Multi-lingual sites with WordPress

An introduction to building Multi-lingual sites with WordPress

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1. An introduction to building Multi-lingual sites with WordPress
2. Introduction à la création d'un site multi-langues avec WordPress
3. Introducción a la creación de un sitio múlti idiomas con WordPress
4. About myself
6. Wordpress codex http://codex.wordpress.org/ WordPress_in_Your_Language
7. Discovery Understanding the need
8. Discovery - the need * Editorial - localisation * Translation - internationalisation * Informs solution e.g. multi-site or single site
9. Discovery - user journeys * Site level * Post level
10. Design Designing for multi-lingual sites
11. Design - layout Allow enough space
14. Design - layout Designing blind
15. Design - layout RTL - flip the design
17. The Build Architecting a solution
18. Language context * ?lang=es * /es/ * es. * body class=es
19. HTML Language codes <html lang="en"> <html lang="es"> <html lang="fr"> http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ ref_language_codes.asp
20. Text Direction HTML <p dir="rtl">!"ود%&ا ه)* ل,-</p> CSS p {direction:rtl;}
21. Character encoding Unicode & ISO 10646 <meta charset="UTF-8"> Should about cover everything
22. Language files - Admin /wp-content/languages/ http://codex.wordpress.org/ WordPress_in_Your_Language
24. Language files - Admin * wp-config.php: single site define('WPLANG', 'pt_BR'); multi site define('WPLANG', ''); then set in admin
26. Declare theme text domain <?php load_theme_textdomain('my_theme', get_template_directory() . '/ languages'); ?>
27. Abstract terms in theme <?php _e('Hello World', my_theme'); ?> . __( 'Hello World', 'my_theme' ) . http://codex.wordpress.org/ Translating_WordPress
28. Language files - Theme * Poedit - .po > .mo
32. Customisation * Taxonomies/Tags - arghhhh * Queries - there be dragons * Widgets * Plugins * Feeds - flickr, facebook etc * RSS - http://codex.wordpress.org/ Customizing_Feeds
33. Plugins * WPML * xili-language * qTranslate * Polylang * Google AJAX Translation * Multisite Language Switcher http://codex.wordpress.org/ Multilingual_WordPress
34. Polylang List view WPML qTranslate
35. qTranslate qTranslate xili Polylang Post view WPML
36. WPML WPML xili qTranslate Polylang Categories
37. Don’t switch between them ;) qTranslate > Polylang
38. Translation services * ICANLOCALIZE * Community of translators * $0.07 per word
40. Translation APIs * Google Translate - Pay per request $20 per 1 M characters Limit 2M chars/day. * Bing Translator - Free
41. To sum up...
42. Thankyou twitter: @dogwonder