Allow translation via WPML plugin Page 2 All in One SEO Pack Feature Requests Forum

Yeah, Amir has offered his help, ideas and assistance to make AIOSEO with multilingual support more than once already.

He has explained that it doesn't take hours of recoding, instead it can be done by adding 2 calls and he even has offered his help to code it all together!

Just because you don't hear them, doesn't necessarily mean that there are thousands of developers out there that program their sites in a multilingual environment. I already posted once about it…

Since WPML is out we are embracing it! This embrace goes further than just WPML, we also embrace the plugin developers that understand the necessity of enabling their plugin(s) to be able to handle a multi-lingual environment. No matter if we have been using a particular plugin for years, if there is another that integrates seamlessly with WPML, the switch is easily made.

Of course you can't and won't be bothered that I have stopped using your plugin alltogether and use Add Meta Tags instead, but that is hardly the point.

The point is that people with multilingual websites will always choose multilingual functionality over anything else…

So please add those few lines of code to the AIOSEO plugin so we can have multilingual functionality combined with great SEO functionality!

Thanks,
Piet

It would be very difficult to use. I realize you don't want to make changes to AIOSEOP for each tiny plugin, but I don't think it's the case here.

Can I show you an example for a single field on how to let WPML translate it? Then, you can see if you like it and can apply to the rest of the plugin's fields. This way, the texts that users enter in the AIOSEOP's admin page would appear for translation in WPML's string translation panel and the translations would display for different languages. It works very well now and have zero impact on speed.

When WPML isn't running, AIOSEOP will run normally, just as it runs right now.

It would take me a few minutes to do this change and document it in the PHP. I can send that to your for review and you decide if it's OK to include in the plugin. Would that be OK?

admin, have you ever even taken 2 mins of your time to look at what WPML is actually doing?

and the funniest thing is tht every time Amir offers you sth concrete, we don't hear from you for another couple of weeks…

Please, just say yes to Amir's offer above. Looking doesn't hurt and it certainly doesn't kill you, right?

Hello Guys,

I think this would be one of the most important plugins that ever has been created for Wordpress.

I have a Norwegian blog today where im writing about snowboarding and snowboard trips. eks. The Alps.

For some time now i have got some comments that are in english that says something like this: "Great pictures and great blog, but i cant understand anything of what youre writing".

So the WPML would be a perfect match for my desire, but i also want people thats searching for snowboarding in Chamonix are able to find my blog and not only the norwegian people that use Google.

I really hope you could come to a term and create this plugin =)

Hi,

First, thank you for your great for AIOSEO developpers !

We found a solution to translate the home page title and metas (sorry for code readability but couldn't find a code tag). You just have to paste this in your theme functions.php or even create a plugin "aioseo-fix" :

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/* AIOSEO hack : If using a static front page then use title, description and keywords from page meta instead of AIOSEO config */
/* Please AIOSEO developpers, could you modify the plugin so that this dirty hack would be useless ? */
function custom_aioseop_home_page_title($home_title){
global $post,$aiosp;
if ($aiosp->is_static_front_page() && $aiosp->internationalize(get_post_meta($post->ID, "_aioseop_title", true))){
$home_title = $aiosp->internationalize(get_post_meta($post->ID, "_aioseop_title", true));
}
return $home_title;
}
function custom_aioseop_description($description){
global $post,$aiosp;
if ($aiosp->is_static_front_page() && $aiosp->get_post_description($post)){
$description = $aiosp->get_post_description($post);
}
return $description;
}
function custom_aioseop_keywords($keywords){
global $post,$aiosp;
if ($aiosp->is_static_front_page() && $aiosp->internationalize(get_post_meta($post->ID, "_aioseop_keywords", true))){
$keywords = $aiosp->internationalize(get_post_meta($post->ID, "_aioseop_keywords", true));
}
return $keywords;
}
add_filter('aioseop_home_page_title','custom_aioseop_home_page_title');
add_filter('aioseop_description','custom_aioseop_description');
add_filter('aioseop_keywords','custom_aioseop_keywords');

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Like said in the comments : this will make AIOSEO use the page meta instead of AIOSEO config when a static front page is used. Besides of allowing home page translations, this behaviour is more intuitive…

Please is it possible to integrate this behaviour in your nice plugin ? :)

Thank you again.