Migration Tips How to Make a Multilingual WordPress Website

How to Make a Multilingual WordPress Website? [Detailed
Overview]
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The major goal of any website is to reach the target audience. Or to put it another way, the sites need to be seen,
visited and engaged. To make it so, there is the need to speak the language the readers do. We shouldn’t forget
that despite the fact that modern informational technologies are usually based on English, there are millions of
people who don’t speak English (or at least not as their first language). Thus, at some point you may find that you
want to offer more than one language on your WordPress site.
By default, WordPress is not a multi-lingual platform. It was not designed to offer a simple solution for building
multilingual sites. But good news is that there are some methods to translate your WordPress website:
WordPress multilingual plugins;
WordPress theme with integrated multilingual system.
Multilingual WordPress Plugins
There are some WordPress multilingual plugins which can help you translate your site. Here is a brief review of
those plugins.
WPML
WPML plugin will enable you to manage your multilingual posts per language. It will translate all your pages,
posts, menus, custom types, taxonomy, etc. into 40 languages. Besides that, you are able to add your own
language variant. With WPML there is no need to edit PO files and upload MO files, you can translate theme and
plugin texts directly from within WordPress Admin panel.
This WordPress Multilingual plugin provides you with a language switcher widget which can be placed in any
widget area without any coding usage. Language options can be displayed as flags or as text. This is a premium
plugin which comes with several purchase opportunities: Multilingual blog for $29/year; Multilingual CMS for
$79/year and Multilingual CMS Lifetime for $195.
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