Tutorials

This tutorial shows how to translate your theme using WPML’s built-in translation interface. It works without any .mo files and you can edit translations from within WPML directly.
The video (3 minutes)

In this is guest post, Michael Wassmer explains how to build a multilingual product catalog using WordPress.
The idea for this post came from a discussion in the forum about sharing custom fields and media between translations.
The goal -  a multilingual product catalog with WordPress
To set up my small bilingual shop I didn’t want to use [...]

How can we do a major update for a live WordPress site, while it’s already running?
WPML is getting a major usability overhaul (by Joen Asmussen). This includes the WPML plugin and wpml.org. We’re going to do vast website changes, including theme edits, changes to page hierarchy and the addition of new pages.
These changes can’t be [...]

Fancy links are great, but they generate huge URLs. These cause problems when you want to send links to others via email, instant message or Twitter.
I’ll show a solution that doesn’t require any plugin, doesn’t go through an external service and doesn’t create any load on your site.
WordPress has default link aliases to every page
Let’s [...]

I’m going to show how to use Atahualpa, by Bytes For All, for building multilingual WordPress sites using WPML.
A theme for a multilingual WordPress site needs to have all strings wrapped in gettext calls, but it’s not quite enough. Using gettext in the theme allows it to display in a different (single) language from what [...]

To run a truly multilingual site your theme must be multilingual as well. Instead of repeating our textbook explanation of how to build a multilingual WordPress theme, we’re going to go over a live example.
We’ll go over the theme used for nadelspiel.com, a German site about hand made needle sewing.
Things that need to change to [...]

This post is a real treat. Joen Asmussen is a usability testing expert. Normally, he writes reviews for companies such as LEGO. To help out with WPML, he donated a review for our plugin as well.
This review goes through all of WPML’s options (current to version 0.98), tears them apart and gives constructive criticism about [...]

When you set up a multilingual WordPress site using WPML you can choose to have different languages in different domains, in sub-domains or in language folders. This article will explain where each of these options should be used. This isn’t a technical question, but rather depends on what you’re trying to achieve.
To answer this, we [...]

WPML creates top navigation with drop down menus, a breadcrumbs trail and sidebar navigation. In this post, I’ll talk a bit about how to use and style them. We’ll use our own theme (used for WPML.org) as an example.
Styling WPML navigation
To apply your styling to the navigational elements, you need to override the CSS statements [...]

I just had the pleasure of migrating this website from one WordPress install to the other. At first, I searched for advice on how to do this, leading me in weird directions (mostly revolving around mysql dumps).
It turns out this procedure can be much simpler than anticipated, given you’re doing things in their correct order. [...]