You can write in WPML in Vietnamese. There are only a few Vietnamese WPML clients, but you will not be the first one.
When you set up your site, be sure to use the default UTF-8 charset. This is the default when you install WordPress. With UTF-8, everything will display correctly.
WPML will allow you to write content in public pages in both English and Vietnamese. Then, your visitors will be able to select in what language to read. We also have an extension for WPML for BuddyPress: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-multilingual/
And finally, we are also working on an extension for bbPress. This is nearly ready. You can use already bbPress with WPML, like we do on our own site, but this extension will make things even easier.
Does wpml also translate everything from LTR to RTL?
if so,
does it handle (change what need to be changed) all the *.css files and characteristic that need to be modified manually in order to support RTL languages?
(like how its explained in here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Right-to-Left_Language_Support)
WPML sets the language code and direction. Many themes include RTL support in them, causing the theme to load the correct CSS. You should check with the author of your theme. If RTL support is built-in, everything will work correctly.
Hi, a client has asked me to make a multilingual version of an existing WordPress blog. We of course found WPML and it looks fantastic. I just have one question… They are looking to make some adjustments to the templates in a specific language. For example, in the French pages, they do not wish to show any of the menus and want to exclude certain widgets. Is this possible with WPML? Thanks
Can I customize the duplicated pages? For example I might want to have an English sales youtube hosted video on one page and then if I create a Japanese duplicate I would need to change the youtube link to point to the Japanese version. Can I change images in the same way?
Is there a geo-targeting option where I can have customers automatically go to a certain home page by their location?
Generally speaking, WPML works fine with most sliders. It really depends how the slider was created. If it takes its content from custom fields, it will work fine with WPML. If it stores the slides in its own data structure, some configuration or changes may be required.
The best, in order to test compatibility, is to get the sliders plugin author connected with us. We will be happy to review compatibility together and see what’s needed (if any). Can you suggest to the slider plugin author to connect with our compatibility team on this page? http://wpml.org/documentation/theme-compatibility/go-global-program/
We also use Yoast SEO plugin on a number of sites and I’m glad to report that it works smoothly with WPML.
You can certainly customize everything for the translated pages (duplicate or not). The translated content resides in separate blog posts. These posts have their own custom fields (for SEO) and content. You can edit the content and replace the YouTube videos and everything else in it.
WPML includes automatic browser language detection. This is not geo-targeting, as it doesn’t have IP->language tables. Instead, it checks the language preference of your visitors and offers them the content in their language. This feature is optional in WPML. We discovered that browser language detection is a lot more reliable and better serves visitors than IP address lookup.
So, WPML is exactly right for you. You will be able to have completely different content for each country, or duplicate and sync some content. You choose what.
Hello, I’m interested in WPML. I’ve finished my website with woo-commerce and now I want to create cloned versions of the website to target different languages/countries. I also want to be able to have my products show up in those countries google shopping. My plan is to use the WPML plug-in with woo-commerce and create the different language pages thru that. I believe it would meet the requirements of googles feeds
Has anyone had success using the WPML plugin/woo-commerce and try to create multiple country targeted google product feeds?
You should be able to do exactly this. To tell Google that you have different offerings per language, I advice to register different top level domains. This tells Google that it’s not just languages but also different per country. It’s not critical, but can help.
I’m sorry, so you are saying that WPML will allow me to have multiple country targeted product feeds for Google Shopping?
Google Shopping requires (japan example)
– Products must be listed in Japanese.
– Product landing pages must be in Japanese.
– Product prices must be listed in Yen (JPY), including all applicable taxes and charges except shipping.
– Products must be shippable throughout Japan. If you ship from outside Japan, you need to provide the shipping information applicable to customers in Japan and cover all custom charges.
My team is starting a new website (different from alexlarkin.org) that will cater to Mayans predominantly in Guatemala. There are about 30 Mayan languages in Guatemala alone, such as Ixil and K’ich’e. Before we buy this plug-in, we would like to ensure that we will be able to enable these languages as needed. I’m fairly sure they all use roman characters.
