Posted 5 years ago #
I'm looking at the WordPress Global Translator Plugin http://www.nothing2hide.net/blog/2006/08/20/wordpress-global-translator-plugin/
and WordPress Translate http://www.scotthough.com/wordpress-translate/
and trying to decide what to use. I have the first one running at http://tinyurl.com/vt5b8 and some of the languages with different alphabets mess up the functionality. (I also don't like the look of the buttons but I can change that)
Anyone put both plugins through the paces?
Posted 5 years ago #
Don't use any of them, because automatic translation is one of the worsted internet technology on earth. 80% of the time, you don't understand what is written.
You have to use the most basic grammar with vocabulary that only one meaning in order to get a chance to be understood (and I a really mean "understood", not just reading a correct sentence).
If you learned another language than english, you will be horrified by these tools.
IMHO, it will never help you to get a bigger worldwide audience, on the contrary, because people will not understand the messy language they are reading.
Posted 5 years ago #
Thanks for your opinion.
For those who do like having the option, anyone do a full comparison?
Actually PH is 100% right!
No machine translation works. One of the plugins above uses Google, the other babelfish.
There is no good and better - just bad and worse :)
Posted 5 years ago #
I came here looking for a translator, too. I'm managing a community blog and many of the members' first language is not English.
Having used translators to read their blogs, I agree that auto translators are not great. However, they can give you the gist and that's really all I need.
From my limited experience babelfish seems to be better than Google.
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