look without Google branding</li>
<li>DevBrothers integration – unified admin panel</li>
<li>Responsive design – works on all devices</li>
</ul>
<h4>Available Languages</h4>
<ul>
<li>English</li>
<li>Deutsch (German)</li>
<li>Français (French)</li>
<li>Español (Spanish)</li>
<li>Italiano (Italian)</li>
<li>Português (Portuguese)</li>
<li>中文 (Chinese)</li>
<li>日本語 (Japanese)</li>
<li>한국어 (Korean)</li>
<li>العربية (Arabic)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Widget Styles</h4>
<ol>
<li>Dropdown – classic dropdown list</li>
<li>Flags – country flags for switching</li>
<li>Flags + Dropdown – flags in dropdown list</li>
<li>Text Links – text links (RU | EN | DE)</li>
<li>Buttons – stylish buttons</li>
</ol>
<h4>Usage</h4>
Shortcode: 
 [devbsitr_translator]
With parameters: 
 [devbsitr_translator style=”flags” languages=”en,de,fr”]
PHP code:
 
With parameters: 
 ‘text_links’]); ?>
<h4>Technical Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Uses official Google Translate Widget</li>
<li>No API key required</li>
<li>Does not load server (translation in browser)</li>
<li>Saves selected language in localStorage</li>
<li>Automatically restores language on next visit</li>
<li>Completely free without limits</li>
</ul>
<h3>External services</h3>
This plugin integrates with Google Translate service to provide instant website translation functionality.
The plugin loads the Google Translate JavaScript library from translate.google.com to enable real-time translation of website content in the user’s browser.
The following data is sent to Google Translate: 
* Page content when a user selects a different language 
* The selected language preference 
* Browser and device information (as part of standard HTTP requests)
Translation is performed “on the fly” in the user’s browser. The plugin does not create separate pages for each language and translations are not indexed by search engines.
This service is provided by Google LLC: Terms of Service (https://policies.google.com/terms), Privacy Policy (https://policies.google.com/privacy).
Note: Google Translate may collect anonymous usage statistics according to Google’s privacy policy. The plugin uses the free Google Translate Widget which does not require API keys or registration.
<h3>Additional Info</h3>
<h4>Support</h4>
support@devbrothers.ru
<h4>Technology</h4>
The plugin uses Google Translate Element API – the official free widget from Google for translating websites.

DevBrothers Simple Translator

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The GTS Translation plugin provides human quality translation by allowing you to combine automatic translation and human post-editing (crowdsourcing). Your blog content is initially translated by our translation server. The content is then post-edited by human translators through our online editing system. You can use the GTS community of translators, or you can assign the post-editing to your own community of translators to maintain complete control of the process.
When you use the GTS Translation plugin, translated content is cached in your WordPress database and indexed by search engines. This will increase the traffic to your website and grow your international readership.
Features:
<ul>
<li>Guaranteed to increase your traffic by at least 30% after 2 months; some customers have seen over 100% increase in traffic</li>
<li>Supports over 30 languages</li>
<li>Uses private, secure translation server</li>
<li>Publish translated content immediately or following review</li>
<li>Crowdsourcing: create your own community of translators or use our community</li>
<li>SEO: translates Permalink URL names and meta tags</li>
<li>Custom online, side-by-side editor makes post-editing easy</li>
<li>Translated posts can be retweeted</li>
</ul>
<h3>Uninstalling</h3>
Simply click the “Delete” link in the plugin management window. This will delete all of your translated data, so 
please be careful!
<h3>Virtual Host Setup</h3>
<h3>How to setup the Virtual Host feature on the GTS Plugin</h3>
By default, the translated versions of your website/blog resolves to a URL address which is a subdirectory of your site’s URL address. For example, 
the Spanish version of your site resolves to http://mywebsite.com/language/es.
With the GTS Translation Plugin Virtual Host feature you can publish translated versions of yor website/blog under a separate subdomain or top-level 
domain (TLD). So for example, if your blog is www.mywebsite.com you can serve the Spanish version from www.mywebsite.es. Alternately, you can use 
 subdomains (e.g. es.mywebsite.com) so that you don’t have to buy a domain for each language.
To implement the virtual hosts feature, follow these steps:
<h3>1. Configure DNS</h3>
For Top Level Domains:
<ol>
<li>Register your new domain (e.g. www.mywebsite.es.) with a recognized domain registrar.</li>
<li>In your DNS zone, set the A record for www.mywebsite.es to point to the IP address of your web server.</li>
</ol>
For Subdomains:
<ol>
<li>Create a CNAME alias for your web server (e.g. es.mywebsite.com)</li>
</ol>
How to complete these steps will depend on your hosting provider. If you get stuck, please follow up with your support team.
<h3>2. Configure your Web Server</h3>
Please note that all of the translated blogs will be hosted from the same WordPress installation as your current blog.
For Hosted Blogs:
Your hosting provider will provide a control panel to map a hostname to a Document Root. For each translated host name, enter the exact same Document 
Root as your blog.
For Self-hosted Blogs:
These instructions are only valid for Apache. If you use IIS or another web server, please consult the relevant documentation.
First off, you need to be set up with Name Based Virtual Hosts (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/vhosts/name-based.html). Once you have your blog’s 
virtual host set up, add the new hostname to the ServerAlias directive.
<blockquote>
<pre><code><VirtualHost *:80>