If there is an easy-enough process in which we can “add a language,” to our installation that is fine.
Is WPML capable of this?
(We will be doing our own translations for the content)
All these languages are not pre-configured in WPML, but you can easily add them yourself to your site. WPML includes a language editing screen, which lets you add custom languages. When you do that, you enter the language name, the locale name, flag (if needed) and translation for the language name to other languages.
And, you can certainly translate yourself. WPML’s Translation Management module makes it easy to work with your team of translators and manage who does what.
if i install wordpress multi site (first site > wordpress with a premium theme, second site > buddypress with a premium theme), and assuming my themes are compatibles with WPML, would it work with this combination (1 site in wordpress + 1 site buddypress via multisite option of wordpress)
Thanks for your reply. I am wondering which version should I buy. I see 29$ and 79$. I am not sure if I am going to need feature listed in 79$ price :
Translate widgets ==> needed
Translate general admin texts ==> does this mean in admin dashboard ?
Translate texts in theme and plugins admin ==> needed (not sure)
Manage attachments in different languages ==> attachment like ?
Multi-user translation management ==> what is this ?
XLIFF interface ==> what is this ?
CMS navigation ==> what is this ?
Sticky links ==> what is this?
Could you please explain me this so that I can do good judgment if I need 79$ version or not. I have social networking site and will also have woo commerce in it, will $29 cover woo commerce translation ?
From what you’re writing, you need the String Translation module, which is part of the $79 CMS package. The other modules, such as XLIFF are probably not needed for you, but they’re included in that package anyway.
Hello, I would like to use WPML on three of my recently purchased domains. Does that mean I have to buy three licences? They are all three on the same server/hosting.
Regards, David
1. Sorry, but I’m not familiar with that theme. If the theme author is interested, we would be very happy to review compatibility together.
2. WPML lets you add languages in a private way, so that the translated content doesn’t appear on the live site. Then, when you finish the translation, you can switch the status of that language to live.
1) Can you confirm WPML can work together with Pagelines Drag & Drop?
2) When I see the source code from the showcase I see that this tags are included:
Above is the example how I must have it. Is this manageble through WPML?
3) How do I manage the different domeinnames? As you can see I have to serve different languages:
> dutch on domainname.net (country netherlands)
> dutch on nl.domeinname.be (country belgium)
> french on fr.domainname.be (country belgium)
> germen on domainname.de (contry germany)
1. WPML works fine with PageLines.
2. I’m not sure what you mean about seeing the source code. What source code are you looking for?
3. To put different languages in different domains, look at this FAQ: http://wpml.org/faq/server-setting-for-languages-in-different-domains/
4. WPML’s admin screens are open to administrators only. Writers, editors, subscribers and other roles cannot change the language configuration
Those hreflang are important for Google to target language AND region, because the conent for Belgium (Dutch language) and Dutch website are almost going to be the same.
New questions:
> Like I explain I have two Dutch language website (one for Holland, one for Belgium). Can they have the same slug for there pages, like this:
WPML outputs the hreflang tags to tell Google where translations are and in what language. If you would look at the source of any translated content on our site, you will see these tags. You can control the language names that will appear in the tags.
Posts (pages, posts, custom post types) can have the same slugs in different languages. Taxonomy (tags, categories and custom taxonomy) have to have unique slugs. WPML will add language prefixes to avoid conflicts and will strip it from the HTML output. This is a low-level WordPress constraint that we cannot override.
4) How does it work with user levels in WordPress. I don’t want that the user has the availibilty to add extra websites themselves.
So I want that only myself can add for example the german domainname, and when I did that the user can start translating existing pages into german version based on my settings.
I post two other pre-sales reply’s before (not yet answered) and I have some other questions.
> Because you target different country’s / languages, I would like to show different header logo images to different languages. Because WPML is running from one WP installation, I am wondering if this is possible?
> How does WPML handle websites with same language but different country’s? In my case there is a Dutch site targetting Netherlands, and there is a Belgium website also with dutch section on it and an french section.
