Multi-Language with Domains

  • bamdaschmu

    (@bamdaschmu)


    13 years, 6 months ago

    Hi,

    I have 2 domains, say: http://www.sample.de and http://www.sample.com. Now I have WordPress running with a nice Theme.

    Now what I want to achieve, but dont know how or which plugin to use:

    1. I want my site to have 2 Languages: English and German. I want to write both languages for each Post/Page/Portfolio-Item myself, so no automatic translation or agency.
    2. I want to have the language choice in the header (small flags or just links if I want en or de)

    I saw some plugins, which handle the first 2 points, but now to what is giving me headaches, and Im really lost without you awesome guys here:

    3. Although I want to have the choise on every site to swich the language, I want the domain to set the initial language, so:
    If I go to http://www.sample.com, I get the english language version.
    If I go to http://www.sample.de, I get the german language version.

    Not only that, I really would love to have nice urls, so:
    If I would be on Portfolio page 3 in english, the url bar would say: http://www.sample.com/superniceproduct3
    If I would be on the same site in german, the url should be:
    http://www.sample.de/superniceproduct3

    Other example: Contact formular should be in english:
    http://www.sample.com/contact
    in german: http://www.sample.de/contact.

    What I really don’t want:
    Language shortcuts behind domain: http://www.sample.com/us_en/

    What I really don’t want either:
    If a en page(or else) is on http://www.sample.com/page2
    and I go to http://www.sample.de and click on the link to the site, that it swiches the url to http://www.sample.com/…

    Heres what I can do:
    My server has new php and mysql installed, so all newer plugins should be no problem.
    Also I can redirect my urls to specific folders. That is acctually happening now allready: The site is on http://www.server.net/blog and both sample.com and sample.de are redirecting to that folder.
    So if it would be possible to direct sample.com to http://www.server.net/blog/us_en and the sample.de to http://www.server.net/blog/de_de and everything would still run, that would be also great…

    Ok, I wanted to make it short, but the post turned out rather long. But hopefully somebody can help me or direct me towards the right plugins and If so I will report that everything worked and hopefully this will help other people too. Because I think this is a rather common problem I’m trying to solve here.

    THANKS!

    Bam

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  • Jacob Schweitzer

    (@primetimejas)

    13 years, 6 months ago

    What you want to do is possible but a little tricky. You can put two domains on one WordPress install. And as far as connecting the two, so that when you write a post in one, it shows up in the other, that is a bit tricky. You’d have to make a new post as a “draft” in the other site, then go there to translate and then make the post live. As far as switching, if the page slugs are exactly the same for every page, it should work, then you just add a link to every post which replaces the domain name for the other language. Message me if you have some question or something.

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