That was an example of a URL that can exist theoretically. Sinces the name of our Spqnish features page is characteristicas, es/features doesn’t exist on our site.
You can use any language that you want with WPML. There are around 40 pre-configured languages, including Vietnamese. If you need to add languages that are not pre-configured, you can do so in WPML->Edit languages.
Hi. I wanted to know if google picks up the different languages? I’m asking for SEO purposes as I have a site in Costa Rica and cater mostly to North American’s but working on getting more in the Costa Rica market for spanish search terms and was wondering if this would help with my SEO for spanish search terms. Thanks
Google will most certainly index the new languages. Then, it will naturally send traffic to pages in the right languages. WPML sets the language headers correctly, and so search engines can tell what’s the language of each page.
Having human-translated content in different language should have quick and noticeable results on your site’s search ranking.
does the CMS version include licence for commercial use?
Also – Will it be possible to install the plugin on both sandbox installation and production installation at the same time without purchasing two licences?
WPML is intended for commercial use. If you’re a web developer, you can install it on your client sites. You need to pay for WPML once and you can use it on as many sites as you need.
Hi Amir
Is it possible to upgrade from Blog to CMS at a later date?
And just to clarify… Can I build manually translated wordpress menus? Is there a limitation on how many menus? I will be using several simple wordpress menus via the built in menu widget? Is this feature in the Blog version or only the CMS?
And lastly do you offer a combo price with the Views plugin?
Yes. You can upgrade and pay only the difference. Sorry, but we don’t have a combo price for WPML and Views. I hope that you will enjoy knowing that we spend a huge amount of resources on Types, Views and WPML compatibility. I hope that this is even better than a combo price. Lots of folks build market with discounts.
We prefer to keep uniform pricing and put our efforts into solid products. We’ve learned that in the long run, this is better.
Perhaps this is more of a feature request but wasn’t sure were to send that. Anyway, looking for a way to do Region Specific Content + Languages . Aka Content specific to NA / English + Content & content specific to Europe / Spanish & content specific to LA + Spanish as an example. I know your plugin does languages but have you thought of also supporting Different Region specific content as well?
You can do this by creating custom languages. Go to WPML->Edit languages. There, you can create something like ‘LA Spanish’ and consider WPML’s default Spanish as European Spanish.
I’m sure you’re aware that within Latin America, Spanish is not exactly uniform too, but I’ll leave this up to you to wrestle with 😉
I have country code top-level domains (ccTLD) that I will need to redirect to the language directory as shown above, will this be possible to do in cPanel, without causing issues with WPML?
This seems to be the easiest configuration, as we do not need separate content for each site, but own the ccTLDs. Thanks for any help you can provide.
You should be able to redirect URLs, but I don’t recommend doing that. If you want to arrange languages in different domains, you can do this directly with WPML, without this redirect. Have a look here for how to set it up: http://wpml.org/faq/server-setting-for-languages-in-different-domains/
I’m not 100% sure about cPanel terminology. Want to ask your hosting company which option is right for putting several domains on the same physical directory in Apache?
First let me say that you are very prompt and helpful and I love your support!
We are going to use the .eu domain, since another company bought the .co.uk we needed. Our main site is .com, we also own .ca, and want .eu. I want to translate all 3 sites accordingly:
.com – main WordPress installation in US English
.ca – Canadian English & French translation as subdomains or directories
.eu – EU member states WPML translation as subdomains or directories
Is this possible with WPML? If so, what is the best plan for setting this up? Will I need multisite with domain mapping, or multi-network capabilities (networks in a main network). Thanks for any help you can provide.
Right now, we don’t have a mode that lets you combine languages in directories and domains. We’re planning to add it in the future, but I don’t have schedule for it.
