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So you want a multilingual
WordPress site?
WHO AMI?
erik bernskiöld
consultant
entrepreneur
web strategist
speaker
Advisor @
Consultancy Web & Digital Strategy
WordPress Web Agency
Where are we?Localization in WordPress
More non-english downloads than english!
Internationalization
WHY MULTILINGUAL WEBSITES?
GLOBALIZATION
languages
196COUNTRIES
LANGUAGES6 500
OVER
LANGUAGE APPRECIATION
UNDERSTANDING DIFFERENCES
2.5 methods
PURE TRANSLATION
REGIONAL ADAPTION
(google translate)
THETECHNICAL ASPECTIS EASY
PURE TRANSLATION
SIMPLE !Just Add Language
PLUGINS
SAME STRUCTURE
SAME CONTENT
PLUGINS
Polylang
BUT ??????
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IFWHAT
WE WANT
DIFFERENTCONTENT
REGIONAL ADAPTION
MULTISITE
DIFFERENT STRUCTURE
DIFFERENT CONTENT
CULTURE
“A culture is the configuration of learned behavior and results of behavior whose component elements are shared and transmitted by the members of a particular society”
– Ralph Linton (1945)
LOCALESCOUNTRY + LANGUAGE
english
french
COUNTRY +
LOCALESCOUNTRY + LANGUAGE
THETECHNICAL ASPECTIS EASY
AVIABLE SOLUTIONIS HARD
A FEW WORDS ON USER EXPERIENCE
USER FOCUS
GOOD TRANSLATIONS
Transifex
GlotPress
Poeditor.com
helpful TOOLS
SETTING EXPECTATIONS
LANGUAGE SWITCHER
Finally… Method 0.5
GOOGLE TRANSLATE0.5
QUESTIONS
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So you want a multilingual
WordPress site?
