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On Multilingual WordPress Sites

On Multilingual WordPress Sites

At WordCamp Europe 2019, the largest WordPress conference to date, I presented my take on multilingual WordPress websites.

To democratise publishing, internationalisation is one of many barriers that WordPress needs to overcome. That’s why, for 2020 and beyond, the goal is to find an official way to build multilingual websites. Until now, this was considered to be plugin territory, but what is needed to make WordPress a true polyglot? In this talk I cover the status quo of multilingual WordPress websites and share ideas — both from a technical and a user’s perspective — on how WordPress could evolve in this area over the next few years.

Pascal Birchler

June 22, 2019
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  1. On Multilingual
    WordPress Sites
    WordCamp Europe 2019

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  2. Pascal Birchler

    @swissspidy

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  3. Foreword

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  4. Gutenberg
    Phase 4

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  5. 2020
    (or later)

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  6. Everybody else
    already is
    multilingual

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  7. WordPress
    already is
    multilingual

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  8. WordPress
    Internationalization

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  9. Internationalization
    Version 1.2 (2004)

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  10. 100+ Locales

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  12. User Language

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  13. Multilingual Websites?
    Plugin Territory™

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  14. Previous Efforts

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  18. Multilingual WordPress
    in an ideal world

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  19. Posts

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  20. Terms

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  21. Media

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  22. Blocks

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  23. Permalinks

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  24. Performance

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  25. Usability

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  26. API

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  27. Connecting the Dots

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  28. Status Quo

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  36. Custom WordPress Functionality
    Automatic Manual

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  37. Multilingual WordPress
    realistically

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  38. one-size-fits-all

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  39. Backward Compatibility

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  40. Extensibility

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  41. The Next Steps

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  42. 2020
    (or later)

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  43. Multisite?

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  44. Get Involved!

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  45. make.wordpress.org

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  46. Thanks for joining!

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