If you want to use either modes, you don’t need domain mapping, or multisite or anything like that. You’ll create just one WordPress site, with WPML, and install all languages on it. For server setup for languages in domains, have a look here: http://wpml.org/faq/server-setting-for-languages-in-different-domains/
I will be serving different content to different countries, so I believe I will need multisite. We are going to use a slightly different ccTLD co.uk URL vs the .eu gTLD to roll-out multilanguage in an organic multi-regional configuration. Thanks again for the help.
Hi, what is “CMS Navigation” I’m trying to decide if I need the $79 version or not…
we do all our own translation, but I’d hoped to use WP built in navigation in our theme instead of hard-coding menu items…
Most people get the ‘Multilingual CMS’ package. If you’re running a simple blog, with mainly blog posts, the ‘Multilingual Blog’ might be good enough for you.
WordPress has removed a number of calls that were used in previous versions. I’m really not sure about your theme and I recommend that you use the recent WordPress version and themes that are compatible with it.
How are updates to pages handled (IE: if only a sentence has changed, how is that handled). Also, how are document attachments handled such as pdf files. Is the software capable of keeping track of copies of these in the various languages, and, can these also be submitted into the queue for translation, either by our internal users or by the professional translators. Thanks!
Translations are essentially different pages/posts, so they can contain their own attachments too. You can upload different PDF files to different languages.
Thanks for mentioning Arabic, because I need this plugin specifically for Arabic and Hebrew. However, does it solve for the peculiar way that these right-to-left languages function in WordPress editing window?
I compose my Arabic pages in a text editor and copy and paste them into WordPress editing windows, and I find that formatting the pages is nearly impossible, and that WordPress is throwing my punctuation and enumeration all over the place.
This shouldn’t happen if you use the WordPress translation files AND set the admin language to Arabic while editing. You can do that easily with WPML.
1. Download the Arabic translation for WordPress. Today, you need to do this manually, by downloading that .mo file and putting it in your ‘languages’ directory.
2. Set the admin language the same as the editing language. We’ve added that to WPML specifically for the problems that you’re mentioning. This will sort everything and make the Arabic and Hebrew editing normal again.
I have three personal website, based on WPML. And one of them, I am considering to change its theme, maybe next month.
So may I use the purchased WPML in all my three sites, I can show evidence they all belong to me and my own company (I own hospital). And may I use WPML in my new theme later? Thanks.
Hello,
I’m using WPML for my professionnal blog and I want to ask some questions because I didn’t find any answer about it.
1. My blog is in French and English: so I selected the option “Afficher les liens de traduction des messages dans d’autres langues” (menu WPML/Options du sélecteur de langue/) and like this, each visitor can switch from french to english or english to french to read the article.
But I can’t put a different message according the language.
Example : for article in French, I want add a message before the text in the article like “This article is also in English”. And when you click on it you get the article in English. I would like get the same thing on the English interface: if I prefer read the article in French, i can click on : “cet article est aussi disponible en français”. I would like choose the possibility to display this little text in english or in french according the interface language.
Have you a solution for that? How can I manage the language of this text?
2. I would like add a blog’s description in French and in English for optimizing my wordpress blog for search engines. I know it exist WordPress SEO by Yoast but I can’t have one description for each language. I can only add a description in French or in English. I would prefer a description field for each language of my blog. Maybe it exist a solution with WPML plugin ? In this case, it will be very useful!
For a Multisite install what user level can manage the plugin. When I create sites for clients I usually give them editor rights, would this suffice to manage there content translations with your plugin.
We are interested in purchasing your plugin but there is a question….
Does your extension allow complete SEO in terms of every language getting its own URL, meta, description, page title …you know… SEO stuff 😉 and similar
Normally, yes. Most themes will store their SEO information in custom fields. Since each post has its own custom fields, it will also have its own meta attributes. If you’re shopping for an SEO plugin, I recommend you look at ‘WordPress SEO’, by Yoast, which runs smooth with WPML.
The upcoming version of AIOSEOP also has good support for WPML, but it’s not released yet.
Can you provide me with a list of webstite with WPML plugins setup for 5 languages ?
