Want to find out how easy it is to translate your WordPress theme into any language? Then read on… Many WordPress themes can be translated, including our themes. They must contain the correct files, consult the theme author if…
You might have met these functions during your WordPress career. These can be used for translating purposes. Here are some quick examples about using them…
It’s very easy to turn a blind eye to other languages when developing your WordPress theme, but this is a very bad habit and immediately turns away a whole market of WordPress users and potentially thousands of dollars in lost revenue…
WordPress is used around the world by people who speak different languages. It is available in many languages and supports localization and translation standards which make it easier for themes and plugins developers to make their…
A subject finally getting some attention in the WordPress community is i18n, or internationalization. Internationalization is the process of making an application ready for translation. Often this gets confused with…
An important part of developing a WordPress theme is to prepare it so that users from every corner of the planet can translate its messages to any language. This article covers the basics of internationalization, which is…
Since the beginning of WordPress the desire to publish the content in different languages is huge. But the topic can quickly become complex, because not only the rendering of content in the form of text in different languages…
All webmasters want to grow their business and get more traffic to their websites. Many of them make the mistake of only focusing on their native traffic. People from other countries may visit your site too. Not everyone can actually read your mother language…
In a perfect world, we’d all speak one language and there’d be no reason to even consider translating our websites to other languages. Unfortunately, that is probably never going to happen. Thanks to plugins such as GTranslate, you can easily let your visitors translate your website’s content into their favorite language and enjoy your content like everyone else. GTranslate takes advantage of Google’s translation service…
The internet is a big space but the world is even bigger. Although English is the most widely used language on the internet at the moment, in less than 5 years it will be Chinese. We read in our native language, search in our native language…
The two main contenders for having multilanguage features in WordPress are WPML and QTranslate. If you want a quick answer to which one is best, I would say go for WPML. If you have enough time to give them a test drive, by all means do so and judge for yourself which one works best for your needs…
The default language for WordPress is English, if you want to post articles in your own language other than English, you need to install the language files: .mo and .po files, for example if You want to install WordPress to display Spanish, You need to download es_ES.po and es_ES.mo…