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08:39 PM

Upgrade to WordPress 2.3 with Language Switcher: Lessons learned

Well, it acutally WordPress 2.3.1, cause this version was out one day ago. Every blogger who use WordPress probably know that 2.3 has big changes. First, let’s look into the database schema: taxonomy, terms…hello, Drupal? Maybe, it will not long WP start call its posts as “Node”? I mean, WordPress database really changed a lot in this release; the nerdy-geeky names used in the WordPress database table reflecting that the method of manage content in modern CMS are becoming more and more abstract and complex also at the same time flexible. Other “big” changes including automatically inform upgrade information on plugins and core updates, built in tags and tag cloud support. This blog has run WordPress 2.2 smoothly for a couple months now, after a month the official 2.3 release, I finally sat down to upgrade my blog to take advantage of the new features. (more…)

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10:33 PM

On Bilingual Weblog II, how to set up a bilingual blog

Ok, in this part, we will starting the actual work of setting up an English and Chinese weblog use WordPress 2.1.3, just like this weblog you are reading right now. This article here provides my own experience with some graphical demonstration, and I also provided my gettexted theme of TypoXP-Reloaded ( with Google Adsense optimized ). And I am pretty sure that the methods used in this article will also apply to set up other bilingual blog in general.
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10:21 PM

On Bilingual Weblog I, some thoughts

Although the ideas and methods provided within the two articles of this topic are intended to explain and demonstrate on setting up a bilingual weblog, they can also apply to build multi-languages weblog or website in general, of course, except those tools or plugins particularly for the WordPress in this case.

If you are reading this article, certainly you are already have some interest on the idea of setting up a bilingual weblog. However, what exactly you meant by the “bilingual weblog”? The reason I ask this question is: The incentive of setting up a bilingual weblog maybe very obvious, that is to have more targeted visitors of your site thus increase the potential of getting higher traffic to your site; but the concept of the bilingual weblog may not.
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