Is there any particular things for 5 languages (compare to 2 languges) to care when building the website?
We don’t really track client websites. The number of languages that you use in the site doesn’t matter to WPML. You can have a site with any number of languages.
It depends on how this form is generated. If it’s something in your theme’s code, it should be easy to translate. If another plugin is generating it, we can work together with the other author to check how it works on multilingual sites.
After you buy WPML, you can use it on unlimited sites. We ask for 50% payment again next year, to continue receiving upgrades and support from us. If you don’t renew, what you downloaded will continue working normally, but you will not be able to download newer versions.
We are starting development on a simple multi language site (likely 4 to start). It will be a custom developed theme. Will WPML work for us? We are evaluating multi language support options now.
Yes. You can certainly display a different image per language. This will depend on your theme and will probably require some tiny edit to the theme header file.
When you translate posts and pages, you actually create new posts/pages. This means that they can have different images.
Hi there,
I am extremely interested in your plugin but just need to clarify something before the investment.
I am making my website multilingual for german and english…this I can easily do with a number of plugins…BUT the important thing that none of these seem to offer is support for multilingual galleries.
I use standard WP galleries with FancyBox and have captions/descriptions for most pictures…can your media translation add-on for WPML also provide for multiple languages for the captions/descriptions. As I read the information on your site, it seems that this add-on provides for “references” to gallery media in translated gallery posts, but can I then have different caption/description translations?
Thanks for your help.
1. All mobile traffic to m.domain.com/{user-language}/
2. All desktop traffic to {user-language}.domain.com
Also, moving forward I would suggest that you create an actual contact page for questions. If major companies like Facebook and Google, and relatively small and new companies, have contact pages to communicate directly to them, why should you be any less professional?
When you use languages in directories, WPML checks only the path and not the domain. So, if you have a different subdomain for mobile access, the paths inside it should work the same. I guess that you already know how to setup the mobile subdomain in the DNS and in Apache. WPML should be indifferent to that.
You’re right. Google and Facebook have wonderful contact pages. Do they also reply?
Facebook prefer to email but they can call you if you ask them. Google prefer to call and will email if you miss their call. Both respond within 24 hours.
You can include all these languages in your site with WPML. Please note that WPML doesn’t do any translation. It’s a tool that lets you translate yourself. Have a look here for different ways to translate with WPML: http://wpml.org/documentation/translating-your-contents/
Amir, thanks for your reply. Besides translating content in pages and posts, I also need to translate menu items, sidebars, categories, product names etc. So, the whole website has to change in the target language. Will WPML be able to do that, too?
We are using WP e-commerce version 3.8.8.5, WP e-Commerce Dynamic Gallery LITE, W3 Total cache, Cyclone Slider, MapPress.
The purpose is that a website that is totally in English, i.e. content and UI have to be translated into Thai, Indonesian (Malay is pretty similar and not urgent for that reason), Burmese, Cambodian, Vietnamese and Chinese (various versions of it).
For now I changed some text parts in the various php templates, but that could turn out to be very time consuming for the future.
The posts and content I understand would be no problem. But the next step is the UI on the websites.
Hope it is clear enough to form an idea about what I’m looking for?
BTW, the translations we can do ourselves with SDL Trados Studio.
WPML has some compatibility problems with WP e-commerce plugin. These are complex things that neither us or WPEC team managed to resolve.
We’re recommending clients to try WooCommerce. It’s very stable and works fine with WPML. WooCommerce developers are actively working with us to resolve any issue that comes up. I’m not sure how this suites your project requirements, but it’s working fine for us.
Well, what about all the work we have put into configuring WP e-Commerce and other plugins to get our sites running? I’ve tried WoCommerce shortly, but was not impressed at all.
http://wpml.org/es/features/ doesnt work, it switches back to english. are you sure about this? i need to be sure before i purchase
That was an example of a URL that can exist theoretically. Sinces the name of our Spqnish features page is characteristicas, es/features doesn’t exist on our site.
