I’ve been looking for good Translation Plug-in for quite sometimes now. I’ve ben tinkering with the Global translator plug-in but unfortunately, I had to disabled my Permalink plug-in in order to get it to work, as they go wonker when used together.
Unfortunately, I need to use the Permalink plug-in to get my blog to work, so disabling it is out of the question. I’ve been trying to find ways to get over this limitation, but all that I’m getting is a big head-ache instead.

I then stumbled upon Trevor Creech’s Translate Widget 2.0. Initially, I too had trouble getting this one to work. Fortunately, there’s no conflict with the other installed plug-ins. Judging from the comments on Trev’s blog, the problems seems to affect those WP users thats using ver. 2.2 above.

Anyway, after tinkering with the php code for a while, I finally got the plug-in to work perfectly. It’s already installed in the sidebar, so just give it a spin, ya.

Download Translate Widget 2.0 here.

If you’re using ver 2.2, then You’ll probably be having the problem of double URl inserted by the plug-in, resulting in users getting the 404 error. In case Trev hadn’t updated or rectify the problem yet, use these following hacks:

1. open the translate.php file

2. on line 16, change:

$url = get_option(’siteurl’) . $_SERVER[”REQUEST_URI”];

to

$url = get_option(’http://www.yourblog.com/’) . $_SERVER[”REQUEST_URI”];

3. on Line 22 & 33 change:

$full_url=‘http://www.google.com/translate?hl=’.$orig_lang.’&ie=UTF8&langpair=
’.$orig_lang.’%7C’.$langcode.’&u=’.$url;

to

$full_url=‘http://www.google.com/translate?hl=’.$orig_lang.’&ie=UTF8&langpair=
’.$orig_lang.’%7C’.$langcode.’&u=http://www.yourblog.com/’;

This quick hack rectifies the double url, but then, when user click on the flag, user will be brought back to the main page. Other than that, the plug-in works great.

Also, if you’re like me and hate to use the WP auto widget option, to manually position the plugin anywhere into the wp template, use this code:

< ?php trc_translate(); ?>

Give it a try.
update: Trevor had updated the plugin. The new version now works perfectly without a hitch.

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