Both Mike and I are very happy with the outcome of the new translation add-on to our news system, which I finished coding earlier today. Shurtugal did used to offer translations for the entire site, but it was through an automated service which returned very spotty results, which is why we stopped using it. This new system will rely on human translators and a custom-built system, which while more time-consuming should be very effective.

The system has been completed and tested, and when it is released you’ll be able to choose from multiple languages just underneath the site theme selection in the layout box. At the moment, we’re hoping to release with English, Spanish, French, Russian, Romanian, Bulgarian, and Danish, though the list may grow or change before the feature is released. As the system is currently designed, your language preference will be saved for one year from the last time you update it, and used wherever a translation is available.

Right now we’re happy with what we have, but in the near future I’ll be making more code edits and additions to the language system being put in place to allow for more parts of the site to be translated as time goes by. Look for the news translations to be rolling out as soon as our translators (Job Openings ) are in place and working! Click the image to enlarge it for an example.

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