Blogging in Indic Languages, do you ?

By dinu | Published: June 8, 2008

I have started blogging in Malayalam too !!

I find reading Malayalam blogs more interesting than actually writing blogs in Malayalam…. may be because I am not used to writing Malayalam online using the transliteration and similar stuff, where we write words using English letters which will be changed to the desired language automatically.

When I started reading Malayalam blogs, I found that most of them use Blogger.com since they have the transliteration feature, a feature which makes blogging in Indic languages really easy. Why don’t they just use WordPress.org or WordPress.com ? We really need more people start using WordPress, to blog in Indic languages. Don’t you think so ?

Initially I started with Blogger itself, and then started copying the content to WordPress and it worked perfect. Just that I typed everything using Blogger.com and then published it using WordPress.org blog on this domain itself. ( sssh … secret .. I have another installation of WordPress on this domain where I play with themes and now Malayalam Blogging )

If you install certain softwares, which enables transliteration on your computer, you can directly blog in Indic languages, using WordPress platform. So I installed “Keyman” and started writing to WordPress blog directly, in Malayalam.

Next, I tried to edit wordpress themes, and translate them to Malayalam. I think, its pretty much easy to do. I haven’t finished it yet, but I will link to the translated wordpress theme as soon as its done.

Recently, I found that there is actually a Malayalam section at WordPress.com itself.

I will try to bring more Malayalam bloggers to WordPress. For that, I will have to convince them that WordPress is the best that they can get … I am sure you guys can help me with resources which will help me to collect information to convince these guys… please let me know about websites, blogs, or your own posts about this.

Do you blog in any other language ? may be your mother tongue ? do you use WordPress or blgger.com ? Any tips ?

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20 Comments

  1. Rekha
    Posted June 8, 2008 at 10:40 pm | Permalink

    wow! malayalam sec in wordpress ..dats really great..will test malayalam in wordpress one day :)

  2. dinu
    Posted June 8, 2008 at 11:08 pm | Permalink

    @ Rekha..

    Yes, be sure to drop me a comment when u have something up there :)

  3. Philip
    Posted June 9, 2008 at 5:49 am | Permalink

    Btw, what is ur malayalam blog? Maybe i can try practising the 2-3 alphabets that i know ;)

  4. dinu
    Posted June 9, 2008 at 9:35 am | Permalink

    @ Philip

    http://sometimesifeelthat.blogspot.com ……. the blogger one.. I am testing the wordpress one.. will let u know later :) if u have font issues, let me know

    :)

  5. | Balu |
    Posted June 9, 2008 at 3:55 pm | Permalink

    Hmm I wouldn’t mind trying// I had font problems when I first tried so I gave up. plus I never figured the typing in malayalam part!

  6. dinu
    Posted June 9, 2008 at 4:12 pm | Permalink

    Okay, its really easy :) I will help you with font issues… for now, here is a link which has all the info http://malayalam-blogs.blogspot.com/ install the font.. and then start on wordpress or blogger.. :) typing is easy.. simply type in Manglish.. it will be changed to Malayalam ;)

  7. xylene
    Posted June 10, 2008 at 10:45 pm | Permalink

    that google thing is just great. also http://www.quillpad.in

  8. dinu
    Posted June 11, 2008 at 9:28 am | Permalink

    @ Xylene

    Yep it is…. but be careful when yous say blogger is great… especially when Ruhi is around ;)

  9. xylene
    Posted June 13, 2008 at 11:07 am | Permalink

    I dont think blogger is great. wordpress rocks ! but yeah google, gmail, etc etc are indeed gr….
    **saw ruhi and stopped talking**

    :D

  10. dinu
    Posted June 13, 2008 at 11:56 am | Permalink

    @ Xylene

    Blogger is not great .. it just sucks in most of the things.. but transliteration + google adsense has made them capable of making it big…..

  11. pR@tz
    Posted June 13, 2008 at 7:10 pm | Permalink

    one thing I like in the new blogger is the comment tracking by e-mail….