Like this:
> What if you have some unique pages that are not translated? The hreflang tag should only be available to pages that have a translation. Is this covered?
You can use the constant ICL_LANGUAGE_CODE to determine the current language, when displaying content. Then, add a simple condition in the header.php file to load a different logo per language. This and other constant are described here: http://wpml.org/documentation/support/wpml-coding-api/
You can add your own custom languages to WPML for language variations. For example, you can have fr_FR and fr_BG. You can assign a different name, locale (which .mo file to load) and flag to these custom languages.
WPML will only cross-link to existing content. If some content is only available in certain languages, the translation links will only go to them and not to missing pages.
I will create a multi-site installation composed of four subdomains, one theirs is a blog that is only one language, and the other 3 will be the same content in multiple languages. For this I am looking to buy WPML CMS. I would install a premium theme for all subdomains (same for all, but with minor design modifications). The subdomains would have languages directory (/es, /en …) and it would redirect the user with the option of WPML language as your browser language automatically.
For this: Is a good option WPML CMS, or it does not support having one web of the multisite network in one language and the rest in several? Is it better to create a multisite or maybe I must have the blog in a separate wp from the other three sites?.
Thank you for your reply. I will try to explain my question: I want to create 4 sites in a multi-site wp. 3 of them will be in 3 languages, and the other one will be in one language. Could I do it with WPML (having 3 sites with some languages and 1 with just 1 language), or the 4 languages must be in the same languages?
If WPML does not accept it, maybe I must have 3 sites in a multi-site with WPML, and the other site (in 1 language) in other wp.
Yes, you can do that. You can install WPML on the multisite install and then configure it separately, per child site. Each can have its own languages. When you don’t activate WPML on a child site, it remains a single-language site.
You can activate WPML as a network plugin, but in your case, it would make more sense to activate separately per site, so that it can remain disabled for the fourth site.
Since you’re placing each child site in a subdomain, the languages can be in virtual ‘folders’, like you described in your second comment.
if i install wordpress multi site (first site > wordpress with a premium theme, second site > buddypress/bbpress with a premium theme), and assuming my themes are compatibles with WPML, would it work with this combination (1 site in wordpress + 1 site buddypress via multisite option of wordpress)
Yes, this should work fine. We do all our testing in Multisite mode and we make sure that anything you can do in a single-site will work the same on multisite.
You can do network activation and get WPML automatically on all sites in the network, or activate per child site. As far as I know, you can also activate BuddyPress on child sites, but you should verify that separately. You are welcome to use BuddyPress Multilingual to enjoy a multilingual workflow on your BuddyPress sites: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-multilingual/
Just to be sure….I will update manually the translations for the main parts (where is possible) because i’m using a purchased template, but i would like to be sure that everything will be translated.
You will most likely need the Multilingual CMS version, so it includes everything. I’m not sure how you’re building the calendar. Is it your custom code, or are you using a plugin for that?
since i’ma beginner i will use a calendar already built.
Let’s hope that will not be too much difficult to menage all those languages!! Arabic already terrifying me! :/
Yes, you can load a different CSS file per language. To do this, you’ll need to slightly edit the theme. Where it loads the CSS file, use the constant ICL_LANGUAGE_CODE to determine the language and load the CSS file that you want for each language. In most themes, the CSS is loaded in the header.php file.
Is WPML working well with Vietnamese language ? Any Vietnamese buyer before?
Can I use WPML translate automaticly my posts/pages form Vietnamese to English vice versa?
Can I switch laguage between EN-VN for main pages, not admin pages only ?
Is it working well with Buddypress and forum ?
You can write in WPML in Vietnamese. There are only a few Vietnamese WPML clients, but you will not be the first one.
When you set up your site, be sure to use the default UTF-8 charset. This is the default when you install WordPress. With UTF-8, everything will display correctly.
WPML will allow you to write content in public pages in both English and Vietnamese. Then, your visitors will be able to select in what language to read. We also have an extension for WPML for BuddyPress:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-multilingual/
And finally, we are also working on an extension for bbPress. This is nearly ready. You can use already bbPress with WPML, like we do on our own site, but this extension will make things even easier.
i am interested to purchase wpml, before that i could like know when wpml will support current version of wooCommerence 2.x ?