 ServerName www.mywebsite.com
 ServerAlias www.mywebsite.es
 DocumentRoot /path/to/wordpress/install

 # Other configuration here...

</VirtualHost>
</code></pre>
</blockquote>
If you have multiple aliases, remember that the ServerAlias can be a list or can include wildcards…it can save time!
<h3>3. Configure the GTS Plugin</h3>
This is the easiest part:
<ol>
<li>Go to the “GTS Settings” admin page.</li>
<li>Enter the host name in the “Virtual Host” input next to the desired language.</li>
<li>Click the “Save Changes” button.</li>
</ol>
Voila, translated links will point to your new host!
<h3>Security</h3>
While providing high quality translation with our crowdsourced post-editing functionality, it’s of the utmost importance 
to ensure the security of your blog. We provide functionality that is out-of-band of the traditional WordPress publishing 
cycle. As such, our plugin adds a hook into your blog that allows GTS to programmatically update the translated content 
in your local WordPress database. We’ve put a lot of thought into ensuring that our system can use this hook while locking 
it against any potential malicious users.
The first step to securing our system is to make sure that it’s really you and your blog requesting that your blog be 
signed up for translation. First, we only accept registration requests that originate from the WP admin page of the blog 
that will be translated. When the user clicks off of the admin page, a digital fingerprint is created and saved to your 
WP database, and then it’s sent over an SSL-encrypted channel to our server. When the registration request reaches our 
server, we will open an HTTP connection back to the requesting blog and verify that a) it has our plugin installed, and b) 
using an encryption technique called hashing, that the fingerprint matches. If one of those checks fail, we won’t register 
 the blog for translation.
Now that we’ve verified the blog, we’ll assign you a Blog ID and an API Access Key. These will be automatically added to 
your configuration panel via the registration panel, plus they will be sent to your administrator email address. We will 
use these two strings for identifying your blog and to ensure that information isn’t tampered either en-route to us. It 
will also be used by your blog to verify that translated content posted back to your blog is legitimate. Again, we use 
an encryption technique called hashing. Whenever your blog sends a translation request to us or we send translated content 
back to you, we create a signature (or hash) of that content PLUS the API Access Key (if you’re really interested in details, 
using the SHA-1 algorithm). Provided that the API Access Key is kept secret, this technique is extremely secure and resistant 
to tampering. The odds of a malicious person guessing your API key are astronomical : more than 1 in 10^229. However, 
as with any password, security depends on keeping it secret. If at any time, you think that your key has been compromised, 
GTS will deactivate the current key and issue you a new one.
Other measures we take to secure data coming back to your blog include using a whitelist of IP addresses that are allowed 
to use the hook for posting translated content and limiting the size of the post to ~250KB so that, even if all other measures 
fail, an attacker can’t eat up all the memory on your machine.
We have dedicated lots of thought to locking down this system, and we are very confident that it’s secure. 
After reading this, we hope you will be too!

GTS Translation Plugin

This plugin is guaranteed to drive more international traffic to your site by providing high quality translation, and SEO of your translated content.

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