First, you should create a network of blogs using following these instructions : http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network

Once you have your network set, just create a second / third blog with the proper sub urls. You can now share the same plugins, same wordpress installation, same theme with various languages.

What I usually do is have one main blog just as a placeholder, one with /fr base url and one with /en base url.

I still miss the functions to get links between posts but we could probably find plugins to do that :)

That was easy wasn’t it?

Next time I may talk about exporting zd_multilang content. I made a plugin for that but I still need to make some changes to make it work properly.

The second reason is simply that with WordPress 3.0 you don’t need any plugin to get bilingual content.

This is why I made a new plugin to export ZdMultilang content to WordPress .xml format.

I will also make a short tutorial on how to create and manage a FULLY multilingual blog with WordPress 3.0 soon.

If anyone wants to fork or keep on maintaining the plugin, you are welcome to contact me.

There are lots of reasons to that, the first one being, time is missing. I’ve been very busy with projects I built for clients around WordPress. I started working on some Android applications and I must say I love making those.

I will probably release my first app within a few weeks (well, when I find time).

In the meantime, I’ve been trying to work on ZdMultilang and fix all these issues you gave back to me but time is a big issue for me, wife, kids and a new job.

Yes, I recently got hired by one of the biggest Video Game company in the World as a Sys Engineer.

I’m also moving houses this month so don’t expect too much updates on the plugins.

By the way, if someone is willing to help on the development of ZdMultilang, you can contact me here and I will facilitate that.

I’m going to drop WordPress slowly as I don’t have much more time to work on that. But I will start making more apps for the Android pretty soon :).

The good thing about this app is, it’s OpenSource and also we’ll get new comments notifications (well if we activate them).

Here is the official video:

And here is the official release notes.

Before giving you the changelog, let me tell you this, I found a way to make translated permalinks work, but, this is very bad in term of SEO so it is not yet implemented. The way I implemented it for now makes these work :
http://blog.zen-dreams.com/fr/nouveau_post
http://blog.zen-dreams.com/en/new_post, that’s great
and finally, http://blog.zen-dreams.com/en/nouveau_post and that is not good at all as two different permalinks with the exact same content…

I’m trying to find a way to make it work properly right now, and even those who forked the plugin have this behaviour. I have my ideas so we may see a version 1.2.6 before Christmas, but probably not.

And now, here is the changelog.

• You can have static pages as a frontpage !
• Updated a bug with translation icon in the page while the page has never been saved
• Added options to hide the flag in the widget
• Function zd_multilang_menu now takes two paramaters : zd_multilang_menu (show_language_name, show_language_flag) by default these are true
• Added an option to display original post while translating
• Added a donate button if you want to support development of the plugin
• Ability to choose the user level needed to edit content
• Added an option to keep comments separated – Amazing work done by Pau Sanchez
• Autosave (optional) so that, every 5 minutes.

It will include lots of new features, some bugfixes and still no different permalinks for each languages.
Apparently someone managed to do it for Carla Bruni Sarkozy but they forked the plugin and didn’t share the changes…

I just contacted the company who made the website and see if they will share the knowledge. If not, then we will all have to wait until I fix that.

In the meantime, I did some improvements to the plugin, here is the changelog for version 1.2.5 :

• The most expected feature is now working : You can have static pages as a frontpage !
• Updated a bug with translation icon in the page while the page has never been saved
• Added options to hide the flag in the widget
• Function zd_multilang_menu now takes two paramaters : zd_multilang_menu (show_language_name, show_language_flag) by default these are true
• Added an option to display original post while translating
• Added a donate button if you want to support development of the plugin
• Ability to choose the user level needed to edit content
• Added an option to keep comments separated – Amazing work done by Pau Sanchez

Stay tuned, I’ll let everyone know as soon as I publish the next version, it should be soon.

In fact, I created one recently and one of the request was to make sure that the BuddyPress toolbar would not be displayed. You have in fact two options.

Solution one, editing Buddypress yourself.