Almost. We’re working on complete compatibility with WooCommerce 2.x. It’s going into beta this week and should be released early next week.
Hi,
Does wpml also translate everything from LTR to RTL?
if so,
does it handle (change what need to be changed) all the *.css files and characteristic that need to be modified manually in order to support RTL languages?
(like how its explained in here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Right-to-Left_Language_Support)
Thanks.
Ron.
WPML sets the language code and direction. Many themes include RTL support in them, causing the theme to load the correct CSS. You should check with the author of your theme. If RTL support is built-in, everything will work correctly.
Hi, a client has asked me to make a multilingual version of an existing WordPress blog. We of course found WPML and it looks fantastic. I just have one question… They are looking to make some adjustments to the templates in a specific language. For example, in the French pages, they do not wish to show any of the menus and want to exclude certain widgets. Is this possible with WPML? Thanks
Thanks for finding WPML 🙂
WPML sets the language code as a constant, which the theme can check. You can check the value of ICL_LANGUAGE_CODE, as documented here:
http://wpml.org/documentation/support/wpml-coding-api/
Excellent, thanks. I can make some conditional statements in the theme, then, based on the language. Thanks for the prompt reply.
Can this work with sliders? I’m using Layer Slider WP.
I use Yoast’s SEO plug in. Can I decide the url for each of the different languages of a post or page?
http://www.yoursite.com/free shoes
http://www.yoursite.com/sp/zapatos gratis
Can I customize the duplicated pages? For example I might want to have an English sales youtube hosted video on one page and then if I create a Japanese duplicate I would need to change the youtube link to point to the Japanese version. Can I change images in the same way?
Is there a geo-targeting option where I can have customers automatically go to a certain home page by their location?
Generally speaking, WPML works fine with most sliders. It really depends how the slider was created. If it takes its content from custom fields, it will work fine with WPML. If it stores the slides in its own data structure, some configuration or changes may be required.
The best, in order to test compatibility, is to get the sliders plugin author connected with us. We will be happy to review compatibility together and see what’s needed (if any). Can you suggest to the slider plugin author to connect with our compatibility team on this page?
http://wpml.org/documentation/theme-compatibility/go-global-program/
We also use Yoast SEO plugin on a number of sites and I’m glad to report that it works smoothly with WPML.
You can certainly customize everything for the translated pages (duplicate or not). The translated content resides in separate blog posts. These posts have their own custom fields (for SEO) and content. You can edit the content and replace the YouTube videos and everything else in it.
WPML includes automatic browser language detection. This is not geo-targeting, as it doesn’t have IP->language tables. Instead, it checks the language preference of your visitors and offers them the content in their language. This feature is optional in WPML. We discovered that browser language detection is a lot more reliable and better serves visitors than IP address lookup.
Does this help?
Can we have both UK and US flag at the drown down for English language?
Yes. You can create a custom UK English language and use the UK flag for this. Do you need different content for US and UK?
yes we need need different content for them.
So, WPML is exactly right for you. You will be able to have completely different content for each country, or duplicate and sync some content. You choose what.
That is great! We can have 2 English language site with different content and country flag
Hello, I’m interested in WPML. I’ve finished my website with woo-commerce and now I want to create cloned versions of the website to target different languages/countries. I also want to be able to have my products show up in those countries google shopping. My plan is to use the WPML plug-in with woo-commerce and create the different language pages thru that. I believe it would meet the requirements of googles feeds
Has anyone had success using the WPML plugin/woo-commerce and try to create multiple country targeted google product feeds?
You should be able to do exactly this. To tell Google that you have different offerings per language, I advice to register different top level domains. This tells Google that it’s not just languages but also different per country. It’s not critical, but can help.
