Archive for the ‘Websites & SEO’ Category

Translation with POEdit - Internationalize / Localize WP Themes Guide - Part 3

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

Now that you made your theme translatable, let’s do the necessary to translate it.

For that you will have to use a translation software, in this guide we’ll use POEdit, so go ahead and download then install it.

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Making it Translatable - Internationalize / Localize WP Themes Guide - Part 2

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

As I said there’s not only one method to internationalize a software but Wordpress uses the GetText method & it’s the one we should use for the theme.

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Internationalize & Localize a Wordpress Theme - Guide for Dummies - Part 1: Introduction

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

I had really a hard time figuring out how to internationalize a Wordpress theme for a “multilingual” site I’m working on & then to “localize” it. All that because the guides I read are made by geeks, & geeks never explain things properly… seriously!

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A Multi Language Plugin & a Symmetrical Shape

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

OK, two things I learned today totally unrelated:

How to make Wordpress multilingual, I need that for a new project that’s planned to be in three langauges, Arabic, English & French, it’s a Plug-in named Language Switcher: (more…)

Problems Upgrading to Wordpress 2.5 & to Upload Pictures

Monday, May 26th, 2008

Only one post this month & this is the second, it’s not a lake of ideas or that I’m learning nothing, I just had no time, too busy with other stuff, even now I should be … sleeping after a long day of work …

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Where to Get Nice Smilies For a Forum?

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

Bye SmilieI spent a big part of today searching, browsing, downloading, modifying & uploading smileys to a forum.

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Download the Arabic Wordpress Theme I Translated

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Arabic SpotlightI noticed there was some interest for the posts I made about me working on Arabic WP, & the theme I modified, so I decided to make it a bit fancier & upload it for anyone who would need it, I even created a demo blog just for it, who knows I may like translating / modifying themes & make more :D

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Setting-up Custom Permalinks for Arabic Wordpress

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Arabic WordpressWordpress let you customize your Blog URLs as you wish, & make them more SEO friendly, especially if you include posts names in them, that would improve your rankings in search results.

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Arabic Wordpress Installation - Translating a Theme

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

Already talked about me installing Arabic version of WP … Next I had to customize the site with some theme, so I got a nice theme from Themes.Wordpress.net & had first to change text orientation, which was a rather easy task using CSS, & then rested to translate the English titles, warnings, captions, etc to Arabic.

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Installing Arabic Wordpress & Arabic Themes

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

Arabic WordpressYesterday I installed Arabic Version of WordPress for a friend, I’ve got some SQL errors first due to weird codes in the wp-config.php file, I’ve modified it just as I used to do with English installation, but got some weird errors, I suppose it’s because there are explanations written in Arabic in it, I didn’t try to remove them, instead I just replaced the file with wp-config.php of a English package & it worked.

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Google Answer to: “How Can I Improve My Site’s Ranking?”

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

Evil GoogleI was logged i my Google Webmaster Tools account & noticed that linked question: How can I improve my site’s ranking?, I followed the link & was rather surprised by the answer even if somehow I already knew it:

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Manual Migration From Blogger to Wordpress

Friday, February 29th, 2008

Blogger & Wordpress LogosI managed to do that today with one of my Blogger.com blogs that was hosted in my server using the FTP publishing option in Blogger.

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