I don’t see a list of supported languages on your website. Specifically, do you support Vietnamese?
You can use any language that you want with WPML. There are around 40 pre-configured languages, including Vietnamese. If you need to add languages that are not pre-configured, you can do so in WPML->Edit languages.
Hi. I wanted to know if google picks up the different languages? I’m asking for SEO purposes as I have a site in Costa Rica and cater mostly to North American’s but working on getting more in the Costa Rica market for spanish search terms and was wondering if this would help with my SEO for spanish search terms. Thanks
Google will most certainly index the new languages. Then, it will naturally send traffic to pages in the right languages. WPML sets the language headers correctly, and so search engines can tell what’s the language of each page.
Having human-translated content in different language should have quick and noticeable results on your site’s search ranking.
Hi team
does the CMS version include licence for commercial use?
Also – Will it be possible to install the plugin on both sandbox installation and production installation at the same time without purchasing two licences?
Thanks in advance!
WPML is intended for commercial use. If you’re a web developer, you can install it on your client sites. You need to pay for WPML once and you can use it on as many sites as you need.
Hi Amir
Is it possible to upgrade from Blog to CMS at a later date?
And just to clarify… Can I build manually translated wordpress menus? Is there a limitation on how many menus? I will be using several simple wordpress menus via the built in menu widget? Is this feature in the Blog version or only the CMS?
And lastly do you offer a combo price with the Views plugin?
Cheers
Mike
Yes. You can upgrade and pay only the difference. Sorry, but we don’t have a combo price for WPML and Views. I hope that you will enjoy knowing that we spend a huge amount of resources on Types, Views and WPML compatibility. I hope that this is even better than a combo price. Lots of folks build market with discounts.
We prefer to keep uniform pricing and put our efforts into solid products. We’ve learned that in the long run, this is better.
Perhaps this is more of a feature request but wasn’t sure were to send that. Anyway, looking for a way to do Region Specific Content + Languages . Aka Content specific to NA / English + Content & content specific to Europe / Spanish & content specific to LA + Spanish as an example. I know your plugin does languages but have you thought of also supporting Different Region specific content as well?
Thanks
You can do this by creating custom languages. Go to WPML->Edit languages. There, you can create something like ‘LA Spanish’ and consider WPML’s default Spanish as European Spanish.
I’m sure you’re aware that within Latin America, Spanish is not exactly uniform too, but I’ll leave this up to you to wrestle with 😉
Hello!
Does the Multilingual Blog support string translations from .po files that I create myself?
Yes. Your theme and plugins will load .mo files normally. WPML sets the locale correctly, so that all .mo files are loaded with the correct language.
Thanks! That’s great news!
Hello,
I want to use the directory structure option for language translation:
http://www.example.com
http://www.example.com/ca/
http://www.example.com/uk/
I have country code top-level domains (ccTLD) that I will need to redirect to the language directory as shown above, will this be possible to do in cPanel, without causing issues with WPML?
This seems to be the easiest configuration, as we do not need separate content for each site, but own the ccTLDs. Thanks for any help you can provide.
~C
You should be able to redirect URLs, but I don’t recommend doing that. If you want to arrange languages in different domains, you can do this directly with WPML, without this redirect. Have a look here for how to set it up:
http://wpml.org/faq/server-setting-for-languages-in-different-domains/
Hi Amir,
That makes sense. In cPanel do I add these as parked add-on domains? Or, is there a different way to handle this? Thanks for the quick help!
~C
I’m not 100% sure about cPanel terminology. Want to ask your hosting company which option is right for putting several domains on the same physical directory in Apache?
Hello again Amir,
First let me say that you are very prompt and helpful and I love your support!
We are going to use the .eu domain, since another company bought the .co.uk we needed. Our main site is .com, we also own .ca, and want .eu. I want to translate all 3 sites accordingly:
.com – main WordPress installation in US English
.ca – Canadian English & French translation as subdomains or directories
.eu – EU member states WPML translation as subdomains or directories
Is this possible with WPML? If so, what is the best plan for setting this up? Will I need multisite with domain mapping, or multi-network capabilities (networks in a main network). Thanks for any help you can provide.
