Title: Localization and Multi-Lingual
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Localization and Multi-Lingual

 *  [joshuajrichards](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joshuajrichards/)
 * (@joshuajrichards)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localization-and-multi-lingual/)
 * I’m trying to determine the best solution for what I’m trying to achieve here.
 * 1 website with 2 languages, and 2 localizations.
 * I need Canadian English, and Canadian French (which will have translated content).
   And American (which will have content that is unique to it).
    The American site
   won’t need translations.
 * I think the following url structure would make sense
 * domain.com/ca/en/ (Canadian English, may have content unique to Canada)
    domain.
   com/ca/fr/ (french translations of the Canadian English Site) domain.com/us/ (
   American English, may have content unique to US)
 * Is WPML capable of dealing with this? Or is there a better plugin to include?
 * The site will have custom post types as well. And the translations will be handled
   by an internal team, manually translated.
 * Thank you

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 *  [Rae](https://wordpress.org/support/users/raewilson/)
 * (@raewilson)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localization-and-multi-lingual/#post-6693798)
 * Hi joshuajrichards,
 * You might want to get in touch with WPML directly and ask if they can handle 
   that kind of structure.
 * If you’re keen to check out another plugin, qTranslate ([http://www.qianqin.de/qtranslate/](http://www.qianqin.de/qtranslate/))
   handles URLs nicely. The info on their website says you can:
    * Choose one of
   3 Modes to make your URLs pretty and SEO-friendly. – The everywhere compatible?
   lang=en, simple and beautiful /en/foo/ or nice and neat en.yoursite.com * One
   language per URL – Users and SEO will thank you for not mixing content.
 * Hope that helps!
 * Cheers, Rae
 *  Thread Starter [joshuajrichards](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joshuajrichards/)
 * (@joshuajrichards)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localization-and-multi-lingual/#post-6693834)
 * Thanks Rae.
 * It seems I no longer need french, and just need to do the following:
 * 1. Canadian and US content
    2. Content shared between the two
 * I think url structure would still be
 * [http://somedomain.com/ca/](http://somedomain.com/ca/)
    [http://somedomain.com/us/](http://somedomain.com/us/)
 * Where landing on the root, would redirect you. Is that best practise for SEO?
 *  [Rae](https://wordpress.org/support/users/raewilson/)
 * (@raewilson)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localization-and-multi-lingual/#post-6693849)
 * Hi Joshua,
 * This video by Matt Cutts from Google should answer your questions about URL structure:
   [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyWx31GeQWY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyWx31GeQWY)
 * Cheers, Rae

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