Takayuki Miyoshi

yaraku

<p>YarakuZen is an online service that helps translators manage their translation. You can use machine translation through it, and you can also send orders to professional translators. Plus, YarakuZen provides smart and powerful translation memory that should be a great help when you translate.</p>
<p>This WordPress plugin is officially supported by Yaraku, the operating company of YarakuZen.</p>
<h4>Getting Started with YarakuZen</h4>
<p>First, <a href="http://app.yarakuzen.com/wordpress" rel="nofollow ugc">set up an account</a> for a YarakuZen.com API key. Then copy the key into the WordPress admin menu (‘Settings’ > ‘YarakuZen’).</p>
<p>You’ll find the YarakuZen box added to the editor screen for posts and pages. You can send your text to YarakuZen.com through it.</p>
<h4>Available Languages</h4>
<p>Currently the following languages are supported for the translation source and target.</p>
<ul>
<li>English</li>
<li>Japanese</li>
<li>Chinese (Simplified)</li>
<li>Chinese (Traditional)</li>
<li>Korean</li>
<li>French</li>
<li>German</li>
<li>Spanish</li>
<li>Italian</li>
<li>Swedish</li>
<li>Portuguese</li>
<li>Indonesian</li>
<li>Vietnamese</li>
<li>Thai</li>
<li>Malay</li>
<li>Filipino</li>
<li>Hindi</li>
</ul>


YarakuZen

The YarakuZen plugin helps you to translate your site using both machine translation and translation by professionals.

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.

YarakuZen vs ICanLocalize Translator