Anaconda Theme http://anaconda.taragana.net News and articles on Anaconda WordPress theme Sun, 23 Mar 2008 02:58:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en New Forum for Anaconda Theme http://anaconda.taragana.net/new-forum-for-anaconda-theme/ http://anaconda.taragana.net/new-forum-for-anaconda-theme/#comments Sun, 23 Mar 2008 02:58:38 +0000 angsuman http://anaconda.taragana.net/new-forum-for-anaconda-theme/ Please visit our new forum for Anaconda Theme.

Previously we used xdforum which proved too cumbersome to maintain. Finally we moved over to phpBB. All relevant posts from the old forum has been migrated to the new forum.

We are also working on a new version of the theme.

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Angsuman’s Translator Plugin Pro 4.0 Released http://anaconda.taragana.net/angsumans-translator-plugin-pro-40-released/ http://anaconda.taragana.net/angsumans-translator-plugin-pro-40-released/#comments Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:14:14 +0000 angsuman http://anaconda.taragana.net/angsumans-translator-plugin-pro-40-released/ I am very happy to announce the long-awaited release of Angsuman’s Translator Plugin Pro version 4.0. This release contains several exciting new features:

Multi-Language Support

Translator Plugin Pro 4.0 supports blogs written in 14 different languages - English, German, Russian, Arabic, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Greek, Japanese, Korean and Chinese.

In Translator Plugin Pro 4.0 we localize strings to better support blogs in non-English languages. The language packs for non-English languages are not available in this release. However users are free to create them using mo file format used also by WordPress.

Translation in 13 Languages

Translator Plugin Pro 4.o provides translation from each of these 14 languages to the 13 other languages. In short this means that with Translator Plugin Pro your blog instantly gets 13 times more pages serving a much much wider audience. Now your blog will be accessible to approximately 2.5 billion (1 billion = 1000 million = 1,000,000,000) people around the world. As a comparison an English only blog can be read by merely 309 million people. Source: Ethnologue, An encyclopedic reference work cataloging all of the world’s 6,912 known living languages.

Population reach using Translator Plugin Pro 4.0

Language
Population
Min*
Max*
Chinese 874,000,000 1,022,000,000
Spanish 322,299,171 -
English 309,352,280 -
Arabic 206,000,000 222,063,520
Portuguese 177,457,180 -
Russian 145,031,551 -
Japanese 122,433,899 -
German 95,392,978 -
Korean 67,019,690 -
French 64,858,311 -
Italian 61,489,984 -
Dutch 17,370,777 -
Greek 12,258,540 -
Swedish 8,789,835 -
Total 2,483,754,196 2,647,817,716

* The Min data indicates the population considering only the standard / main dialect of that language. The Max data indicates the population including other dialects of that language. The Min data is a conservative estimate while the Max data is somewhat optimistic estimate of reach.

Translator Plugin Pro offers you three translation engines to choose from with tons of modes and options in each. We have extensively tested all the combinations for each language pair and have selected as default the best combination. You are however encouraged to play with the options to fine-tune the plugin to your needs.

Password Protected Blog Support

Translator Plugin Pro 4.0 supports translation even for password protected blogs. Translator 4.0 can translate even password protected blogs and pages, accessing the documents with the same privilege as the requester. You can, for example, use Authenticated User plugin to password protect your blog and yet Translator Pro will be able to translate pages for priviledged users (who has the permission to access the blog).

Architecture

Translator Pro architecture and data structure was redesigned to enable us to easily add additional translation engines with very little effort. The plugin moved away from overloading the options to store its data to using the database tables directly. This will help users in restrictive environments with low limits of MySQL row data size.

Flexibility

Translator Plugin Pro supports wide variety of environments. It works with or without curl support, with or without safe mode, with or without open_basedie settings, in a variety of servers etc. In short Translator Plugin Pro will leverage the capabilities of an environment when available, when it is not available it uses alternative options. However it will still work fine.

Performance

Translator Plugin Pro 4.0 achieved enviable benchmark results in performance tests with average response time of 151 milliseconds serving 5 concurrent users, serving 759 KB/sec. This proves the value of Translator Plugin Pro’s dual-caching technology. Read the details of Translator Plugin Pro’s performance test here.

Translator Plugin Pro is designed to work seamlessly with WordPress object cache. However it has been also tested with wp-cache 2 and it works perfectly with it too along with other third party cache engines like eAccelerator. Translator Pro has been designed to be scalable and high performant.

Remote Diagnostics

Translator Plugin Pro 4.0 is equipped with extensive debugging and diagnostic capability on demand. This allows use to remotely debug most of the common problems you may ever face. Translator Plugin Pro works seamlessly out of the box for 99% of our customers. For the remaining 1% we are there to support you and solve any problems you may face. Now we can do it even faster.

Well Tested

Translator Plugin Pro has been rigorously tested and has been beta tested by several customers for prolonged period of over a month or more. We have tested it in all version of WordPress, starting from 2.0.4 to 2.0.7.