    I have written a post in my wordpress blog on different features of wordpress and blogspot… should I spam here ;)

    Malayalam rendering is perfect afetr Windows XP SP2 (install support for complex scripts in Control Panel–> Regional settings), and use firefox 3 …(don’t forget to download Firefox 3 on coming Tuesday)

    Malayalam renders perfect in GNU/Linux … with fonts like meera (which won’t work perfectly in M$ windows), the rendering is SUPERB!!!!…. I love meera… :)

  12. dinu
    Posted June 13, 2008 at 10:00 pm | Permalink

    @ pR@tz

    Comment tracking is a good feature…. but there are tonnes of other features on WordPress that Blogger cant give… and yea be careful when you praise Blogger here lol there are Blogger hate community around us :P jk jk

  13. pR@tz
    Posted June 14, 2008 at 12:43 am | Permalink

    thnx for calling me pR@tz …. :D … everyone calls me ‘njaan’ these days (though I am njaan at my blogspot blog)…… [yeah! a frnd of M.A.Dhavan..... ;) ]

    I am a fan of blogger for its unique features like post-by-email (though I haven’t used it yet, but is handy when blogspot is blocked in your org.) and as I said before the comment tracking feature…

    I also have the the opinion that wordpress is NOT powerful as blogger when it is at wordpress.com …. i cant edit my templates, i cant insert scripts,….. and I think blogger is much more n00b-friendly …… esp with the new design, wordpress is latin n greek for a n00b

    but… again.. am a fan of wordpress

  14. dinu
    Posted June 16, 2008 at 12:51 pm | Permalink

    @ pR@tz

    Okay ……… I will call u pR@tz always … fan of blogger ? hmmm and talking evil against wordpress ? hmmmm u r going to get fired or arrested soon !!!

  15. pR@tz
    Posted June 16, 2008 at 3:17 pm | Permalink

    I didn’t say I am a fan of blogger…. but that wordpress blogs @ wordpress.com IS NOT powerful as blogspot.com blogs… :) …but if you install wordpress in your domain, nothing will come near it….

  16. dinu
    Posted June 16, 2008 at 3:31 pm | Permalink

    @ pR@tz

    But, blogger is controlling a lot of stuff…. not as open source as wordpress is ….. blogger theme designing and editing is much complicated.. ( I agree, when it comes to wordpress.com blogs, you should pay them if you need to edit css ) . above all .. the commenting part is too much complicated…… if you dont have a blogger ID or if you are using your own domain or other blogging service……..

  17. banna
    Posted July 21, 2008 at 7:14 pm | Permalink

    yea,
    i am trying to setup a malayalam Wp blog in a new domain .but whats the needed plugin for that? mean the typing thing
    i know abut Wp installtion.

  18. banna
    Posted July 21, 2008 at 7:27 pm | Permalink

    പ്രിയപ്പെട്ടവരെ,

  19. dinu
    Posted July 21, 2008 at 7:35 pm | Permalink

    @ Banna

    Thanks for visiting my blog :)

    I was looking for a plugin, so that we can enable transliteration as in Blogger.com, on wordpress too :)

  20. Sree
    Posted August 22, 2008 at 5:53 am | Permalink

    Hello banna and others,

    I wrote a plugin to enable transliteration of indic languages including malayalam in self-hosted wordpress blogs.

    Visit http://teck.in/google-indic-transliteration-wordpress-plugin.html and download the plugin.

    ——-
    ഹലോ banna, മറ്റു കൂട്ടുകാരെ,

    മലയാളം ഉള്‍പ്പെടെയുള്ള ഇന്ത്യന്‍ ഭാഷ പരിവര്‍ത്തനം ചെയ്യാന്‍ ഗൂഗിള്‍ API ഉപയോഗിക്കുന്ന ഒരു വേര്‍ഡ്പ്രസ്സ് പ്ലഗ്-ഇന്‍ ഞാന്‍ എഴുതിയിട്ടുണ്ട്.

    à´ˆ സൈറ്റില്‍ പോയി പ്ലഗ്-ഇന്‍ ഡൌണ്‍ലോഡ് ചെയ്യൂ – http://teck.in/google-indic-transliteration-wordpress-plugin.html

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