I have written a Wordpress Plugin for Translation which has the advantage of translation pages in 20 languages and you get Google to index these pages. I have tested this on this blog. I had installed this plugin 2 days back and today I was checking if Google had indexed those translation pages.

Yes Google has indexed the translation pages and for this, you need to provide link to the translation page. You can do this using this plugin.

What I have seen that most of the blogs use Google Translate and the user is redirected to Google Translate domain and the user gets the translated page.

Other interesting thing I have noticed is that even the Google Adsense ads and displayed in the translated languages (not all). This page which is a Hindi Translation page displays some Google Adsense in Hindi.

What I am trying to do is to automatically create static pages for the translated pages, so that everytime we do not need to send the text for translation to Google.

I have written a plugin to offer Translation of Wordpress blog pages. This is an Ajax based plugin, which does the translation in about 20 International languages. I have used the Google Translation API to get the translated text and display it on the page.

You can check this plugin working on this blog. You can find the tool on top of this page, just select the language that you would like to translate and wait for a few seconds.

SEO links to the Translation pages

Every translated page has a permanent link and it will be useful in Search engine point of view. I will be releasing the next version with some tweaks after a month. If you have a Wordpress blog, just try this plugin. You can download it at the Wordpress Plugin Directory – Kish Translate AJax. I see good number of blogs using this tool and got some feedbacks. Your feedback will help me in improving this plugin.

To Do

1. Customization, Admin Settings
2. Optimize the code
3. Add some new features

I have done some modification for the current theme home page. I am showing the content till the Read More.. The problem what I was facing was the size of the images. I have written a function which resizes the image according to the image page design. We do not need to bother about the size of the image when we do the post.

First We need some function to find the height and width of the posted image and then resize the image according the size ratio so that images don’t look odd.

function getImageInfo($str, $strfindwhat) {

    $widthPos = strpos($str, $strfindwhat);

    //echo "Width Position : ".$widthPos;

    $strAfterWidth = substr($str, $widthPos);

    //echo "After Width : ".$strAfterWidth;

    $afterWidthSpace = strpos($strAfterWidth, " " );

    $withInfo = substr($strAfterWidth,0, $afterWidthSpace);

    //echo " Width Info : ".$withInfo;

    $finalWidth= preg_replace("#[^0-9]#", "", $withInfo);

    //" ,"" , $withInfo); 

    return $finalWidth;

}

Then we modify the content using the following function

function the_content_limit($max_char, $more_link_text = '(more...)', $stripteaser = 0, $more_file = '') {

    $content = get_the_content('');

    $content = apply_filters('the_content', $content);

    //$content = the_content_limit(100, "Read more");

    $thisimageheight = getImageInfo($content, "height");

    $thisimagewidth = getImageInfo($content, "width");    

    if ($thisimagewidth>100)  {

        $fwidth = 100;

        $adjuster = $thisimagewidth / $fwidth;

        $fheight = $thisimageheight / $adjuster;

        $thisimageheight = $fheight;

        $thisimagewidth = $fwidth;

    }

    $content = str_replace(']]>', ']]>', $content);

    $content = str_replace('img', 'img width='.$thisimagewidth.'px height = '.$thisimageheight.'px ', $content);

    //$content = strip_tags($content, "<img><b><strong><i><em><a><li><div>");

    echo $content;

}

Now we call this function to print the modified content

<div class="grid_5">

    <?php query_posts('cat=12,-29,-44&showposts=5'); ?>

    <?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>                    

    <div class="moreinfo">

        <h3><?php the_title(); ?></h3>

        <p style="font-size:9px; font-weight:200;"><?php the_time('F j, Y'); ?> by <?php the_author_posts_link(); ?> &middot; <?php comments_popup_link('Leave a Comment', '1 Comment', '% Comments'); ?>&nbsp;<?php edit_post_link('(Edit)', '', ''); ?></p>

        <?php the_content_limit(150, "");  ?>

        <div style="font-size:9px; font-weight:200;">

            Filed Under: <?php the_category(', ') ?><br />Tagged: <?php the_tags('') ?>

        </div>

        <p class="more"><a title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>" href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark">Read More..</a></p>

    </div><!-- /moreinfo -->

    <?php endwhile; endif; ?>

</div>

I am using the VibrantCMS theme

I wanted to covert http texts in my twitter plugin  to clickable links. I wrote a small function which may be of your use.

