Multilingual site with subdomains

  • andoru1

    (@andoru1)


    11 years ago

    So I’ve made a site with WordPress, and it’s structure is as follows:

    mysite.tld/index.html -> a language selector page I made
    en.mysite.tld -> the english version of the site
    de.mysite.tld -> german translated version of the site (currently it’s just a subdomain with an empty folder)
    fr.mysite.tld -> french translated version of the site (currently it’s just a subdomain with an empty folder)
    static.mysite.tld -> a subdomain where I keep all the images and fonts and other miscellaneous stuff

    So basically I already have the site made in english, but now I would want to translate everything to the other two languages. I was thinking I could do this by copying the english wordpress site/installation, and just hack away and translate, but this would imply I need to have multiple copies of the same items under /wp-content/ (I could move this folder to the static subdomain and point WordPress to the subdomain itself as a solution) which would be a bit wasteful, and also it would be a pain to have to manually add new posts and have to do the same posts under the other languages.

    So is there a simple solution to make this work?
    I’ve tried a few multilingual plugins, but none of them helped me achieve what I want, or I haven’t set them up properly to work as intended.

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  • wanderingbedou

    (@wanderingbedou)

    11 years ago

    Hi andoru1,

    WordPress doesn’t support multilingual sites out of the box, but there are a few ways to accomplish what you need.

    The most obvious is to look through the various plugins that are available. You can read an overview of that approach, as well as other ways to handle a multilingual site in WordPress at this link:
    https://codex.wordpress.org/Multilingual_WordPress

    I hope that helps.

    If you need more guidance, just reply.

    Thread Starter andoru1

    (@andoru1)

    11 years ago

    With most of the plugins I’ve tried I’ve set them up, specified the exact URL to each language’s site, but when I go to any of those subdomains (for example I go to de.mysite.tld), it still displays a blank page. Do I have to install WordPress on each of those subdomains?

    wanderingbedou

    (@wanderingbedou)

    11 years ago

    Can you get specific about which plugin you are using? The solution will depend on how the plugin handles the multilingual feature.

    Some plugins do use WordPress multisites, while others utilize different workarounds.

    Thread Starter andoru1

    (@andoru1)

    11 years ago

    Sorry… Right now I have Polylang installed, but previously I tried nLingual, WPGlobus, and Multisite Language Switcher, and so far they all seemed to do the same thing.

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