Website in 3 Languages?

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February 18, 2013 at 2:46 pm #21091

Seth
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I've got a potential client who needs their website to be in 3 separate languages, English, French, Spanish. They currently have 3 separate sites to maintain, one in each language. Obviously this is not ideal. Is there a way to build one site, and have it display in a different language depending upon some criteria? This is new one for me, so not sure what the best option is here.

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February 26, 2013 at 4:40 am #22857

cehwitham
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Hi Seth,

I use the Transposh plugin when working on multi language sites.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/transposh-translation-filter-for-wordpress/

It allows for manual or automatic or a mix of translations and takes care of URLs for you creating a domain.com/ru/ or domain.com/fr/ URL with a duplicate of each page on your site. There is a widget for switching between languages easily and it can try and detect the users native language from the outset.

Chris

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February 26, 2013 at 10:03 am #22918

Seth
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Thanks, I'll check it out!

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February 28, 2013 at 2:56 pm #23350

cehwitham
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Let us know how you get on Seth.

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February 28, 2013 at 4:02 pm #23369

Seth
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Will do. I'm leaning towards using Multi-site, but will be looking at other options as well. Thanks again for the suggestion.

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April 19, 2013 at 7:24 pm #36483

tekgirl02
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Transposh works really well! My Norwegian client said it is the best translation software he has seen yet.

June 17, 2013 at 2:32 pm #46402

eamonmoriarty
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Apparently there are issues with pages translated with Transposh not appearing on SERPS. See this post

Has anybody here any experience of this?

Eamon Moriarty
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July 23, 2013 at 4:57 am #52003

Debs
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i'm using WordPress Multilingual Plugin on this site in chinese and english - seems to work pretty well Adam-Williams.net...still ironing out kinks, but on the whole am very pleased with it...
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