Setting Up A MultiLingual WordPress Site With Polylang
You can set up a Multilingual WordPress site with a great
plugin called Polylang, there are a few ways to make multilingual sites and
people can get quite opinionated about this, for larger sites with complete
duplication you may want to consider doing it with a multi-site set up but for
smaller needs you can get away with a smaller set up.
One of the key things to note is that these plugins or set
ups won’t translate your content into another language you still need to get
your text translated and provided in the other language ready to be
pasted into your page.
This guide looks at setting up a mulitlingual site with a
free plugin maintained by an active developer, first thing is to make sure the
WordPress theme is Internationalized which essential means the theme is ready to
be translated into other languages, a process known as localisation.
Polylang
Download and install Polylang activate
it. Go to settings via the plugin or via Settings > Languages, here is
where you add the desired languages.
Chinese Language is selected in the above example
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When you add the language the required .mo and .po files are
downloaded and filed in wp-content/languages/.
.po and .mo files downloaded
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Now since this is a multilingual site as well as our other
languages we also need to add in our default language which more than
likely will be English add this in the same way and pick your English flavour,
US, GB, CA or AUS. This will also determine the flag used on the language
switcher.
English Added
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Next is to swap to the Settings tab and set the default
language.
Set default language
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Also here set your URL settings, I like to keep it simple
and not set the language abbreviation in the URL and remove the word /languages/
from the URL string. This is also a safeguard in that if the plugin was
deactivated I would still have all my links working for the default language.
It’s also worth pointing out here that all additional
content added via Polylang for additional languages is stored additionally in
the WordPress database so disabling the plugin leaves the core language and
re-enabling the plugin adds back in all the other language content.
On a first time install you will also be asked There
are posts, pages, categories or tags without language set. Do you want to set
them all to default language ? Where you can set these to the default
language.
On the middle tab string translations, certain WordPress
settings, plugins and widgets are available where you can enter in the other
languages text strings.
Sorting Out The Menus
Next up is to address any pre-existing menus, you need to
re-save the menu to the default language and create new menus for the other
language. Additional theme locations are added per menu per language.
Saving Menus per language
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So if an exact duplicate menu is required for the 2nd
language, create the menu and assign the 2nd language theme location.
Menu Switcher
Polylang gives an option of adding a menu language switcher
between the languages to add to the menu.
Front End View
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You will need to add the switcher to both language menus to
be able to toggle between languages.
Widget Switching
Widgets are handled by adding additional widgets in the
appropriate areas and selecting whether you are displaying them for one or
multiple languages.
This is all done.
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Post & Pages Switching
Since we have already set default language on post/page/cat
& tag (in the set up of the plugin) we have the content in it’s intended
language to create an equivalent page in the other language just click
the translation pencil edit icon and add in your multilingual content.
These posts/pages are then available in the menus so you can
add them into your other language menu.
For categories and tags the same procedure applies.
Flag Switcher
As well as the menu switcher there is a widget switcher
which can display a number of indicators to swap language which can be place in
any widgetized area.
This is all done.
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