Archives for January 2015

If you have a multilingual website, you should inform search engines worldwide on the different languages of your website (domains, subdomains, subdirectories or even pages). I show you how to add your website to multilingual (Google and Bing), Russian (Yandex) and Chinese (Baidu) search engines, even if your website is only in Read More

In this post I show you how to translate author information (biographical info) in WordPress using WPML (and String Translations module) or using a WordPress Multisite installation (and a plugin called Individual Multisite Author). You can translate author bio using WPML (WordPress single) or using WordPress Read More

A common question in multilingual WordPress websites is how to make sitemaps in different languages. Create a sitemap in two o more languages implies including additional attributes (hreflang tags), but sitemap plugins for WordPress don't add these attributes. However some translation plugins include these annotations in Read More

Slugs are a URL friendly of the post title. WordPress automatically generates slugs but you can edit and translate slugs below the post title. In this post I show you some tips to translate slugs in your WordPress site: Remove stop words, use short slugs but containing the most important keywords, use transliteration for Read More