Upgrade & Delivery

Existing customers will be upgraded for free within 7 working days. We have setup a semi-automated process. I am hopeful we can beat the estimate of 7 days, but just in case :)

New customers will get their software within one working day as before.

Demo

You can see a demo of Translator Plugin Pro 4.0 on several of our sites like Stem Cell Research Blog, Law Blog, Eye Care Blog, Computer Jobs Blog etc.

Note

Translator Plugin Pro is is search engine optimized, supports WordPress widgets, uses nice permalinks, super-fast (cacheable), scalable and lots more.
1. Read more 2. Features 3. Testimonials 4. Get Software

Source: Simple Thoughts Blog

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How To Remove Attribution Link / Link Back From Anaconda Theme for WordPress? http://anaconda.taragana.net/how-to-remove-attribution-link-link-back-from-anaconda-theme-for-wordpress/ http://anaconda.taragana.net/how-to-remove-attribution-link-link-back-from-anaconda-theme-for-wordpress/#comments Fri, 10 Nov 2006 12:30:58 +0000 angsuman http://anaconda.taragana.net/how-to-remove-attribution-link-link-back-from-anaconda-theme-for-wordpress/ Anaconda Theme for WordPress 2.x blogs is a free next generation 3 column CSS based WordPress theme provided by us. Anaconda Theme requires an attribution link at the bottom of each page. That is all we ask for our hard work in developing and testing this theme. However you may not want to have this attribution link / link back in every page of your blog for some reason. Here is what you can do to remove the linkback / attribution legitimately and feeling good about it.

To remove the linkback / attribution from the theme we require that you purchase your attribution free copy of Anaconda for 30$ (per blog), payable via PayPal to Taragana Sales. You can also use the button below to quickly make the payment.


We will then send you an attribution free version of Anaconda theme for your blog. You will also be eligible for 3 support incidents from us. Additionally you will be given a big discount for Anaconda Pro, when released.
Note: Anaconda Pro will be a theme for web professionals with extensive configurability, flexibility and tons of additional features and plugins; in short everything you will need for your high quality professional blog. It is currently in development.

Republished from via Simple Thoughts Blog.

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Anaconda Theme Next Version http://anaconda.taragana.net/anaconda-theme-next-version/ http://anaconda.taragana.net/anaconda-theme-next-version/#comments Mon, 30 Oct 2006 13:05:33 +0000 angsuman http://anaconda.taragana.net/anaconda-theme-next-version/ We are planning for the next version of Anaconda Theme. Let us know in comments and in the forum, features that you would like to see.

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Angsuman’s Translator Plugin Pro 3.2 Released http://anaconda.taragana.net/angsumans-translator-plugin-pro-32-released/ http://anaconda.taragana.net/angsumans-translator-plugin-pro-32-released/#comments Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:59:44 +0000 angsuman http://anaconda.taragana.net/angsuman%e2%80%99s-translator-plugin-pro-32-released/ I am happy to announce the release of Angsuman’s Translator Plugin Pro version 3.2 for WordPress 2.x blogs. This is a feature packed release (details) based on customer feedback. There are few fixes in too primarily to adjust to Google Translation engines changing page structure.

We will start shipping it from today. It may take a day or two for all copies to be shipped. The documentation will be updated very soon.

The key features in this release are:

  1. Support for fopen has been added (in addition to curl). Now the plugin can be used on sites without curl enabled. Whenever the program detects that curl is not available it tries to use fopen.
  2. Better support for safe_mode and open_basedir. Some restrictive web hosting providers enable safe_mode and / or set open_basedir. It used to restrict the options users can use in their plugin. We have overcome this difficulty by implementing the functionalities which were being restricted by safe_mode and open_basedir settings without compromising security or functionality.
  3. Data caching in true database tables. Previously the data was being cached in WordPress settings which can consume lots of memory for sites with very high loads and/or having lots of pages.
    This change makes the translation perfectly scalable on heavy load sites without compromising performance.
    It will also enables us to track any caching issues quickly, not that we expect any. It will enable using caching on systems with lower memory allocation and lower database field limits. No more will you have to increase max_packet_size or memory_limit parameters.
  4. Google Translation has changed their data translation mode this week. In this version we have fully accounted for their changes.
  5. Ability to delete cache manually. You now have the ability to delete all the caching (disk and database) we do with a single convenient button in translator manage options.
  6. Translator will restrict itself to translating pages from your blog only. In version 3.1 the translation criteria was relaxed to include pages from the same domain which occassionally lead it to modify url’s which it cannot translate. This has been fixed in 3.2.
  7. Domain validation will be case insensitive. This gives latitude to bloggers to call their blogs www.MyBlog.com or www.myblog.com interchangeably.
  8. You can now restrict displaying flags to languages of your choice. Quite a few customers asked us to be able to restrict translation to a subset of the languages we provide. Now you can do it by unchecking the languages you don’t want to display in your translation bar.
  9. Better support of XHTML 1.0 standard in translated pages.
  10. Modifying Translator options is now restricted to users having ‘edit_plugins’ privileges. Normally admin users have privilege to edit plugins. This is one feature which haven’t been a user request. However it is important as it prevents un-privileged users in multi-user blog from accessing and changing the Translator options.