~C
Right now, we don’t have a mode that lets you combine languages in directories and domains. We’re planning to add it in the future, but I don’t have schedule for it.
If you want to use either modes, you don’t need domain mapping, or multisite or anything like that. You’ll create just one WordPress site, with WPML, and install all languages on it. For server setup for languages in domains, have a look here:
http://wpml.org/faq/server-setting-for-languages-in-different-domains/
Thanks Amir!
I will be serving different content to different countries, so I believe I will need multisite. We are going to use a slightly different ccTLD co.uk URL vs the .eu gTLD to roll-out multilanguage in an organic multi-regional configuration. Thanks again for the help.
~C
Hi, what is “CMS Navigation” I’m trying to decide if I need the $79 version or not…
we do all our own translation, but I’d hoped to use WP built in navigation in our theme instead of hard-coding menu items…
You should use the standard WordPress menu system. This is translatable without WPML’s CMS Navigation. Our CMS Navigation module lets you add additional navigation items. You can read about it here:
http://wpml.org/documentation/getting-started-guide/site-navigation/
Even if you’re doing your own translations, you’ll probably enjoy using WPML’s Translation Management module and the String Translation module. Have a look here for how to translate with WPML’s Translation Editor:
http://wpml.org/documentation/translating-your-contents/using-the-translation-editor/
Most people get the ‘Multilingual CMS’ package. If you’re running a simple blog, with mainly blog posts, the ‘Multilingual Blog’ might be good enough for you.
If i install old (wordpress 2.9) theme on new wordpress 3.4 and use your plugin, will it work normally?
WordPress has removed a number of calls that were used in previous versions. I’m really not sure about your theme and I recommend that you use the recent WordPress version and themes that are compatible with it.
How are updates to pages handled (IE: if only a sentence has changed, how is that handled). Also, how are document attachments handled such as pdf files. Is the software capable of keeping track of copies of these in the various languages, and, can these also be submitted into the queue for translation, either by our internal users or by the professional translators. Thanks!
Please have a look here for different ways to translate with WPML:
http://wpml.org/documentation/translating-your-contents/
If you have a team of translators, you can use WPML’s Translation Management module. It will detect what’s changed in the text, and will show you what needs translation. It’s explained here:
http://wpml.org/documentation/translating-your-contents/using-the-translation-editor/
Translations are essentially different pages/posts, so they can contain their own attachments too. You can upload different PDF files to different languages.
SVP, je peux avoir une liste complète des langues disponible sure le plugin Multilingue CMS ???
You can use any language with WPML. There are over 40 pre-configured languages and you can always add your own.
je veux savoir si se plugin contient l’arabe ,?
Yes. Arabic is included.
Hello Amir,
Thanks for mentioning Arabic, because I need this plugin specifically for Arabic and Hebrew. However, does it solve for the peculiar way that these right-to-left languages function in WordPress editing window?
I compose my Arabic pages in a text editor and copy and paste them into WordPress editing windows, and I find that formatting the pages is nearly impossible, and that WordPress is throwing my punctuation and enumeration all over the place.
Does this plugin help solve this?
Many thanks for your help!
Tom Nimen
This shouldn’t happen if you use the WordPress translation files AND set the admin language to Arabic while editing. You can do that easily with WPML.
1. Download the Arabic translation for WordPress. Today, you need to do this manually, by downloading that .mo file and putting it in your ‘languages’ directory.
2. Set the admin language the same as the editing language. We’ve added that to WPML specifically for the problems that you’re mentioning. This will sort everything and make the Arabic and Hebrew editing normal again.
Thanks for this, Amir. This is just what I was looking for.
Tom
I have three personal website, based on WPML. And one of them, I am considering to change its theme, maybe next month.