WPML can display different languages in different domains. See here for how to do this:
http://wpml.org/faq/server-setting-for-languages-in-different-domains/
And, for WooCommerce, we have WooCommerce Multilingual:
http://wpml.org/documentation/related-projects/woocommerce-multilingual/
We are just completing support for WooCommerce 2 and will release this update early next week.
Does this help?
I’m sorry, so you are saying that WPML will allow me to have multiple country targeted product feeds for Google Shopping?
Google Shopping requires (japan example)
– Products must be listed in Japanese.
– Product landing pages must be in Japanese.
– Product prices must be listed in Yen (JPY), including all applicable taxes and charges except shipping.
– Products must be shippable throughout Japan. If you ship from outside Japan, you need to provide the shipping information applicable to customers in Japan and cover all custom charges.
does this plugin available for Brazil language
thanks
Yes. WPML is fully localized to Brazilian Portuguese.
Hello,
My team is starting a new website (different from alexlarkin.org) that will cater to Mayans predominantly in Guatemala. There are about 30 Mayan languages in Guatemala alone, such as Ixil and K’ich’e. Before we buy this plug-in, we would like to ensure that we will be able to enable these languages as needed. I’m fairly sure they all use roman characters.
If there is an easy-enough process in which we can “add a language,” to our installation that is fine.
Is WPML capable of this?
(We will be doing our own translations for the content)
Thank you for your help.
Lots of languages 🙂
All these languages are not pre-configured in WPML, but you can easily add them yourself to your site. WPML includes a language editing screen, which lets you add custom languages. When you do that, you enter the language name, the locale name, flag (if needed) and translation for the language name to other languages.
And, you can certainly translate yourself. WPML’s Translation Management module makes it easy to work with your team of translators and manage who does what.
Hello
if i install wordpress multi site (first site > wordpress with a premium theme, second site > buddypress with a premium theme), and assuming my themes are compatibles with WPML, would it work with this combination (1 site in wordpress + 1 site buddypress via multisite option of wordpress)
Thanks
Hi!
I would like to know if WPML works with the plugins listed in the mail I wrote you on 1st march…
Thanks!
Cristina Lancioni.
I have buddypress installation and I would like to have this site using this WPML plugin, is it possible?
Sure. We’ve created a glue plugin that lets you run multilingual BuddyPress sites with WPML:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-multilingual/
Thanks for your reply. I am wondering which version should I buy. I see 29$ and 79$. I am not sure if I am going to need feature listed in 79$ price :
Translate widgets ==> needed
Translate general admin texts ==> does this mean in admin dashboard ?
Translate texts in theme and plugins admin ==> needed (not sure)
Manage attachments in different languages ==> attachment like ?
Multi-user translation management ==> what is this ?
XLIFF interface ==> what is this ?
CMS navigation ==> what is this ?
Sticky links ==> what is this?
Could you please explain me this so that I can do good judgment if I need 79$ version or not. I have social networking site and will also have woo commerce in it, will $29 cover woo commerce translation ?
From what you’re writing, you need the String Translation module, which is part of the $79 CMS package. The other modules, such as XLIFF are probably not needed for you, but they’re included in that package anyway.
Hello, I would like to use WPML on three of my recently purchased domains. Does that mean I have to buy three licences? They are all three on the same server/hosting.
Regards, David
You can use WPML on all your sites and don’t need to buy per site.
Hello,
Does it work with the Arabic language?
Yes, WPML works great with Arabic. It is also fully localized into Arabic.
Hi,
I would like to check if WPML is compatible with WPeCommerce. Also, is it compatible with the majority of WordPress themes?
Thanks and regards,
Dinu
WPML and WP-ECommerce are not fully compatible. There are issues that we did not manage to resolve. If you are looking for solid multilingual e-commerce, I recommend checking out WooCommerce.
http://wpml.org/documentation/related-projects/woocommerce-multilingual/
Thanks for the quick reply. Are the majority of commercially available WordPress themes compatible as well?
Hi,
1) is WPML compatible with Jewelry Shop Theme.
2) We have a live site, how do we prepare the site but not reveling to public until all translation are done?
