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Why do you need multi-linguistic in your WordPress?
Even though many users view their internet content in English but it’s not bounded that all the viewers must see the content in only English, Here you will get to know how to ease your user with multilingual website in WordPress.
Users are comfortable with their own language and many are multilingual. To be able to reach out to more users you need to adjust to their preferences.
What is Multilingual wordPress Website?
You are showing your website in different language of the same content. this can be tricky as distinct languages can mean entirely different by translating it literally. You need to focus what your content means rather than the words used and extract the essence so it would be relevant to the users.
Google translation has stopped supporting free web pages translations for new accounts and even if through paid services than its either not up to the quality.
In this article we will cover how to set up multilingual plugin in WordPress through different way and how to use more than one plugin for translation.
By following this article, you will be able to translate your post, description, themes and cover most of the content of you WordPress website.
Which Plugin should you choose?
Here are some of the best WordPress translation plugins.
- (WordPress Multilingual)
- Translate-press
- Poly-lang
- Weglot Translate
- Babble
In this article we will demonstrate TranslatePress.
Using TranslatePress for multilingual WordPress.
Step 1: install TraslatePress from your WordPress directory.
STEP 2: ACTIVATE THE PLUGIN AND THE SETTING WILL APPEAR ON YOUR DASHBOARD
STEP 3:
CUSTOMIZE YOUR TRANSLATEPRESS SETTING. YOU CAN NAVIGATE TO THE ABOVE TABS AND CHANGE ACCORDING TO YOUR REQUIREMENTS. YOU CAN ADD MORE THAN ONE LANGUAGE THROUGH TRANSLATEPRESS PRO.
Step 4: now translate your WordPress by clicking translate site in the nav bar
STEP 5: CONTINUE ADDING YOUR TRANSLATIONS AND YOU CAN EASILY VIEW THE CHANGES THROUGH URL LIKE
Whatever slug you have used when saving your settings, you can use it in the end of the URL
Now you can review your translated page. You can notice that TranslatePress has changed your customed setting as well as your menu, sidebar and other content of your page automatically.
conclusion
Multilingual supporting websites are much preffered as they show sensitivity towards different languages. Moreover, the chances of delivering the content of the website are higher if it’s in the user’s native language.
