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If you have a website, chances are that you'll be updating it at some stage. From minuscule punctuation corrections to changing the banner, it's good to keep your viewers up to scratch on the development of your site. Visitors like to know that they were a part of (or at least informed of) the growth of an entity. Blogs are specifically engineered to be as user-friendly and intuitive as possible when it comes to posting updates, but they aren't necessarily the most potent way to achieve this. As noted in the previous version of this article, other Content Management Systems (of which blogs are a variety) provide much more options with regards to the layout of your site, the displaying of content and the organisation of pages. One such CMS is GetSimple, and plugin developer mvlcek has recently updated his i18n Search plugin to become an incredibly useful and powerful news system.

So how does i18n Search work?

Reading this, I'm assuming that you know what GetSimple is, as well as how to insta

Content Management Systems (CMSs) are pretty self-explanatory: they are dynamic ways of maintaining, displaying and publishing content, and they seek to be intuitive, feature-rich and easy to use. One such a system is GetSimple, a CMS with a tiny zip file-size, and an expansive array of useful plugins to enhance its utility.

Now if you have a site that isn't made up of purely static web-pages, you are going to want to show your visitors flag-points of when certain content was produced or published, and the best way that most CMSs do this is with 'blogging' or 'news publishing' software. There are a number of such plugins available on GetSimple's Plugins Repository, but from what I have tested thus far, long-time plugin developer Mvlcek has produced one of the most extensive and useful plugins for achieving this to date. However some may find it a little difficult to get around, because it is primarily a Search Engine Plugin for allowing visitors to easily search the pages of your si

GetSimple Tutorial: Creating a blog with the I18N plugin(s)

Ever wanted to have a complete blogging module for GetSimple? Did you know that such a feat is achievable through the use of a number of GetSimple plugins? Look no further than this tutorial in order to discover how to construct such a module yourself!

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html>
	<head>
	<meta charset="utf-8">
	<title>elFinder 2.x source version with PHP connector</title>
	<script src="jquery/jquery-1.9.1.min.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>

	<script src="jquery/jquery-ui-1.10.1.custom.min.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>
	<link rel="stylesheet" href="jquery/ui-themes/smoothness/jquery-ui-1.10.1.custom.css" type="text/css" media="screen" title="no title" charset="utf-8">

	// This snippet shows how to add simple internationalization (i18n)
	// functionality to your jQuery plugin
	// The concept is general enough to apply to any library and not just jQuery
	// This is based slightly on how elFinder does its i18n functionality
	;(function($, window, document, undefined) {

	// Create your plugin on the $.fn namespace
	// We are using @plugin as an alias so that we can attach properties to it
	// later on without having to do $.fn.plugin.propertyName etc
	var plugin = $.fn.plugin = function(options) {

	;(function($, window, document, undefined) {

	// == BONUS 1 ==
	// Others can add to your modules by extending $.fn.plugin.modules literal
	// E.g: (accessed with $(selector).plugin().externalModule(opts))
	$.fn.plugin.modules.externalModule = function(opts) {
	// Code for this plugin ...
	};

	// == BONUS 2 ==

	// This piece of code illustrates how you can build a series of jQuery plugins
	// nested on your own desired namespace. So if you have a plugin named 'plugin',
	// it can have the signature:
	// $(selector).plugin(opts)
	// and there can exist jQuery plugins 'module1', 'module2', 'module3', ... which
	// have the signatures:
	// $(selector).plugin().module1(opts)
	// $(selector).plugin().module2(opts)
	// $(selector).plugin().module3(opts)
	// These modules are written almost exactly like normal jQuery plugins bound

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So how does i18n Search work?

GetSimple Tutorial: Creating a blog with the I18N plugin(s)

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