1. Sorry, but I’m not familiar with that theme. If the theme author is interested, we would be very happy to review compatibility together.
2. WPML lets you add languages in a private way, so that the translated content doesn’t appear on the live site. Then, when you finish the translation, you can switch the status of that language to live.
How do we do it?
Hi,
I have a few questions:
1) Can you confirm WPML can work together with Pagelines Drag & Drop?
2) When I see the source code from the showcase I see that this tags are included:
Above is the example how I must have it. Is this manageble through WPML?
3) How do I manage the different domeinnames? As you can see I have to serve different languages:
> dutch on domainname.net (country netherlands)
> dutch on nl.domeinname.be (country belgium)
> french on fr.domainname.be (country belgium)
> germen on domainname.de (contry germany)
Hope to hear from you soon.
Kind regards,
Willem
1. WPML works fine with PageLines.
2. I’m not sure what you mean about seeing the source code. What source code are you looking for?
3. To put different languages in different domains, look at this FAQ:
http://wpml.org/faq/server-setting-for-languages-in-different-domains/
4. WPML’s admin screens are open to administrators only. Writers, editors, subscribers and other roles cannot change the language configuration
Does this help?
Hi,
About 2) There is text missing. What I included there was how I want to have my hreflang. Is it possible to manage it like this:
hreflang=”nl_NL” href=”http://domainname.net”
hreflang=”nl_BE” href=”http://domainname.be”
hreflang=”fr_BE” href=”http://fr.domainname.be”
hreflang=”de_DE” href=”http://domainname.de”.
Those hreflang are important for Google to target language AND region, because the conent for Belgium (Dutch language) and Dutch website are almost going to be the same.
New questions:
> Like I explain I have two Dutch language website (one for Holland, one for Belgium). Can they have the same slug for there pages, like this:
domainname.nl/slug-the-same/
domainname.be/slug-the-same/
Or like this:
domainname.com/slug-the-same/
nl-be.domainname.com/slug-the-same/
And I want to know the same for categories and tags if that’s going to cause a problem.
Kind regards,
Willem
WPML outputs the hreflang tags to tell Google where translations are and in what language. If you would look at the source of any translated content on our site, you will see these tags. You can control the language names that will appear in the tags.
Posts (pages, posts, custom post types) can have the same slugs in different languages. Taxonomy (tags, categories and custom taxonomy) have to have unique slugs. WPML will add language prefixes to avoid conflicts and will strip it from the HTML output. This is a low-level WordPress constraint that we cannot override.
Hi,
To continue my previous post:
4) How does it work with user levels in WordPress. I don’t want that the user has the availibilty to add extra websites themselves.
So I want that only myself can add for example the german domainname, and when I did that the user can start translating existing pages into german version based on my settings.
Kind regards,
Willem
Hi,
I post two other pre-sales reply’s before (not yet answered) and I have some other questions.
> Because you target different country’s / languages, I would like to show different header logo images to different languages. Because WPML is running from one WP installation, I am wondering if this is possible?
> How does WPML handle websites with same language but different country’s? In my case there is a Dutch site targetting Netherlands, and there is a Belgium website also with dutch section on it and an french section.
Like this:
> What if you have some unique pages that are not translated? The hreflang tag should only be available to pages that have a translation. Is this covered?
Kind regards,
Willem
You can use the constant ICL_LANGUAGE_CODE to determine the current language, when displaying content. Then, add a simple condition in the header.php file to load a different logo per language. This and other constant are described here:
http://wpml.org/documentation/support/wpml-coding-api/
You can add your own custom languages to WPML for language variations. For example, you can have fr_FR and fr_BG. You can assign a different name, locale (which .mo file to load) and flag to these custom languages.
WPML will only cross-link to existing content. If some content is only available in certain languages, the translation links will only go to them and not to missing pages.
You can reuse images in different languages and give them different description texts, per language. Have a look here for how to do this:
http://wpml.org/documentation/getting-started-guide/media-translation/
OK, sorry, last question:
> How does WPML handle images? Of course each image should have a filename, title and alt in the correct language…
Kind regards,
Willem
I needed to create you that very little observation in order to give many thanks the moment again relating to the pleasing
Hi!
