The Taragana Translator Plugin is the best translation software I have found for Wordpress . Not only is it easily customizable but for only $30 you can have your entire blog translated into 13 languages in less than 15 minutes. It is however beneficial to customize some of the settings and especially to add a bit to the design. I prefer having the flags appe ar at the top of the center column of a three column WordPress layout. Below I have listed some tips on how to easily customize the display of the flags.

The first thing to do is have display the actual flags. The major holdup I had was the home flag, in my case the English or US flag, was not displaying the correct link. No matter what I did it would display the URL of the translation I was currently using. So if I was viewing a German translation page then the US flag would display / de . I finally figured out that you have to wrap your flag display with text to not translate a section of co de . The text to use for not translating is shown below in an example.

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There are a bunch of WordPress plugins that claim to make your blog mobile friendly but after looking through a couple of them the WP-PDA plugin is the best. This plugin support multiple themes such as an iPhone theme and a PDA theme. The cool thing about this is the iPhone and Touch display things completely different than the typical PDA browser so this makes it easy to modify content specified on these two main mobile groups. You can download WP-PDA here. Trust me when I say that iPhone and PDA users that read your blog will appreciate this plugin.

In the admin of WP-PDA you can specify what browsers will use the mobile theme easily. Just visit the plugins link on the top right and you will see a link near plugin editor that is titled PDA. Just update the list and click submit for changes to take affect.

One thing to note is you will need to add your Google Analytics code to the footer of the iphone-theme and the pda-theme for those users to be tracked by Google Analytics. I have also posted an article relating to mobile Adsense ads with this theme so if you want ads check out this link.

It is fairly easy to add Google Adsense ads to the WP-PDA plugin for WordPress. If you follow the easy steps below you will have Google ads showing up in no time with WP-PDA. You will be required to edit the source code for the WP-PDA WordPress plugin so make sure to back things up before you start. One thing to note is the fact that you can only have one Google Mobile Adsense ad at a time currently.

Adding Google Adsense Ads for WP-PDA iPhone/Touch Browsers:

1. Backup Files: Backup any file before you attempt to modify it.
2. Create Google Adsense for Mobile: Visit this link and follow the instructions to create the Google Adsense ad for your mobile content. Be sure to specify PHP for the last step.

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Tags: Ads, Adsense, google, iPhone, mobile adsense, pda, PHP, Touch, WAP, WordPress, WordPress plugin, WP-PDA, xhtml

I have been playing around with Tiltview for the past couple of days which is an addition to a Wordpress plugin called NextGen FlashViewer. Let me start by saying that even though I had a couple problems when starting out the combination of NextGen Gallery, NextGen Flashviewer, and Tiltview is one of the coolest combinations I have seen. It actually is fairly easy to get going and surprisingly when configured properly is not a huge CPU and memory hog. If you have configuration errors as mentioned below it can clearly be a PC resource monster. You definitely can see it taking up some memory but most client PC’s have plenty to handle Tiltview style applications these days. If you have something configured incorrectly as I mention below it wil easily crash browsers and possibly lock up the entire PC. My 1.8 GHz Windows XP laptop with 2GB of RAM was on its knees begging for mercy during troubleshooting the issues I explain below.

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I have a couple people who write articles from time to time sand after installing WP Block Admin they were unable to get to wp-admin anymore. Since we are only using three user levels on this site which are Admin, Author, and Subscriber. On install WP Block Admin is set to only allow Admin and Editor access to /wp-admin so you have to modify wp-content/plugins/wp-block-admin/wp-block-admin.php. Find the line like this:

Change it to this:

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