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.

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1. On Multilingual WordPress Sites WordCamp Europe 2019
2. Pascal Birchler
 @swissspidy
3. Foreword
4. Gutenberg Phase 4
5. 2020 (or later)
6. Everybody else already is multilingual
7. WordPress already is multilingual
8. WordPress Internationalization
9. Internationalization Version 1.2 (2004)
10. 100+ Locales
12. User Language
13. Multilingual Websites? Plugin Territory™
14. Previous Efforts
18. Multilingual WordPress in an ideal world
19. Posts
20. Terms
21. Media
22. Blocks
23. Permalinks
24. Performance
25. Usability
26. API
27. Connecting the Dots
28. Status Quo
36. Custom WordPress Functionality Automatic Manual
37. Multilingual WordPress realistically
38. one-size-fits-all
39. Backward Compatibility
40. Extensibility
41. The Next Steps
42. 2020 (or later)
43. Multisite?
44. Get Involved!
45. make.wordpress.org
46. Thanks for joining!