So may I use the purchased WPML in all my three sites, I can show evidence they all belong to me and my own company (I own hospital). And may I use WPML in my new theme later? Thanks.
Thank you for asking first. You can use WPML on all your sites.
Hello,
I’m using WPML for my professionnal blog and I want to ask some questions because I didn’t find any answer about it.
1. My blog is in French and English: so I selected the option “Afficher les liens de traduction des messages dans d’autres langues” (menu WPML/Options du sélecteur de langue/) and like this, each visitor can switch from french to english or english to french to read the article.
But I can’t put a different message according the language.
Example : for article in French, I want add a message before the text in the article like “This article is also in English”. And when you click on it you get the article in English. I would like get the same thing on the English interface: if I prefer read the article in French, i can click on : “cet article est aussi disponible en français”. I would like choose the possibility to display this little text in english or in french according the interface language.
Have you a solution for that? How can I manage the language of this text?
2. I would like add a blog’s description in French and in English for optimizing my wordpress blog for search engines. I know it exist WordPress SEO by Yoast but I can’t have one description for each language. I can only add a description in French or in English. I would prefer a description field for each language of my blog. Maybe it exist a solution with WPML plugin ? In this case, it will be very useful!
Thanks a lot in advance for your answer.
1. I suggest that you create a custom language switcher. Then, you can include any text that you want and translate it. Have a look here:
http://wpml.org/documentation/getting-started-guide/language-setup/custom-language-switcher/
2. You should enter the description in the default language in the SEO plugin and translate it in WPML’s String Translation screen.
For more help, please use our technical forum. The support folks will be able to help you a lot faster than in this pre-sales page.
Thanks Amir for your answers, but I need more help for the first one question.
Could you give me the URL for the WPML technical forum ?
Thanks
This is our support forum:
http://wpml.org/forums/forum/english-support/
For a Multisite install what user level can manage the plugin. When I create sites for clients I usually give them editor rights, would this suffice to manage there content translations with your plugin.
I suggest that you use WPML’s Translation Management module for that. You’ll be able to assign translation privileges to any type of user, choose which languages and what content to translate. Have a look here for how it works:
http://wpml.org/documentation/translating-your-contents/using-the-translation-editor/
Hello,
We are interested in purchasing your plugin but there is a question….
Does your extension allow complete SEO in terms of every language getting its own URL, meta, description, page title …you know… SEO stuff 😉 and similar
Thank you and we hope you reply soon.
p.S.
Sorry if this question was allready answered…
Normally, yes. Most themes will store their SEO information in custom fields. Since each post has its own custom fields, it will also have its own meta attributes. If you’re shopping for an SEO plugin, I recommend you look at ‘WordPress SEO’, by Yoast, which runs smooth with WPML.
The upcoming version of AIOSEOP also has good support for WPML, but it’s not released yet.
Can you provide me with a list of webstite with WPML plugins setup for 5 languages ?
Is there any particular things for 5 languages (compare to 2 languges) to care when building the website?
We don’t really track client websites. The number of languages that you use in the site doesn’t matter to WPML. You can have a site with any number of languages.
Hi, I have a site that uses a hotel booking form… can your plugin translate this?
I want to translate this site to chinese.. http://www.goldriversidehotel.com/
So, just wondering how best to translate the booking form…. is it possible?
would I need the standard or pro plugin?
It depends on how this form is generated. If it’s something in your theme’s code, it should be easy to translate. If another plugin is generating it, we can work together with the other author to check how it works on multilingual sites.
WPML is a one-time purchase, right? Or are there recurring yearly fees?
After you buy WPML, you can use it on unlimited sites. We ask for 50% payment again next year, to continue receiving upgrades and support from us. If you don’t renew, what you downloaded will continue working normally, but you will not be able to download newer versions.
We are starting development on a simple multi language site (likely 4 to start). It will be a custom developed theme. Will WPML work for us? We are evaluating multi language support options now.
