Amir Helzer

<p>“ICanLocalize Translator” allows running multi-lingual WordPress websites (See the <a href="http://media.icanlocalize.com/wp_translation_demos/icanlocalize-translator.htm" rel="nofollow ugc">5 minute demo</a>).<br />
It helps maintain contents in different languages and automatically links between them.</p>
<ul>
<li>Blog in your native language. Translations will be created automatically.</li>
<li>Use different domains, <code>www.myblog.com</code>, <code>es.myblog.com</code>, <code>de.myblog.com</code> or directories within the same domain.</li>
<li>Updates are handled automatically. When the original contents update, translations follow.</li>
</ul>
<p>WordPress supports contents in a single language. To make multi-lingual WordPress sites insensitive to upgrades and to other plugins,<br />
ICanLocalize Translator doesn’t change any table structure and doesn’t alter permlinks. Instead, each language will run in its own WordPress instance.</p>
<h4>Is this machine translation?</h4>
<p>Unlike free machine translators, this plugin will send posts and pages to be translated by real people.<br />
You can select from our pool of professional translators or assign the work to your favorite translator.</p>
<p>This plugin works together with <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/icanlocalize-comment-translator/" rel="ugc">ICanLocalize Comment Translator Plugin</a>.<br />
It needs to be installed in the original-language blog. The Comment Translator plugin will be installed in the translated-language blog(s).</p>
<h4>Running a multi-lingual site</h4>
<p>Even though visitors read and comment in their languages, and You will do all your tasks (including comment moderation and replies) in your own language.</p>
<p>Comment moderation in your language is handled by <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/icanlocalize-comment-translator/" rel="ugc">ICanLocalize Comment Translator Plugin</a> which needs to be install on each of the translated blogs.</p>
<p>The plugin provides a function that you can include in your theme which automatically links between contents in different languages.</p>
<h4>What gets translated</h4>
<p>The plugin will automatically send all texts to be translated, including:</p>
<ul>
<li>Posts</li>
<li>Pages</li>
<li>Tags</li>
<li>Categories (names and descriptions)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Where can I see some examples?</h4>
<p><a href="http://blog-en.icanlocalize.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Our own blog</a> is being translated by our system from English to French.<br />
You’re invited to <a href="http://www.icanlocalize.com/web_dialogs/new?language_id=1&store=4" rel="nofollow ugc">contact us</a> for other examples.</p>
<h4>SitePress</h4>
<p>This plugin is part of <a href="http://sitepress.org" rel="nofollow ugc">SitePress</a> – a collection of plugins that turn WordPress into a fully featured multilingual content management system.</p>
<h3>Version History</h3>
<ul>
<li>Version 0.4
<ul>
<li>First public release</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Version 0.5
<ul>
<li>Improved support for page hierarchy</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Version 0.6
<ul>
<li>Works with WordPress MU</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Version 1.0
<ul>
<li>Users can cancel translation jobs</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Version 1.3
<ul>
<li>Includes drop down language switcher that can be added to header.php.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Version 1.3.1
<ul>
<li>Dropdown language selector now support IE6</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>


ICanLocalize Translator

Allows running multilingual WordPress sites with zero management. Automatically creates and updates translation when you edit.

Stu West

<p>This plugin gives WordPress developers easy access to localized country, region, language, currency, time zone, and calendar info from the <a href="http://cldr.unicode.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">Unicode Common Locale Data Repository</a>.</p>
<p>With the plugin active, WordPress developers can access the following for over 100 WordPress locales:</p>
<ul>
<li>Names for countries (and ISO 3166 country codes).</li>
<li>Names for regions (and UN M.49 region codes, plus countries included in each region).</li>
<li>Names for languages (and ISO 639 language codes).</li>
<li>Names and symbols for currencies (and ISO 4317 currency codes).</li>
<li>Names for time zone example cities (and IANA time zone IDs).</li>
<li>Calendar information including the first day of the week in different countries.</li>
<li>Country information including telephone codes, most spoken languages, currency, and population.</li>
</ul>
<p>More information in the <a href="https://automattic.github.io/wp-cldr/class-WP_CLDR.html" rel="nofollow ugc">detailed API documentation</a>.</p>
<p>CLDR is a library of localization data coordinated by Unicode. It emphasizes <a href="http://cldr.unicode.org/translation/country-names" rel="nofollow ugc">common, everyday usage</a> and is available in over 700 language-region locales. It is <a href="http://cldr.unicode.org/index/downloads" rel="nofollow ugc">updated every six months</a> and used by <a href="http://cldr.unicode.org/#TOC-Who-uses-CLDR-" rel="nofollow ugc">all major software systems</a>. CLDR data is licensed under <a href="http://unicode.org/copyright.html#Exhibit1" rel="nofollow ugc">Unicode’s data files and software license</a> which is on <a href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html#Unicode" rel="nofollow ugc">the list of approved GPLv2 compatible licenses</a>.</p>
<p>Follow along with or contribute to the development of this plugin at https://github.com/Automattic/wp-cldr.</p>


WP CLDR

Gives WordPress developers easy access to localized country, region, language, currency, time zone, and calendar info.

ICanLocalize Translator vs WP CLDR