Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Multilingual WordPress Websites with Polylang

WordPress is available in a lot of different languages. However, when you switch to another language in the “General Settings” panel, by default, you can’t use several languages at the same time.

Sometimes, being able to use several languages what we're after. I can illustrate this assertion with my own example: my blog is available in two languages (English and French). If you prefer the French language, you can switch to it without any problem, I don’t need to switch the entire website language preferences.

By default, it’s not possible to do this in WordPress, but there are plugins that can help you achieve this goal. In this article I'll introduce you to an entirely free and complete plugin called Polylang. We'll look at how to install it, how to configure it and, above all, how to use it to translate the entire website (not only the posts!).

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by Jérémy Heleine via SitePoint

1 comment:

  1. Awesome article and thank you for sharing!
    Because I was going thru these same steps over and over, I decided to address these items in great detail and created a course.

    Until end of January I’m doing a 50% discount on my course about creating multilingual websites using Wordpress and the multi-site feature, the coupon code is already in the link below :
    https://goo.gl/Iasa8Z

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