I will create a multi-site installation composed of four subdomains, one theirs is a blog that is only one language, and the other 3 will be the same content in multiple languages. For this I am looking to buy WPML CMS. I would install a premium theme for all subdomains (same for all, but with minor design modifications). The subdomains would have languages directory (/es, /en …) and it would redirect the user with the option of WPML language as your browser language automatically.
For this: Is a good option WPML CMS, or it does not support having one web of the multisite network in one language and the rest in several? Is it better to create a multisite or maybe I must have the blog in a separate wp from the other three sites?.
Thank you very much in advance.
I’m not quite sure what you are describing. If you want to have different languages in different domains, you don’t need to make several WP installations. WPML can take care of that for you. Have a look here:
http://wpml.org/faq/server-setting-for-languages-in-different-domains/
About the theme, if you slightly edit it, you can add conditional logic that will load different images and CSS per language.
Is this what you’re looking to do, or something else?
Hi Amir,
Thank you for your reply. I will try to explain my question: I want to create 4 sites in a multi-site wp. 3 of them will be in 3 languages, and the other one will be in one language. Could I do it with WPML (having 3 sites with some languages and 1 with just 1 language), or the 4 languages must be in the same languages?
If WPML does not accept it, maybe I must have 3 sites in a multi-site with WPML, and the other site (in 1 language) in other wp.
Do you understand me now?
Yes, you can do that. You can install WPML on the multisite install and then configure it separately, per child site. Each can have its own languages. When you don’t activate WPML on a child site, it remains a single-language site.
You can activate WPML as a network plugin, but in your case, it would make more sense to activate separately per site, so that it can remain disabled for the fourth site.
Since you’re placing each child site in a subdomain, the languages can be in virtual ‘folders’, like you described in your second comment.
Sorry, I forgot to say that the 4 sites woud be in subdomains in the same multi-site, and the language in directories (/en, /es…).
Could i know why my previous questions are ignored while everyone else got answers?
Sorry, that’s not supposed to happen. Can you please remind me what you wanted to know?
My question was:
Hello
if i install wordpress multi site (first site > wordpress with a premium theme, second site > buddypress/bbpress with a premium theme), and assuming my themes are compatibles with WPML, would it work with this combination (1 site in wordpress + 1 site buddypress via multisite option of wordpress)
Thanks
Yes, this should work fine. We do all our testing in Multisite mode and we make sure that anything you can do in a single-site will work the same on multisite.
You can do network activation and get WPML automatically on all sites in the network, or activate per child site. As far as I know, you can also activate BuddyPress on child sites, but you should verify that separately. You are welcome to use BuddyPress Multilingual to enjoy a multilingual workflow on your BuddyPress sites:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-multilingual/
Hello Amir,
I’m currently working on a wordpress website where you can rent villas for holidays.
My target is to make it in Eng/French/Arabic
The website will have custom calendar, severals form for enquiries and maybe some others plugin.
Wich of your product do you suggest ? I will update manually all the translation.
thank you very much
All the best,
Ludmilla
Just to be sure….I will update manually the translations for the main parts (where is possible) because i’m using a purchased template, but i would like to be sure that everything will be translated.
Thanks again!
So, like I wrote before, you will most likely need WPML’s String Translation module, which is part of the complete Multilingual CMS package.
You will most likely need the Multilingual CMS version, so it includes everything. I’m not sure how you’re building the calendar. Is it your custom code, or are you using a plugin for that?
Thank you Amir,
since i’ma beginner i will use a calendar already built.
Let’s hope that will not be too much difficult to menage all those languages!! Arabic already terrifying me! :/
Hi , Using this plugin can i use a custom css for the second language .
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Yes, you can load a different CSS file per language. To do this, you’ll need to slightly edit the theme. Where it loads the CSS file, use the constant ICL_LANGUAGE_CODE to determine the language and load the CSS file that you want for each language. In most themes, the CSS is loaded in the header.php file.