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
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How To Translate Author Information In WordPress
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
How To Make Sitemaps In Multiple Languages With WordPress
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
How To Translate Slugs In WordPress: Stop Words, Transliteration And Keywords
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
WPML Review – WordPress Multilingual Plugin
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
Translation Management and Collaboration Platforms for WordPress Developers
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
A Guide to Choosing a Multilingual WordPress Theme
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
What does «translation ready theme» mean in WordPress?
When talking about WordPress localization and translation, you can find terms such as «translation ready theme», «multilingual ready theme», «fully translation-ready», «compatible WPML theme», etc. In this post I try to explain these terms, beginning with the concepts of internationalization, localization and Read More
WordPress 4.1: Install Language Packs From Dashboard
Two months ago WordPress 4.0 introduced internationalization and localization improvements. WordPress 4.1 is expected to be released in the second week of December, 2014 with new localization improvements: Install language packs from admin area. WordPress 4.1 Beta 1 is now available, but the software is still in development. Read More
Multilingual SEO for WordPress Sites
The process of promoting your website or blog is called SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and when it’s happening on a multilingual site, is called multilingual SEO. In this post I show you the right tools to make multilingual SEO in your WordPress website WordPress does not offer a simple solution for building multilingual Read More