Roadmap

Clonable will in all likelihood launch an XML feed subscription, allowing you to have your XML feed translated once or dynamically, as well as allowing replacement rules to increase quality. We also plan to build an editor for this eventually, to make proofreading even easier.

As an agency apply SEO changes to the clone and then modify the same page on the original website? Normally then the SEO changes disappear. We want to prevent this by building in a kind of "lock" for clients. They can save the SEO changes in the translated version even though the original website will change.

In addition to checkout in Euro, we also make Dollar subscriptions possible. This makes it easier for international customers outside the Euro area to use Clonable.

Currently, it is common to clone on a new or a subdomain. We also want to offer a subfolder option for all non-WordPress clients. Some clients desire this because of their brand building. We are testing now and with a custom solution it is already possible, but there is still a fairly hefty cost for this.

In Magento, a plugin could improve some functionalities for translation of urls a lot. For this, we are going to develop a plugin in steps. The first version of it will be released around June.

To check how many characters a website consists of, we want to expand the character counter we have already built for internal use and make it ready for potential clients. This will allow customers to estimate how many translation credits they need.

To still be able to translate certain elements that are not translated, there will be a special feature with in-browser translations.

Some customers with huge sites have asked for a backup feature, which would allow them to always have an HTML backup of all pages and translations even in cases where there would be problems at Clonable,.

This update changes the setup funnel of the clone, we have ensured that customers have a better understanding of what tasks they still need and can do for their clones, in doing so there is additional distinction in the type of task for a clone.

In some languages this is very important, e.g. for Germany. Customers can now choose which form of address to use. More formal, more informal or similar to the original website

Arabic was a desired language for our (potential) customers. This has since been added.

This update adds some QOL updates to the teams:

• Can see who is invited to a team
• Can remove invites
• Can see invites that have expired

We noticed a need for proofreading functionality. While we can obviously never make AI translations as good as a native translator, we can use AI to approximate this as closely as possible. We are currently working on a functionality to have the translations checked again by AI. This will give better results, and will be integrated soon.

Many WooCommerce webshop users would like more features to operate their webshop internationally. We are thinking of:
- Currency conversion for clone, making it possible to go from a Euro country to Denmark, for example.
- Assortment changes for foreign clone
- Price changes in foreign clone
- Exclude pages

We have made it possible to choose between different forms of a language. At least in the case of Portuguese for Brazil.

Urls translation could be better. The visitor now has an overview of all translated urls and can also easily edit them manually.

We noticed that sometimes users do not know what substitution rules are for. Sometimes another user or the Clonable support service created the substitution rule. It is nice if you can attach some kind of label to it, which makes it clear what the rule is for.

Webshop customers who use our XML translation module indicated that they would like to have a dynamic feed function, which refreshes the XML feed every day or week with new translations. This has since been realized.

XML feeds are updated if this is enabled:

• User can choose how often XML feed updates (versus additional fees)
• Customers can set a monthly budget for an XML feed
• When a budget is reached, customers receive a notification about it
• Customers can see the different quota of feeds on the usage and billing page.
• Support for larger feeds, up to and including 50MB

To make it even easier for customers to sign up, we are greatly improving and simplifying the signup process. For example, it will also be possible to register a domain at Clonable, after which all the settings for that international domain will be ready to create a Clone immediately. This way, customers no longer have to deal with the DNS change process if they want to.

If customers change their DNS records, the clone website may go offline without them even noticing. We want to build in a signal for this.

We are building an affiliate program to ensure that partners can refer customers and receive an attractive commission for doing so.

We have added Korean as a language you can translate to and from. Because it is not a Latin or Cyrillic language, we give a little less guarantee of its translation quality. We will find out more about this through testing.

We have added Ukrainian as a language you can translate to and from.

To check how many characters a website consists of, we have built a character counter, which can detect with a small margin of error whether a website contains 400,000 or e.g. 1.5 million characters. This makes it easier to choose a subscription for the client.

Urls in XML feeds will also be translated from now on.

• Overview of all changes made to the clone
• Overview of all changes per translation
• Overview of all SEO changes
• Changed the styling of dialog boxes so they look the same on every clone
• Adjusted the styling of the buttons in the editor so that they are changed as little as possible with each clone
• Put the editor buttons in a pop-up dialog for clearer overview
• Added way to adjust button positions for easier editing

• New tab for word lists on the substitution rules page (text replacements).
• Search field and pagination for easy word search.
• Confirmation for deleting words.
• One or more words can be replaced at once.
• Rules automatically adopt capitalization. Thus, only one rule is needed to replace capitalized and uncapitalized words.
• Rules can be set to be case sensitive. Automatic capitalization is then also disabled.
• Rules can be reversed when a rule is deleted.
• When a fragment is edited with the editor to which a rule applies, that rule is not reversed for that fragment.
• For new translations, rules are applied in the order of addition.
• Text replacements apply only to translated excerpts.
• Text replacements are applied before regular substitution rules.

For replacing images, the editor can now be used as well.

• Creates image replacement rules when an image is replaced.
• Detects when an existing rule is modified.
• Detects when a rule is reversed and then deletes it.
• Detects when a user tries to create the same rule twice and will then suggest using the substitution rules.
• On some sites the button does not work properly. It is then (almost) not visible or the underlying button also handles its action which can result in changing the page.

Magento generally works flawlessly with Clonable without any special modifications.

To ensure that customers do not run out of translation characters with smaller subscriptions, we want to introduce 'translation bundles'. For example, you can buy 100,000, 1,000,000 or 5,000,000 characters.

A what-you-see-is-what-you-get editor for modifying translations and elements of your clone. This way, it is possible to make adjustments by simply clicking on what you want to change on the page. This also makes it even easier to have a native proofreader make adjustments while he or she scrolls through the site.

XML translation is made possible. This is for example very useful for keeping track of product feeds and for creating special search engines.

Until recently, translating JSON was not possible. We have now reached the point where this is possible. This feature is currently in beta, since we don't know yet if there will be any problems.

and feature was built so that any employee of Clonable could generate a foreign website as a demo within 5 minutes. This feature allowed many people to be convinced more quickly of the usefulness of Clonable.

The name Clonable is born...