Hello world 🤟🏻 my name is Francisco, fcoterroba on the Internet and today I’m bringing you a post where we return to development, though not so much programming but rather WordPress!
WordPress is used by 65% of websites that use content management systems (CMS), which represents 43% of the Internet.
And one of the reasons why a multi-language website is created is, obviously, to reach as many readers as possible. Your audience will be maximized.
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Now let’s begin:
1️⃣ FIRST STEP 1️⃣
The first thing we’re going to do is select one of the available plugins in WordPress to create our multi-language website.
The three most famous ones are:
We can compare what each one offers us, their pros and cons, and which one might suit us better. In my case, I’ll use Translatepress, although you can keep following this tutorial if you use any other one since the base is the same.
2️⃣ SECOND STEP 2️⃣
Next, we’re going to access the administration panel of our WordPress website, commonly accessed at yourwebsite.com/wp-admin
3️⃣ THIRD STEP 3️⃣
Now, once inside the administration panel, we go to the Plugins section and add a new plugin
Then, we search for the name of the plugin we want and install it.
4️⃣ FOURTH STEP 4️⃣
Once the plugin is installed, we notice that a new option has been added to the top bar of the administration that says Translate site.
Even so, we’ll need to previously add a second language to our WordPress.
For that, we go to Settings > TranslatePress and add as many languages as we want. In my case, it will only be English.
5️⃣ FIFTH STEP 5️⃣
There are mainly two options in almost all translation plugins. Automatic translation and manual translation.
Both have their pros and cons, automatic will be much easier, faster, and more convenient, but of course, they will be translations that, no matter how much AI translation systems improve, will still be insufficient and native readers may find it difficult to understand.
That’s why if there are few languages like in this case, it will be better to use manual translation.
We have to click the Translate site button that appears at the top of the configuration from the previous step.
This will take us to a kind of WordPress theme editor where we can go, string by string, and translate it.
By clicking on the string we want to translate, we can insert the new translated string.
Important to remember that when we’re done, we need to click the Save translation button.
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Sources: w3techs.com