Speedy Translate

“Can the site be in German too?” is one of the first questions an owner asks once the booking site is live, and it is a fair one. A guest cannot book what they cannot read, and the booking sites already show the same rooms in the guest’s language. A direct site that answers only in English hands those guests back to the sites that charge a commission on every night.

The answer is yes, and it costs an afternoon rather than a licence, once you see that “the site in the guest’s language” is four separate layers: the booking engine’s own words, the owner’s descriptions, the rest of the site, and everything sent after the booking. The first ships with Solidres in its language packs. The other three come from Joomla’s content languages plus one free extension, Speedy Translate Lite, which adds language tabs to the forms the owner already uses.

Our mission for Speedy Translation is always the same “to make translation work in Joomla! easier and speedier”, that’s why we’ve just released a new Speedy Translate version with a new feature called “Automatic translation”, you can check it in our animated GIF below to have a quick overview of this feature:

Speedy Translate is now able to provide automatic translation suggestion for our Inline Translation feature using Translate API from Yandex Technologies, this API is free therefore you can try out right now, don’t forget to upgrade your Speedy Translate to the latest version. If you are having an active Speedy Translate subscription, then you can grab the new version from our Download page. Otherwise, let subscribe/renew Speedy Translate subscription and leave all the Joomla translation work headache behind, right now!

The New Year is coming and we wish you a New Year as cheerful and happy as you are.

In the recent months, we’ve been working on many exiting new features for Solidres which will be available in the beginning of 2017. But let save that for 2017, let talk about our brand new Joomla extension: Speedy Translate.

Solidres 4.5.0 is out, and its headline is a Reports screen. Occupancy, ADR, RevPAR and revenue are worked out night by night, so a stay that runs across the end of a month counts in both months, as an accountant or a revenue manager would count it. Every figure can be charted, compared with the period before and exported to CSV.

It also puts online booking on the website a property already has: Solidres can now run as a booking site beside that website, and the booking form that sends guests to it is free.

The release also gives Solidres a place in Joomla’s own administrator menu and a dashboard that opens on today’s arrivals and departures, moves every Solidres update to Joomla’s updater, and makes Solidres pages follow your template’s light or dark mode. It fixes a security issue with bookings made without an account, so we recommend updating. And it starts a clear-out: Complex Tariff and Statistics leave in 4.6.0, and support for Falang is on its way out.

We are happy to announce two new Speedy Translate versions: 1.10.0 (for Joomla 4) and 1.9.1 (for Joomla 3). These new versions contain new features and several bug fixes/enhancements, detailed change log can be found below:

Speedy Translate v1.10.0

• Add support for Joomla 4
• DeepL integration is added in addition to Google Cloud Translation and Yandex Translate
• Support Joomla custom field type “Repeatable/Subform”
• Add IMG tag support for automatic translation service

Speedy Translate v1.9.1

• DeepL integration is added in addition to Google Cloud Translation and Yandex Translate
• Support Joomla custom field type “Repeatable/Subform”
• Add IMG tag support for automatic translation service

All active Speedy Translate subscribers can download new versions from menu Download > Show all downloads. Please let us know if you have any questions/issues by raising new support ticket, we are happy to help.

First of all, on the behalf of Solidres Team, we hope that all Solidres users and your families are still safe during this Covid outbreak. We are suffering too and we hope this situation will be improved as soon as possible, all together.

Speedy Translate 1.9.0 (Beta) is now available, this release marks a very important milestone for this product with the following big features and improvements, please read more info below, but please bear in mind that this is just a first BETA release, it is not yet ready, bugs are expected, you should only use it for previewing/testing purposes.

Speedy Translate 2.0.0 is here, and it’s a big one. We’ve rebuilt the extension from the ground up on Joomla 6’s modern architecture, so building a multilingual Joomla site is faster, cleaner, and ready for what comes next.

Speedy Translate 3.0 is out, and it is the biggest release since the first one. It now comes in two editions: Speedy Translate Lite, free, which translates a whole Joomla 6 site and adds nothing to your pages, and Speedy Translate Pro, for large sites and agencies. It is also fast. On every page we measured, it served translated pages faster than Falang, up to 5.8 times as fast.

Behind that sits a rebuilt translation engine, hreflang tags and translated URLs, a setup check that makes a site multilingual from the dashboard, and a one-click import from Falang. Pro adds bulk translation with ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini that runs in the background. The release also closes several security issues, so every site on Speedy Translate 2 should update.

Since v1.6.0, Speedy Translate component is now able to translate Joomla Custom Field feature (both key + value) with an intuitive user interface.