Multilingual WordPress – How to make your WordPress site multilingual

With Matt Smith in the track

This session will provide a detailed overview on how to get your WordPress site multilingual ready. We will discuss the types of multilingual plugins and how they compare, auditing your site for multilingual readiness, preparing for multilingual content, considerations for plugins and themes, and finally options on how to leverage service providers for additional multilingual automation.

The intended audience includes people that needs to know what to do to make Worpress sites multilingual OR plugin developers and themers that need to learn how to make their plugins or themes multilingual ready.

Learning Outcomes

  • Compare plugin options to install that enable multilingual functionality
  • Ensure your themes, plugins, and content are multilingual ready (internationalized)
  • Translate a theme or plugin into a new language
  • Send content to a translation services provider when needed
  • Use typical workflow for translating posts, pages, menus, and other types of content
  • Understand typical translation and editorial workflows
  • Leverage machine, professional, and community translation