Multi-lingual sites with WordPress

An introduction to building Multi-lingual sites with WordPress

Introduction à la création d'un site multi-langues avec WordPress

Introducción a la creación de un sitio múlti idiomas con
WordPress

About myself

Wordpress codex http://codex.wordpress.org/ WordPress_in_Your_Language

Discovery Understanding the need

Discovery - the need * Editorial - localisation * Translation
- internationalisation * Informs solution e.g. multi-site or single site

Discovery - user journeys * Site level * Post level

Design Designing for multi-lingual sites

Design - layout Allow enough space

Design - layout Designing blind

Design - layout RTL - ﬂip the design

The Build Architecting a solution

Language context * ?lang=es * /es/ * es. * body
class=es

HTML Language codes <html lang="en"> <html lang="es"> <html lang="fr"> http://www.w3schools.com/tags/
ref_language_codes.asp

Text Direction HTML <p dir="rtl">!"ود%&ا ه)* ل,-</p> CSS p {direction:rtl;}

Character encoding Unicode & ISO 10646 <meta charset="UTF-8"> Should about
cover everything

Language ﬁles - Admin /wp-content/languages/ http://codex.wordpress.org/ WordPress_in_Your_Language

Language files - Admin * wp-config.php: single site define('WPLANG', 'pt_BR');
multi site define('WPLANG', ''); then set in admin

Declare theme text domain <?php load_theme_textdomain('my_theme', get_template_directory() . '/ languages');
?>

Abstract terms in theme <?php _e('Hello World', my_theme'); ?> .
__( 'Hello World', 'my_theme' ) . http://codex.wordpress.org/ Translating_WordPress

Language ﬁles - Theme * Poedit - .po > .mo

Customisation * Taxonomies/Tags - arghhhh * Queries - there be
dragons * Widgets * Plugins * Feeds - ﬂickr, facebook etc * RSS - http://codex.wordpress.org/ Customizing_Feeds

Plugins * WPML * xili-language * qTranslate * Polylang *
Google AJAX Translation * Multisite Language Switcher http://codex.wordpress.org/ Multilingual_WordPress

Polylang List view WPML qTranslate

qTranslate qTranslate xili Polylang Post view WPML

WPML WPML xili qTranslate Polylang Categories

Don’t switch between them ;) qTranslate > Polylang

Translation services * ICANLOCALIZE * Community of translators * $0.07
per word

Translation APIs * Google Translate - Pay per request $20
per 1 M characters Limit 2M chars/day. * Bing Translator - Free

To sum up...

Thankyou twitter: @dogwonder

Multi-lingual sites with WordPress

Multi-lingual sites with WordPress

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An introduction to building Multi-lingual sites with WordPress

Introduction à la création d'un site multi-langues avec WordPress

Introducción a la creación de un sitio múlti idiomas con

About myself

Wordpress codex http://codex.wordpress.org/ WordPress_in_Your_Language

Discovery Understanding the need

Discovery - the need * Editorial - localisation * Translation

Discovery - user journeys * Site level * Post level

Design Designing for multi-lingual sites

Design - layout Allow enough space

Design - layout Designing blind

Design - layout RTL - ﬂip the design

The Build Architecting a solution

Language context * ?lang=es * /es/ * es. * body

HTML Language codes <html lang="en"> <html lang="es"> <html lang="fr"> http://www.w3schools.com/tags/

Text Direction HTML <p dir="rtl">!"ود%&ا ه)* ل,-</p> CSS p {direction:rtl;}

Character encoding Unicode & ISO 10646 <meta charset="UTF-8"> Should about

Language ﬁles - Admin /wp-content/languages/ http://codex.wordpress.org/ WordPress_in_Your_Language

Language files - Admin * wp-config.php: single site define('WPLANG', 'pt_BR');

Declare theme text domain <?php load_theme_textdomain('my_theme', get_template_directory() . '/ languages');

Abstract terms in theme <?php _e('Hello World', my_theme'); ?> .

Language ﬁles - Theme * Poedit - .po > .mo

Customisation * Taxonomies/Tags - arghhhh * Queries - there be

Plugins * WPML * xili-language * qTranslate * Polylang *

Polylang List view WPML qTranslate

qTranslate qTranslate xili Polylang Post view WPML

WPML WPML xili qTranslate Polylang Categories

Don’t switch between them ;) qTranslate > Polylang

Translation services * ICANLOCALIZE * Community of translators * $0.07

Translation APIs * Google Translate - Pay per request $20

To sum up...

Thankyou twitter: @dogwonder