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How to make a multi-lingual site with WordPress and WPML plugin

By on February 24, 2015 in Randy Roedl

Download multi-lingual plugin: http://robcubbon.com/go/wpml I’m using a Genesis child theme in the video. http://robcubbon.com/go/genesis (affiliate link). W…

23 Responses to How to make a multi-lingual site with WordPress and WPML plugin

  1. pennylanewebdesign September 22, 2012 at 8:22 am #

    Thank you Rob!

  2. Rob Cubbon May 9, 2013 at 6:49 pm #

    How did you create the menus? Did you do it through the WordPress
    Appearance > Menu ? Or coded in the theme? If you click “Show more” under
    the video and click the link through to my site where there’s an article
    about WPML – it shows you how to code into the theme different HTML by
    identifying the different languages with PHP.

  3. jesus-in-myheart May 9, 2013 at 6:52 pm #

    So, as it stands I don’t see the spanish pages in my menu. How do I add it
    and connect them?

  4. Rob Cubbon May 9, 2013 at 7:15 pm #

    If you look underneath the video to the bottom link – I have added the page
    where it explains how to do this.

  5. jesus-in-myheart May 9, 2013 at 7:32 pm #

    Great, thanks. The only thing now is that even though I have uncheck the
    add translation to footer, it’s still adding it. Also, I am trying to hard
    code the adding the drop-down language menu (which is not dropping down at
    all) to somewhere around the navigation at the top of the page. For some
    reason, the Language switcher widget only gives me the option to add it to
    either the footer or the sidebar and I want it at the top of the page. Once
    again, thanks a lot for your help.

  6. Lotte Thori Løvstad August 26, 2013 at 1:27 pm #

    Is it possible to translate the menues?

  7. Agriya Ahsan September 30, 2013 at 12:52 pm #

    WordPress is an amazing CMS which has exceptional multi-language
    capabilities. By using MO and PO files you can easily change the language
    of your website. This feature will help you to focus your target audience
    easily.

  8. Guus Bierkens October 9, 2013 at 12:20 pm #

    By my plugin doesn’t work in my home page

  9. Fung Edward December 27, 2013 at 7:33 am #

    Hi Rob, does it work in home page. As I saw some of the comments made on
    Youtube saying it doesnt work with Home page. do you have demonstrations
    video on youtube? I would love to purchase this if it works for the home
    page, thanks. yet i am currently using wp 3.5.1, would the wpml plugin also
    work in the latest version,wp3.8?
    thanks

  10. Kwok Cliff January 4, 2014 at 4:37 am #

    Rob, you make things really easy to understand, I have no alternative, but
    forced to give you a thumb up!

  11. Crunchy289 January 29, 2014 at 6:50 am #

    Thanks alot for this tuto. my question is, how good is the translation,
    will the user be able to read that it’s an automated translation?
    Thanks

  12. f willis February 4, 2014 at 4:41 am #

    can you send post the website link for to purchase or download. thankyou

  13. galaad louis joffre Camara March 6, 2014 at 12:08 pm #

    How we translate the menu and widgets ?

  14. Euphoria feri March 10, 2014 at 1:38 am #

    Very helpfulvideo…Thank you!

  15. GermanKickboxer August 7, 2014 at 10:31 pm #

    Thanks for showing us a live demonstration of how the end result looks like.

    1. Did you have to add any language files? You know most of the other
    plugins require you to manually add .po and .mo files.

    2. Which of the WPML packages did you buy?

    3. Does it also allow to translate the WordPress site or is it only for
    posts

    4. What did you use to translate the text into chinese?

  16. Bang Doan August 15, 2014 at 9:24 am #

    Why i can’t see vietnamese languange.Something wrong ?

  17. Charles Goyette September 5, 2014 at 2:02 pm #

    I was wondering where did you copy/past your chinese ? Did you get the
    translation from google, or was it done with WPML?

  18. Denica Dimitrova September 8, 2014 at 12:12 pm #

    Hi, I can’t find the exact WPML plug-in to install it. There are many
    additional plug-ins to it, but this exact one I find only in free surch in
    internet and it’s not free. Can you help me?

  19. OKELLO DENISH December 9, 2014 at 8:14 am #

    Thanks for the greate post
    It helped me alot

  20. LL M. December 22, 2014 at 9:54 pm #

    Very helpful video tutorial, thanks a lot. I’m getting started with WPML, I
    hope I won’t get too mixed up :)

  21. Joy Marre December 25, 2014 at 12:46 pm #

    I love this tutorial. Is so useful. Please may i ask, if you can help me to
    install the multi-language in my website.
    Thank you

  22. Marko Matijasevic January 13, 2015 at 6:46 pm #

    Thank you Rob! Short, precise and to the point tutorial. From now I’m
    subscribed. Cheers! :)

  23. Alex Black January 29, 2015 at 2:30 am #

    Hi Rob. I was wondering if it is possible to have a site who’s default
    language is English but you might create a blog post that is in Chinese
    only, and is only displayed on the Chinese site?

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