This page collects the resources you need to build with WPML as a developer.
Whether you’re making your theme or plugin multilingual, getting it WPML-certified, or building custom multilingual sites for clients, you’ll find the relevant guides and references below.
1) Make Your Theme or Plugin Multilingual
This task will prove easier to tackle with the help of these guides:
2) Get Your Theme or Plugin WPML-Certified
WPML’s compatibility team tests thousands of themes and plugins. You can find what’s tested and works well with WPML in these lists.
Theme and plugin authors are welcome to join WPML’s Go Global program, where you can get help so our products work well together.
3) Build Multilingual Sites with Custom Post Types, Fields, and Taxonomies
Learn how custom post types, fields, and taxonomies make multilingual websites easy for your clients to translate and for you to maintain.
4) Develop Multilingual Sites with WPML and Page Builders
Learn how to develop websites with WPML and page builders that use shortcodes and how to register page builder widgets for translation.
- Registering Page Builder Widgets for Translation
- Maintaining WPBakery Page Builder Compatibility with WPML
- Maintaining CornerStone Compatibility with WPML
- Maintaining Enfold Compatibility with WPML
- Maintaining the Divi Builder Compatibility with WPML
- Maintaining the Avada Builder Compatibility with WPML
5) Other Programmer Resources
- Translating WordPress Themes with .mo Files
- Add WPML-installer to Your Theme or Plugin
- Add Custom Admin User Capabilities
- WPML’s Coding API
- WPML’s Database Tables
- Sending Emails with WPML
- Browser Cookies Stored by WPML
- Cron Jobs Run by WPML and WPML Multilingual & Multicurrency for WooCommerce
- WPML Troubleshooting Options
- Using WPML with Redis Caching
- How to Create String Packages