If you want to use this plugin you must configure your WordPress installation in this way. But there are other ways to have a multilingual blog. Please have a look here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Multilingual_WordPress
Cheers,
Dennis.
Hi Dennis, thank you for your anser but I read that already. I already tried qtranslate. The other solution numbered 1-3 and 4 do not seem to be quite right for my needs. I also looked at a paying solution : http://wpml.org/ Maybe this would be the simplest.
Yes, WPML is maybe a better solution if you don’t want to set up a multisite.
THank you, I will let you know if it’s good after I installed it. I most probably will opt for that.
Can I create a newtork to use it with sub/folder and not sub-domain. For exemple setup the english site at http://www.juliecloutier.com/en and the french site at http://www.juliecloutier.com/fr
If that was a question, the answer is: Sure you can!
Use the multisite feature in WordPress 3.0 (or higher). Just follow the instructions in the link that you posted above: Create a Network, before that give a look at Before You Create a Network and, if you want to know in advance something about administration, at Multisite Network Administration
Happy networking!
Thank you for your answer. The network solution is working great, I think it is the best solution for a multilingual website or blog.
Hi, realloc I thought I’d re-open this thread because I have a question with the network multisite. I created a french site and created annetwork for the english version to be stored in a sub-directory /en.
I like the network solution for bilingual site because I like the plugin multi site language switcher to navigate from one langage to the other, I think it is the best plugins and I also like the fact that we can manage both site in one wp admin.
Now, I have a problem though. I created a site at http://www.groupeespaces.ca and it is in french. I created a network multi-site and added a new site as a sub/directory at http://www.groupeespaces.ca/en I want to copy the main site http://www.groupeespaces.ca to the new site http://www.groupeespaces.ca/en so that I can build the english from the exact replica of the french and not from scratch as it is right now. I already tried the plugin blog copier but as you can see from the image here : http://www.juliecloutier.com/network_images/blogcopier_trouble.jpg
It does not let me use the root http://www.groupeespaces.ca as the source blog to copy from.
Do you know af a simple solution to do this, Surely there is a simple way, even if manual to copy the whole main site to a sub-directory. I have looked at the wordpress support for : http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory but I don’t think this apply to multisite network. Can you help me ?
I’m not sure if I have fully understood the problem. The site http://www.groupeespaces.ca is a part of your network http://www.juliecloutier.com/? Or is this just a network with these 2 sites: http://www.groupeespaces.ca and http://www.groupeespaces.ca/en?
It is just a network of these 2 sites. http://www.groupeespaces.ca and http://www.groupeespaces.ca/en
the first one is the main french version of the site and the second one, I aim it to be the english version of the site. But I wish to copy the entire french (post, pages, menu, gallery, theme, styling CSS) in the english so that I do not need to start from scratch.
Maybe I am not approaching this the right way ? I wanted to do a network so that we could use the multi-site language switcher has a plugin to go from the french to the english and vice versa and also I like the network solution because it enables us to do the updates and editing in one wordpress platform instead of 2 separates. But if it is too complicated to achieve the copy of the site, then I might do 2 seperates wordpress installation one at http://www.groupeespaces.ca and the english one at http://www.groupeespaces.ca/en
Maybe then it will get simpler to copy one site to the other since the database won’t be mixed up so I could keep the same page ID and everything ? My page ID are in usage in my CSS of the menu so I hope they stay the same for the english.
If you think I should do 2 seperate site not in a network, let me know and if you have an idea of the plugin I should use to navigate from one to another let me know too. I have heard about WPML as a plugin for milti-lingue website.
Hum, thank you for trying to help but in the FAQ section of that plugins it says :
Why can’t I clone the main site?
I chose not to because the main site can be slightly different in structure than a new network site. Therefore the plugin is not looking for the main site in the template selection. Make a new site manually first, edit it to your whishing (no domainmapping required), and use that site as a template to clone.
So it brings me back to square 1 not being able to copy the main site.
OK, what about the normal export and then import that in your new blog?
What about it, I never heard of that. I have been asking around in support forum for the past week and no one ever mentioned that. Normal export-import.
Wow, I am going to try it. I guess this might be the way to go. I suppose I can later on import the theme and styling.
I hope it will import the Gallery too.
For the import it will install another plugin but this is a small one and you can de-install it after that.
Let me know if it works for you.
