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The translation process takes a lot of time. Why?

In order to prevent from banning by the translation services, only a translation request every 5 minutes will be allowed. This will permit to fully translate your blog whithout any interruption; this message will completely disappear when all the pages of your blog will be cached. Remember that this message will also appear if you're currently being banned by the translation engine: this could happen if for example your blog shares the same ip address with other blogs using older versions of Global Translator.

"This page has not been translated yet. The translation process could take a while: please come back later." message when trying to access a translated page

Upgrade to 1.0.8 or later. Starting from 1.0.8, a browser asking for a not yet translated page will be warned and redirected in 5 seconds to the translation service page in order to provide a temporary "backup service". Obviously, when the page is translated and saved on your cache directory, this redirection will disappear and the translated and cleaned page will be served by your blog.

I have a Global Translator version prior than 1.0.5 and Google doesn't translate anymore!

Starting from 27th of August 2008, Google has introduced a block in order to prevent not human translation requests: just upgrade to 1.0.5 or later.

White page or Page Not Found (404) when clicking on a translation flag

This could be due to a change of the permalinks structure of your blog, to a conflict with another plugin or to a custom .htaccess file which doesn't permit Global Translator to add its custom permalink rules. Try to refresh the Global Translator rewrite rules just pressing the "Update Options" button from the Global Translator admin page. If the problem persists, try also to deactivate all the other existing plugins and check your .htaccess file and comment out all the non-standard rewrite rules. If you discover a conflicting plugin please send me an email (davide at nothing2hide.net).

"Sorry, the translation engine is temporarily not available. Please try again later" message when using Google Translations engine

You're using an old version of the plugin. Please upgrade to 1.0 or later.

The translated page has a bad/broken layout

This is due to the translation engine action. I cannot do anything in order to prevent this problem :-) I suggest you to try all the translation engines in order to choose the best one for your blog layout

I've just changed my permalinks structure or just upgraded Wordpress to a newer version and Global Translator doesn't translate anymore

Everytime the permalinks structure of your blog changes, the custom rules previously added by Global Translator are overriden. To solve the problem you must just refresh the Global Translator Options ("Update Options" button) on the administrative area.

I've removed one or more available translations but the search engines continue to try to index the corresponding urls

When you remove one or more translations, the plugin will begin to return a 404 Not Found for all the corresponding translated pages. In order to notify a search engine that one or more urls are not available anymore you should add a deny rule on your robots.txt file. For example if you decide to remove the German translation you should modify your robots.txt as follows: User-agent: * [....] Disallow: /de/*

How can I discover if my blog is currently banned by the translation engine?

Go to the Global Translator admin page. If your blog has been temporarily banned, a warning message will appear inside the "Translation engine connection" section.