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How to Create Different Designs per Language

Tomer Helzer
Updated
October 24, 2025

Learn how to show different page designs in each language with WPML, starting with a blank draft or a duplicate of your original content.

Creating different designs in each language can help personalize your content for different audiences. For example, here’s a page in English and French with different designs:

Page in English
Page in English
Page in French
Page in French

Creating Different Designs per Language

WPML offers two ways to create a different design in each language:

  • Start from scratch – design your page starting with a blank draft.
  • Start from original – design your page starting with a duplicate of your original content.

Create Different Designs From Scratch

To create a different design in another language from scratch:

  1. In your WordPress admin, go to the screen with the content you want to redesign (e.g., Pages)
  2. Locate your content and click the Edit link.
  3. Under Translate this Document in the right sidebar, switch to the WordPress Editor tab (icon looks like WordPress).
Switching to the WordPress Editor tab
Switching to the WordPress Editor tab
  1. In the pop-up that appears, select the Only this page option and click the Apply button.
  2. In the new table that appears under Translate this Document, click the Plus icon next to the language you want to redesign from scratch. A blank draft will appear.
Languages table under Translate this Document
Languages table under Translate this Document
  1. Add your new design and click Publish. Your page will now appear with different designs when switching languages.

Create Different Designs From Original

To create a different design in another language, starting from your original content: 

  1. Edit the content you want to redesign and switch to the WordPress Editor tab. 
  2. In the table under Translate this Document, check the box next to the language you want to redesign and click the Duplicate button.
Selecting to duplicate the original content into German
Selecting to duplicate the original content into German
  1. Next, click the Pencil icon in the new container that appears under Translations. This will open your duplicate draft with the original content.
Clicking the pencil icon
Clicking the pencil icon
  1. Add your new design and click Save. Your page will now appear with different designs when switching languages.