Stories from August 24th, 2008

Pixaria 2.5 Now Available

I'm very excited to announce that Pixaria 2.5 is now available for all registered users of Pixaria 2.0 and above. This release includes a couple of minor bug fixes and enhancements but the main addition is full support for multiple languages on the software front end.

The process of converting all the existing templates to make them capable of being localised (translated) has taken a long time to complete but hopefully it will be worth the wait as there are already people working on translations into French, German and Dutch.

When upgrading to version 2.5, you will notice that almost every front end template in /resources/templates_default/ has been changed since the last version. While it may appear that you need to replace any custom templates you have created for your site, this should not be necessary and existing theme customisations should work perfectly well with the new templates without any modification.

I've posted full details of how to go about translating Pixaria on the documentation wiki so if you're keen to have a go and snag yourself a free Pixaria license, why not have a go.

As usual, registered users can request the upgrade files by e-mailing me at upgrade@pixaria.com.

Translation progress update

So far, I've had a couple of offers of assistance in translating Pixaria into other languages and we thought it would be a good idea to post some details here to avoid duplication...

The languages currently being worked on are:

1. French - Frederic Sune
2. Dutch - Christian Titeca
3. German - Adrian Wackernah

If you'd like to work on a new translation, you can find all the details in the online documentation here:

http://www.pixaria.com/wiki/TranslatingPixaria/