<?php

// string with URL's need to be changed to html format adding the the <a> tag

$str1 = "my name is kishore and my web page is http://www.kisaso.com all are welcom 

http://kish.in isPR checker which also display the pagerank of the current page 

with a small image. I am testing http://this.com plugin on my blog and need 

to do some work o";

changeToUrl($str1);

function changeToUrl($str) {

    $flag=true;

    // storing the original text

    $tempStr = $str;

    for($i=0 ; $flag==true; $i++) {

        //Getting the first http position, I checking if any text begins with http, you can 

//modify this according to your need

        $httpos = strpos($tempStr, 'http');

        //checking if any more http available in the text

        if( $httpos === false) $flag=false;

        // Removing the text before the http position

        $afterurl = substr($tempStr, $httpos);

        // Getting the space postion after the url which means the end of the URL

        $gapos = strpos($afterurl, " ");

        // Getting the URL text for which we need to replace with the <a> tag

        $finalurl = substr($afterurl, 0, $gapos);

        // Getting the length of the URL

        $lengthOfUrl = strlen($finalurl);

        //Getting the text removing the URL that is to scan for the next URL    

        $tempStr = substr($afterurl,$lengthOfUrl);

        // This will replace the URL adding the <a> tag

        $replace = '<a href ='.$finalurl.'>'.$finalurl.'</a>';

        // replacing the URL with <a> tag

        $includelink = str_replace($finalurl, $replace, $str);

        // Saving the new string after replacing the URL with <a> tag and goes to the next URL

        $str=$includelink;

    }

    echo $includelink;

}

?>

I use windows live writer to post on my blogs usually. From my last post, you may notice that I have added a different style, to my blog post. This is done just by the Live Writer. Its very simple, I have changed the <h6> style in the style sheet and I select the text which I need to put into this box.

Modifying the style

h6 {

    padding:10px;

    margin:5px;

    background:#d0d7ed;

    border:solid #698af4 1px;

    font-size:10px;

    font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

}

This is the style that I have used. Now I select the text which I need to show in the box with “Heading 6” from the drop down box on top. This way you can create good looking style boxes and use it on the fly.

The CSS given below is a very simple one. You can modify as you want and even you can use <h5> which is not much used. You should make sure that you should not use the the tags which you have modified.

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I regularly use Dreamweaver for working on  the files on my server. I was facing a problem of related to the saving of Remote Information, the server login details. Every time when I need to connect to the server for editing the files, I need to go to the Manage Sites and enter the login information, even though I opt for saving the login information ( a check box is provided to save the login information).

I am sure many of you have this problem unresolved. In fact this is a bug and Macromedia has a patch for this. You can download the patch for this bug from the dreamweaver updates site

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Testing Screen shots

If you have a blog, you should be knowing about feeds and RSS. In Wordpress, the Default URL for your blog will be http://yoursite.com/feed/. I Wordpress, you can get feeds for your comments, categories, tags separately.

Now let me talk about Feedburner. Feedburner is a free service to burn your feeds. All you need is sign-up for a free account, you can now use your Google Account to sign-in, (Google has acquired Feedburner). Once you sign-in, just enter your feed URL to the box as seen below

You can either enter you blog URL or if you know the Feed URL , you can enter the feed URL.

Thats it your Feed is ready, you can now use the Feedburner URL like http://feeds.feedburner.com/Asokans

You can burn multiple blog feeds and the service is 100% free. There are lots of options available like monetizing your feeds using Google Adsense, Email Subscriptions, Statistics of your blog feed and some widgets.

Why do we need to use Feedburner for this?

That’s something you will understand when you go through the Publicize tab of the Feed. I will be coming up with more features of Feedburner soon. Stay tuned in or Subscribe to my Blog by email for free

I have been working to create a moderation tool for one of our project. In this project the members working for the project needs to submit links and snippets of the page. The moderators need to validate the links as many of the news pages are aggregated ones and the page expires after certain period of time.

I created a script which checks if the page is valid or returns a 404 error or any error

function validateURL2($url) {
    if(strlen($url)) {
        $file = @fopen ($url, "r");
        if ($file) {
        return true;
        }
        else return false;
        exit;
    }
    else return false;
}

This function actually checks for any error and returns true

I have been posting on different blogs of mine. I have to do posts on about 5 blogs to keep them live and my problem is I hardly get time to do a post. To keep my readers visit my blogs and to tell them something interesting, I last night decided to just work on two of my blogs.

1. KishoreAsokan.Com
2. Home Jobs

I purchased two templates from Revolution Themes and installed one to this blog and to the Home Jobs Blog. Today being a holiday for me, I spent the whole day restructuring and upgrading my blog. I will be posting pages related to my projects, travels, news in Maldives, India, and some tech posts here. My Home Jobs blog is totally dedicated to money making tips and tricks. I even set up an ad server to manage my ads and banners. The software I am using is Openads which is now branded as Opex. Its excellent and the latest version is 2.4. I managed to learn most of the functionality and successfully started serving ads to my blogs. I will gradually shift all the ads through this ad server for all my other websites

During my work, I could learn some tricks and hacks related to this template. I have paid US$79.95 each for these templates and I feel its work. I designed the Logo on the header and then did some configuration for the home page. It will take some time to normalize everything. During this process I managed to upgrade the Wordpress version to the latest available 2.3. The upgrade process was successful and I have checked almost everything. If you find any problems, please post it here. There are some problems in pages with images (Old Posts) as I had sized the images according to my Old template. The previous template which I was using was ported by myself