Pootle is open source, it has been in development for a number of years, it’s used by many other people, it’s feature rich, etc.

Pootle works with XLIFF and PO and PHP files can be easily transformed so that Pootle can read them. This allows people to work online or offline.

Pootle also has features like TM and glossary support which are usually ignored or forgotten by most people who believe that by giving someone a textarea you can make them a translator.

“It was free — certainly a selling point. But it’s wasn’t the easiest blog to install or maintain in the early years. ISPs weren’t exactly offering it as a one-click install back then. And don’t get me started on the challenges of updating plug-ins.”

Those difficulties still exist today, and that’s one of the main differences with TypePad, which doesn’t expect you to have technical skills, to know how to maintain a server and a WP installation, including the plugins.

We also need to pay attention when we say that WP is free. The software is, but you need to pay for a server, and I don’t speak about the time you spend to maintain it.

Anyway, let see how GlotPress can help.

Best
Romain