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WPML includes multilingual and navigation function. Each of them is activated independently. To access them, log in to WordPress and click on the WPML menu.

To activate all of WPML’s features, click on Advanced at the top of the page, which in the WPML menu.

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Translating your contents »

Once you’ve configured the site’s languages, you can start translating existing contents and create new contents in different languages.

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Multilingual Themes »

WPML runs fine on any WordPress theme.

This includes:

  • Multilingual navigation
  • Automatically adjust the home page to point to the right language
  • Translation for texts in custom fields (like SEO meta data)

To create a multilingual WordPress site, install your favorite theme and enable WPML.

After you’re done adding languages using WPML go to WPML->Languages and add language switchers to your site.

You can include a language switcher as a sidebar widget, a footer or build your own.Continue reading

Developers information »

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Building a multilingual website with WPML?

Multilingual-ready theme framework Custom theme from scratch

WPML includes built in support for popular theme frameworks.

Your website will be fully multilingual without having to modify anything.

Check out WPML’s compatibility packages to see which themes are supported.

Start with the guide for building custom multilingual themes.

You can also use WPML’s CMS navigation to create drop-down menus, a breadcrumbs trail and context-sensitive sidebar navigation.

The CSS generator will help style the drop-down menus easily.

Want to know WPML better?

If you’re developing plugins, themes or tools that need to work with WPML, have a look at WPML’s table structure and WPML’s programming API.

Bug hunting

We do our very best so that WPML works on every WordPress installation. However, we cannot test every combination of hosting environment, database and other plugins.

If WPML doesn’t work correctly for you, go to our technical support forum, search for a similar problem and see if there’s a solution.

You can also run the plugin in debug mode. This will display errors and warnings on the screen, so that you can to our developers. Getting complete debug information will help us find the exact solution for your problem.Continue reading

Other WordPress plugins »

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WPML didn’t quite start as WPML. It started as a few separate plugins, which later merged and became one.

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