WPML should work fine for you. Since you’re building it from scratch, you can make thing efficient. Have a look at this page for how to build custom multilingual themes:
http://wpml.org/documentation/support/creating-multilingual-wordpress-themes/
I have a client interested in WPML. Can it handle displaying different images? For example:
1) Company logo is different in each language
2) On the post/page they upload an image
Yes. You can certainly display a different image per language. This will depend on your theme and will probably require some tiny edit to the theme header file.
When you translate posts and pages, you actually create new posts/pages. This means that they can have different images.
Hi there,
I am extremely interested in your plugin but just need to clarify something before the investment.
I am making my website multilingual for german and english…this I can easily do with a number of plugins…BUT the important thing that none of these seem to offer is support for multilingual galleries.
I use standard WP galleries with FancyBox and have captions/descriptions for most pictures…can your media translation add-on for WPML also provide for multiple languages for the captions/descriptions. As I read the information on your site, it seems that this add-on provides for “references” to gallery media in translated gallery posts, but can I then have different caption/description translations?
Thanks for your help.
Sure. Since each media item is actually an independent entry in the database, it will come with its own title and caption.
On a single site, is it possible to have:
1. All mobile traffic to m.domain.com/{user-language}/
2. All desktop traffic to {user-language}.domain.com
Also, moving forward I would suggest that you create an actual contact page for questions. If major companies like Facebook and Google, and relatively small and new companies, have contact pages to communicate directly to them, why should you be any less professional?
When you use languages in directories, WPML checks only the path and not the domain. So, if you have a different subdomain for mobile access, the paths inside it should work the same. I guess that you already know how to setup the mobile subdomain in the DNS and in Apache. WPML should be indifferent to that.
You’re right. Google and Facebook have wonderful contact pages. Do they also reply?
That’s great. FYI:
To contact Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/business/contact.php
To contact Google:
https://support.google.com/a/bin/request.py?&rd=1?/ctx=si&/
Facebook prefer to email but they can call you if you ask them. Google prefer to call and will email if you miss their call. Both respond within 24 hours.
Can WPML translate from English into Thai, Malay, Indonesian, Vietnamese and Burmese?
You can include all these languages in your site with WPML. Please note that WPML doesn’t do any translation. It’s a tool that lets you translate yourself. Have a look here for different ways to translate with WPML:
http://wpml.org/documentation/translating-your-contents/
Amir, thanks for your reply. Besides translating content in pages and posts, I also need to translate menu items, sidebars, categories, product names etc. So, the whole website has to change in the target language. Will WPML be able to do that, too?
WPML can handle all this. It will maintain multilingual menus, taxonomy (including standard tags and categories), widgets and product information.
I’m not sure how you create products. If you’re using an e-commerce plugin, please let me know which.
We are using WP e-commerce version 3.8.8.5, WP e-Commerce Dynamic Gallery LITE, W3 Total cache, Cyclone Slider, MapPress.
The purpose is that a website that is totally in English, i.e. content and UI have to be translated into Thai, Indonesian (Malay is pretty similar and not urgent for that reason), Burmese, Cambodian, Vietnamese and Chinese (various versions of it).
For now I changed some text parts in the various php templates, but that could turn out to be very time consuming for the future.
The posts and content I understand would be no problem. But the next step is the UI on the websites.
Hope it is clear enough to form an idea about what I’m looking for?
BTW, the translations we can do ourselves with SDL Trados Studio.
Thanks again.
WPML has some compatibility problems with WP e-commerce plugin. These are complex things that neither us or WPEC team managed to resolve.
We’re recommending clients to try WooCommerce. It’s very stable and works fine with WPML. WooCommerce developers are actively working with us to resolve any issue that comes up. I’m not sure how this suites your project requirements, but it’s working fine for us.
Well, what about all the work we have put into configuring WP e-Commerce and other plugins to get our sites running? I’ve tried WoCommerce shortly, but was not impressed at all.