Hi, we would like to know best practices for setting the URL structure. For example
So for example in the future we might want to have a URL where we offer hidden link
Visitor language: English
Visitor country: Australia
Product: product1
Subproduct: subproductA
Microproduct: sub-subproductb
hidden link
Visitor language: English
Visitor country: Japan
Product: product1
Subproduct: subproductA
Microproduct: sub-subproductb
hidden link
Visitor language: Japanese
Visitor country: Japan
Product: product1
Subproduct: subproductA
Microproduct: sub-subproductb
I hope above is clear for our idea for long term URL structure. What is suggested when we have no visitor country webpage content? Should we create a placeholder for each country (lot of work) or should we create a default page for no visitor country?
hidden link
Visitor language: English
Visitor country: All
Product: product1
Subproduct: subproductA
Microproduct: sub-subproductb
hidden link
Visitor language: Japanese
Visitor country: All
Product: product1
Subproduct: subproductA
Microproduct: sub-subproductb
Is this all clear? If I am being stupid and this is over complicated, please tell me.
About the other examples, you do not need to set the directories as you mentioned. By default, you will have hidden link for all visitors accessing the English version.
Remembering that you can add custom English languages, but it is not necessary to add one for each active language on the site.
1. setup on default approach where we DO NOT set default without any custom languages hidden link
2. in future if we have custom content to show to english speaking visitors whose IP address is located china, we would then create hidden link
where this custom language content would only be shown to Chinese IP address visitors
Do you suggest a particular tool to serve IP address specific content for particular visitors that works well with WPML?
Languages: English (English )Portuguese (Brazil) (Português )
Timezone: America/Sao_Paulo (GMT-03:00)
Hey there,
Thanks for your response.
I'm afraid that the approach of creating several English custom languages for each idiom present on the website is not a practice that we recommend. Moreover, about the IP redirection, WPML currently offers only the option to do an automatic browser language redirect which essentially detects the visitor's browser language and then if that language exists in your site it redirects them to it.
The downfall with this is that it's based on the visitor's browser language rather than their location. At the moment Geolocation is only possible with custom coding which does fall beyond the scope of our support but perhaps I can point you in the right direction:
