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