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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.