My client intends to use a separate German language site on a separate domain, instead of the German language translation of the existing metalwolf.hu
My question is that what is the recommended workflow for that? I can make a copy of the existing site and őoint the new domain to this copied site, but how can make the German language of the site to be the default language?
Thanks for your help
1. First remove all EN content making sure that you do **NOT** have the following setting enabled:
WPML > Settings > Posts and pages synchronization > When deleting a post, delete translations as well
and
WPML > Settings > Posts and pages synchronization > When deleting a taxonomy (category, tag or custom), delete translations as well
By content this includes:
- taxonomies
- post types
- menus
- Media libraries
2. Then, before deleting our plugins, set the default language to be DE and "deactivate" the EN language. Do a thorough checking of your site.
Is everything appearing in the DE language as you expect it to?
Recall that your theme/plugin strings may not appear translated if/when you remove our plugins. (Were you even intending to remove the plugins after deleting the EN content?)
3. If you are planning to remove the plugins, I would first do ANOTHER thorough check by simply deactivating the plugins and verfiying that you 3rd party plugins are still behaving as you expect (e.g. you might need to download language files from the plugin support site).
Once you are sure everything works well, then remove our plugins.
AND IMPORTANT - always have a backup you can restore in case something unexpected happens.
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