Note: Angsuman’s Translator Plugin Pro (features, testimonials, get software) is a professionally designed plugin which provides automatic machine translation of your blog in eight different languages - German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean and Chinese. It is search engine optimized, supports WordPress widgets, uses nice permalinks, super-fast (cacheable) and lots more. In short you instantly multiple your page count by 8 while making your blog accessible to a much larger population of non-English speaking world.
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Anaconda Forum Opened http://anaconda.taragana.net/anaconda-forum-opened/ http://anaconda.taragana.net/anaconda-forum-opened/#comments Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:57:49 +0000 angsuman http://anaconda.taragana.net/anaconda-forum-opened/ Anaconda Forum has finally been opened to all. Drop by and let us know your thoughts, suggestions, experience and difficulties, if any, in using Anaconda Theme. Also please help other users with your knowledge and insight.

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How To Use XDForum With Anaconda Theme? http://anaconda.taragana.net/how-to-use-xdforum-with-anaconda-theme/ http://anaconda.taragana.net/how-to-use-xdforum-with-anaconda-theme/#comments Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:29:56 +0000 angsuman http://anaconda.taragana.net/how-to-use-xdforum-with-anaconda-theme/ XDForum is a popular forum software for WordPress blogs which can be easily used with our popular free 3 column Anaconda Theme. It works seamlessly out of the box if you are using default permalink structure. If you are using (or want to use) nice permalinks then here’s how to use XDForum with nice permalinks.

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Angsuman’s Translator Plugin Pro Version 3.1 Released http://anaconda.taragana.net/angsumans-translator-plugin-pro-version-31-released/ http://anaconda.taragana.net/angsumans-translator-plugin-pro-version-31-released/#comments Wed, 20 Sep 2006 12:35:14 +0000 angsuman http://anaconda.taragana.net/angsumans-translator-plugin-pro-version-31-released/ We have just released version 3.1 of popular Translator Plugin Pro for WordPress blogs with better performance and bug fixes. Anaconda Theme comes with built-in support for Translator Plugin Pro.

This new version will be shipped to all of our new and existing customer within 24 hours (lifetime free upgrade). Please honk if you haven’t received your copy in 24 hours :)

The key features and defect fixes in this release are:

1. Translator Plugin Pro can now also be used on localhost to allow you to test it before deployment.

2. Translator Pro is now strict XHTML 1.0 compliant.

3. We have improved the performance by reducing pre-processing time. Additionally the code size is smaller too.

4. We fixed a defect in rewrite rule which prevented posts slugs ending with es or de from being translated.

5. Now you can specifically include file extensions to translate. Previously any file extensions were erroneously assumed suitable for translation, which creates problem with file types like zip or mp3. By default only (virtual) files without extensions, directories and files with .htm and .html are translated.

6. The class names of first and second row of translator in long format has been changed to tgTranslatorFirstRow and tgTranslatorSecondRow respectively.

7. The original user agent passed by the browser is now used to fetch the pages (helps themes which uses the user agent to serve different stylesheets like Wuhan) as well as passed to translation engines. Previously Internet Explorer user agent was used in all cases.

8. We changed all generated html code to use single quotes. This is a nicety. I like clean code.

9. We have stopped trying to translate feeds. Feeds have a xml structure and translator engines cannot properly translate them. In version 4.0 we have plans to try to individually translate feed items and construct the feed for translated versions.

BTW: Did you know Google loves our translated pages? What are you waiting for? Get Angsuman’s Translator Pro now and move miles ahead of your competition.

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How To Add Tabs in Anaconda Theme http://anaconda.taragana.net/how-to-add-tabs-in-anaconda-theme/ http://anaconda.taragana.net/how-to-add-tabs-in-anaconda-theme/#comments Thu, 07 Sep 2006 15:39:23 +0000 angsuman http://anaconda.taragana.net/how-to-add-tabs-in-anaconda-theme/ Create a new page by clicking on Write and then Write Page menu. It is automatically added as a new tab in Anaconda theme.

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How To Display Upto 9 RSS Feeds From Your Sidebar in Anaconda Theme http://anaconda.taragana.net/9/ http://anaconda.taragana.net/9/#comments Tue, 05 Sep 2006 11:49:48 +0000 angsuman http://anaconda.taragana.net/9/ Sidebar Widgets and select the number of RSS Feed Widgets. Then drag each of them to the appropriate sidebars. For each of them click configure to specify the RSS feed to display. Check the left sidebar of this [...]]]> Did you know you can display upto 9 RSS feeds from your blogs sidebar?
Go to Presentattion -> Sidebar Widgets and select the number of RSS Feed Widgets. Then drag each of them to the appropriate sidebars. For each of them click configure to specify the RSS feed to display. Check the left sidebar of this blog to see listings from Simple Thoughts.

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