how to make your wordpress website multilingual - wordcamp paris 2016
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Ma# PilarskiDigitalCube Inc.
How to make your WordPress website Mul5lingual
MATT Pilarski
Tech Evangelist DigitalCube Inc.
@macpil85
WORDCAMP Kansai JP ·
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WORDCAMP Warsaw · Europe
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Languages on the internet
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
World Internet Usage and Popula2on Sta2s2cs Nov 31, 2015 - Update h?p://www.internetworldstats.com/stats7.htm
EnglishChineseSpanish
ArabicPortuguese
JapaneseRussia
MalaysiaFrench
GermanyOther
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
Content languages for websites Mar 18, 2015 h?ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_used_on_the_Internet
EnglishRussianGerman
JapaneseSpanishFrench
ChinesePortuguese
ItalianPolishOther
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
BENEFITS OF HAVING A
MULTILINGUAL WEBSITE
TYPESOF
TRANSLATIONS
Machine transla?ons
Human transla?ons
Human transla?ons
• In house translator
• Freelance translators
• TranslaSon agencies
• upwork.com
• fiverr.com
• proz.com
• icanlocalize.com
• textmaster.com
• tolingo.com
• onehourtranslaSon.com
Transla?onservices
Human transla?ons
• One page soluSon
• Dedicated category
• Custom post type
• Duplicate website
• MulSsite
Plugins
• MulSlingualPress
• Bogo
• Polylang
• qTranslate X
• Babble
• WPML
Mul?lingualPress
Polylang
qTranslate X
Bogo
Babble
The WordPress Mul?lingual Plugin
Conclusion• The Future of WordPress is Global
• There is no perfect soluSon yet
• Keep it simple
Ma# PilarskiDigitalCube Inc.
Merci!