DiscoMoose

When I first installed WordPress on this site, I went to the codex plugin list and went a bit mad over the extreme extensibility on offer, grabbing many plugins, just to try them out. A lot of them I disabled after a short while (not that they weren't good, they weren't anything I was wanting to use). Anyway, one of the plugins which is almost completely useless to me, but which I have left activated is the Simple Thoughts Automatic Translation Plugin, which provides the little translation bar with the flags which you can see on the right of this page. I left it activated simply because it is neat.

As I use nice mod_rewritten URLs for all other WordPress powered content on this site, I decided to try and hack the script to allow nice translation URLs:
Old: http://discomoose.org/wp-content/plugins/translator.php?l=de&u=http://discomoose.org/
New: http://discomoose.org/translate/de/http://discomoose.org/
Now, I'm not experienced with mod_rewrite at all, so this is more than likely a poorly implemented hack. But equipped with an excellent mod_rewrite beginner's guide (found via Digg) I set about trying to implement it.

What I came up with is this:
In /wp-content/plugins/translator.php, change the get_translated_url function to this:

And add the following to the top of .htaccess:

Then URLs such as /translate/<language>/<url> will work. As of yet I haven't encountered any major problems with this hack, but that's not to say there aren't any

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