How to make your WordPress website Multilingual - WordCamp London 2016
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The document discusses making WordPress websites multilingual, emphasizing the importance of reaching a global audience. It outlines statistics on internet usage by language and the benefits of having a multilingual website, alongside various translation options and WordPress plugins available for implementation. It concludes that while there is no perfect solution yet, the future of WordPress is global and recommends simplicity in approach.
How to make your WordPress website Multilingual - WordCamp London 2016
- 1. Ma# Pilarski DigitalCube Inc. How to make your WordPress website Mul5lingual
- 2. MATT Pilarski Tech Evangelist DigitalCube Inc. @macpil85 WORDCAMP Kansai JP · Paris WORDCAMP Warsaw · Europe
- 3. london WarsawJapan AMIMOTO: WordPress + Amazon Web Services
- 5. Languages on the internet
- 6. World Region Population Internet Users % Penetration Africa 1,158,355,663 330,965,359 28,6% Asia 4,032,466,882 1,622,084,293 40,2% Europe 821,555,904 604,147,280 73,5% Middle East 236,137,235 123,172,132 52,2% North America 357,178,284 313,867,363 87,9% Latin America 617,049,712 344,824,199 55,9% Oceania / Australia 37,158,563 27,200,530 73,2% World Internet Usage and Popula2on Sta2s2cs Nov 31, 2015 - Update h?p://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm World Internet Usage and Popula5on
- 7. World Internet Usage and Popula2on Sta2s2cs Nov 31, 2015 - Update h?p://www.internetworldstats.com/stats7.htm English Chinese Spanish Arabic Portuguese Japanese Russia Malaysia French Germany Other 0 225 450 675 900 734 83,7 97,2 98,9 103,1 114,9 131,9 168,1 256,8 704,5 872,9 millions of users Number of Internet Users by Language
- 8. Content languages for websites Mar 18, 2015 h?ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_used_on_the_Internet English Russian German Japanese Spanish French Chinese Portuguese Italian Polish Other 0 15 30 45 60 0,1% 1,7% 1,9% 2,5% 2,8% 4% 4,6% 5% 5,8% 5,9% 55,5% EsSmated percentages of 1 million websites using various content languages Top Ten Languages Used on Websites
- 13. Human translaGons • In house translator • Freelance translators • TranslaSon agencies
- 14. • icanlocalize.com • upwork.com • fiverr.com • proz.com • textmaster.com • tolingo.com • onehourtranslaSon.com TranslaGon services
- 15. Human translaGons • One page soluSon • Dedicated category • Custom post type • Duplicate website • MulSsite
- 16. Plugins • WPML • MulSlingualPress • Bogo • Polylang • qTranslate X • Babble
- 18. The WordPress MulGlingual Plugin
- 19. MulGlingualPress
- 20. Polylang
- 21. qTranslate X
- 22. Bogo
- 23. Babble
- 24. Conclusion • The Future of WordPress is Global • There is no perfect soluSon yet • Keep it simple