If you are a web developper you probably have a local and/or remote server which hosts several websites, testsites, various apps, etc.. Of course, once in a while you want to make backups of these. If you do it the classic and simple way perhaps you download the websites folder via FTP and make a dump of your database in phpMyAdmin, zip both and store them on a backup drive. But after a while, when you have dozens of sites on your server, you can end up spending a lot of time doing that. That’s exactly what happened to me, and that’s when I started to look for an automated way to do my backups.
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I sometimes use the Shockingly Big IE6 Warning plugin for Wordpress to tell people to upgrade their browser and get rid of this dangerous and prehistorical piece of software Internet Explorer 6. Why would you do this as a developer? Here are some good arguments.
Today I took some time to translate this neat little plugin into french.
You can download the translation here : shockingly-big-ie6-warning-fr_FR.mo
Note : The translation is based on version 1.6.3 of the plugin.
Following a discussion on the WPML Forum, Amir invited me to write a guest tutorial post on the WPML blog.
You can read it here : Creating a multilingual product catalog with Wordpress and WPML