With the release of Wordpress 2.6 a couple of days ago, many webmasters and bloggers has updated their blog as it offers many additional functionality in terms of customization and security. But this upgrade has never been as easy as it used to be in earlier version of Wordpress. Due to security reasons the desired file permission structure has also been changed in the recent version of Wordpress. You might have noticed that aftre upgrading to WP 2.6, you are no longer able to edit the themes from Wordpress administration panel unless you are making the particular theme folder permission to global writable i.e CHMOD 777 recursively. Same applies for the upload folder, unless it is global writable you will not be able to upload a ny image to the upload folder. As these are the day to day things a blogger will come across they will make the required modification for smotth functioning of the blog.

However a couple of problems may still lie after the upgrade and one of them I have noticed is the language translator plug-in called Global Translator by N2H. Though I upgraded the blog on the second day of the release of the WP 2.6 version I never noticed that this plug-in is not doing the job it has been assigned to do. Today I was chatting with one of my blog visitor and he notified me about the dead plug-in. I tested that out and infact the plug-in was sitting quitely without doing any job. While clicking on any language flag I was receiving this error “Sorry, the Google translation engine is temporarily not available. Please try again later or switch to another translation engine.”

I quickly checked many other blogs to verify if the plug-in has issue with WP 2.6 or it is issue with my WP installation. I saw that many of the blogs using that plug-ins and WP 2.6 combo has the same issue. That indicated that either those bloggers have not noticed the issue or they are not sure what is the solution. In order to isolate and correct the issue I tried the following:

Went into WP admin Panel and Settings and clicking on the Global Translator asked me to change the file permission of cache folder.

This plug-in utilizes a Cache folder located at wp-content/plugins/global-translator/ and the default permission for this folder is 755 but Wp 2.6 wants this folder to be World writable that means the cache folder should have permission of 777 and you need to apply this permission recursively so that the same permission will be applied to any child folder.

Changing the cache folder permission to 777 changed the error mesaage to Sorry, the Google translation engine is temporarily not available. Please try again later. But it is just a coincidence as my issue is still not resolved. Next thing I tried is changed from Google translation service to Babel Fish and I was able to see the plug-in started working. I quickly tried Prompt translation and all of them worked. So now I was sure that the issue lie with the google translator service.

If any one using the Google Translator service in the Global Translator plugin has got any success or know the trick to correct it please let me know as the Google Translator is the best among the all available.

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