On websites targeting users from one country may be relevant locate the server in that country. However, for websites that are targeted to users around the world, server location is not very relevant due to the possibility to set a country target in Google Webmasters Tools and due to the existence of the so-called CDNs. In Read More

By default, WordPress is presented in English, but you can make a WordPress site in more than 80 different languages: Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, etc. You can have your WordPress website in any language or create a website in multiple languages. In this series of three Read More

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

  In the following review I’m going to show you one of the best multilingual plugin available for WordPress. You´ll learn everything you need to know to use it and why I bought it and use it on many multilingual projects. Introduction WPML is a commercial plugin, designed to make it extremely easy for you to create a Read More

WordPress is used all over the world and users and customers expect themes and plugins to be translatable and available in multiple languages. Currently many WordPress themes and plugins are translation-ready, but many of them have not been translated. Most popular themes and plugins have been translated into multiple languages Read More

In this article you will learn how to translate Genesis Framework into different languages almost automatically. You only need to set up your language and install three very light plugins to have Genesis 100% translated into other languages. One of the many advantages of using Genesis framework for Wordpress is that you Read More

A very important decision before starting a multilingual WordPress site is choosing the right multilingual theme. In this article I make an analysis of the main multilingual WordPress themes and which have already been translated into other languages using collaborative translation platforms such as GlotPress, Transifex or Read More