This is an easy solution but not a perene one as each time you will update the buddypress plugin in your WordPress-Mu install, you’ll have to do it again…

If you still want to do that, you just have to remove this line whithin the bp-core-adminbar.php file in the bp-core folder.

add_action( 'wp_footer', 'bp_core_admin_bar', 8 );

Advantage, of this solution is you won’t have to update your theme to achieve that, the drawback is you’ll have to do it each time you update buddypress

Solution two, use the power of wordpress actions

If you don’t want to handle the change at each BuddyPress upgrade, you can just remove this action within your functions.php file. This file is located in each of your theme folders.

I say each because you may want this bar to be displayed truly nowhere. This means you your wp-theme and bp-theme.

To achieve that, just add this line in all your functions.php files :

remove_action('wp_footer', 'bp_core_admin_bar',8);

Screenshots

Before removing the toolbar

After removing the toolbar

Questions ?

Any questions about buddypress or integration of WordPress-mu, Buddypress and BBPress ? Do not hesitate to ask in the comments below.

1. Meet people

So that’s what I did, first by Going to the Summer meetup of meetups, but it was very crowded. Then I’ve been to a second one more focused on Internet Marketing. That where I had the chance to meet John Chow and talk with him for nearly an hour about marketing, WordPress and many other topics (like Airbus A380 :D) as well as how he got banned and reintroduced to the Google search.

2. Work

I’m usually a big fan of the let people see how good you are and they will contact you, but it’s very difficult to do when you don’t know the people in your new place.

So, I started my business here by Working for a great video game company, SlantSixGames. This project was about making their entire website using WordPress as a CMS and Blog. I will repeat myself, but I really enjoyed working with these guys ! Lots of passion in their work and the design was really awesome as you can see below.

I just finished a new project for a Sports author, this project was about integrating the design into a WordPress theme. I will post more about this contract later (when the page will be live ;)

3. WordPress Consulting in Vancouver

I know there are already lots of companies doing WordPress consulting in Vancouver, but I also know there is still room for me ;)

The truth is that there are more Joomla! and Drupal consultants here than WordPress Experts here. I Just wish there was more events around WordPress in order to meet some WordPress fans and can’t wait for the next WordCamp Vancouver.

There is soon to be a WordCamp Fraser Valley but I won’t be able to attend because it’s my daughter’s birthday !

All that to say that I’m a happy WordPress Consultant in Vancouver, and do not hesitate to contact me if you are looking for a WordPress Expert.

[Photo credit: llawliet]

Following some of your requests and due to the fact that I had to look in order to make ZdMultilang work with the latest WordPress, Here is the updated article with explanation of how to integrate tinyMCE into your wordpress plugins.

So here is the code you need to include.

add_filter('admin_head','ShowTinyMCE');
function ShowTinyMCE() {
	// conditions here
	wp_enqueue_script( 'common' );
	wp_enqueue_script( 'jquery-color' );
	wp_print_scripts('editor');
	if (function_exists('add_thickbox')) add_thickbox();
	wp_print_scripts('media-upload');
	if (function_exists('wp_tiny_mce')) wp_tiny_mce();
	wp_admin_css();
	wp_enqueue_script('utils');
	do_action("admin_print_styles-post-php");
	do_action('admin_print_styles');
}

Don’t ask me to explain everything, I just found all these details while browsing the admin pages related to posts.

In order to do so, I need YOU. I will make all the improvements and bug fixes based on a priority list that I want you to help me build.
Below is a list of bugfixes and features that will be included in the next release (or two if I release first a version with full 2.8 compatibility)

1. Bug fixes

• Fix home page as a static page handling !
• Fix the save button in WordPress 2.8 Fixed since 1.2.3
• Issue with the Media Upload icon Fixed in the upcoming 1.2.4
• Better handling of permalinks detection (permalink with more than 2 char)

2. Features

• Allow to create different permalinks depending on the language
• Update the zd_multilang_menu function to add parameters (like displaying only some elements)
• Add an option to allow displaying all the languages including the current one in the widget.
• Make a better, up to date F.A.Q / Help page.
• Create a function to get the current language used.
• Handling of Widget title translation.
• Uninstall function with Database cleaning
• Write post in non default language only (find a way to do this…)
• Add a theme switching function according to current language (requested by AMN)
• Translation could have a different date than the original post.
• See if it can work with WP-Print

Now it’s up to you to help me add items to the list. Please read the comments before asking for a feature/bugfix as I will try to update the list as much as possible.