Title: multi site for multi languages
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# multi site for multi languages

 *  [moazbasha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moazbasha/)
 * (@moazbasha)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multi-site-for-multi-languages/)
 * Hello
    I have some question 1- Can I use multi sites to make two sites one is
   English and another is Arabic site by using po/mo files ??
 * 2- what is better for multi sites, subdomain or subfolder??
 * 3- Both subfolder and subdomain are required me to do special setting in my cPanel
   or both are just virtual site??
 * 4- what is the best – make two sites by two database or – make two sites by using
   multisites ??
 * Thank you

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 *  [sunil.ch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sunilch/)
 * (@sunilch)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multi-site-for-multi-languages/#post-3662464)
 * Hello moazbasha,
 * If you are working on wordpress then use one domain, one folder, one database..
   
   for this use WPML plugin, it is a multilanguage plugin for wordpress having the
   functionality for multiple languages by using .po, .mo files..
 *  Thread Starter [moazbasha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moazbasha/)
 * (@moazbasha)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multi-site-for-multi-languages/#post-3662469)
 * Thanks for reply
    I have tried this plugin before but I didn’t like it because
   for arabic site some contents of theme must be at right side (rtl) WPML plugin
   doesn’t support modify CSS for each language therefor I must make two sites. 
   To make special CSS for each site
 * My question is if I can make two sites by two languages by po/mo files using 
   multi sites
 *  [Fuel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/denishvachhani/)
 * (@denishvachhani)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multi-site-for-multi-languages/#post-3662709)
 * [@moazbasha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moazbasha/)
 * how did you manage this?
    Currenlty i have same situation like you. if I can 
   make two sites by two languages by po/mo files using multi sites?
 *  Thread Starter [moazbasha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moazbasha/)
 * (@moazbasha)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multi-site-for-multi-languages/#post-3662710)
 * I have tried two solution & I prefer WPML Plugin
 * You can use multisites or WPML plugin
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_in_Your_Language](http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_in_Your_Language)
 *  [Fuel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/denishvachhani/)
 * (@denishvachhani)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multi-site-for-multi-languages/#post-3662711)
 * i choose multisites instead of WPML. now only one help needed.
 * How to call different PO/MO files for theme based on different sites in multisite.
 * for e.g
    German — de_DD.mo Nedharland – nl_NL.mo
 * But over here in wp-config.php — i can set only one language in ‘WP_LANG’ options
   for main language.
 *  Thread Starter [moazbasha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moazbasha/)
 * (@moazbasha)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multi-site-for-multi-languages/#post-3662712)
 * From My wp-cnfig.php file
 * `define('WPLANG', '');`
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multi-site-for-multi-languages/#post-3662713)
 * If you want each site to have it’s own language, you can use PHP if-checks in
   your wp-config:
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multi-site-for-multi-languages/#post-3662714)
 * If you want each site to have it’s own language, you can use PHP if-checks in
   your wp-config:
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multi-site-for-multi-languages/#post-3662715)
 * If you want each site to have it’s own language, you can use PHP if-checks in
   your wp-config:
 *     ```
       if ( $_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"] == "domain-en.com" ) { define('WPLANG', 'en_us'); }
   
       if ( $_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"] == "domain-nl.com" ) { define('WPLANG', 'NL_nl'); }
       ```
   
 * And so on.
 *  [Fuel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/denishvachhani/)
 * (@denishvachhani)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multi-site-for-multi-languages/#post-3662716)
 * [@ipstenu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) – Mike
    Finally i solved
   it, I am sharing this so it might be useful for someone
 * [@mika](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mika/), The way you are doing will
   not work for multisite:
    Because:
 * If you see the function at `wp-includes/i10n.php`
 *     ```
       function get_locale() {
           global $locale;
   
           if ( isset( $locale ) )
               return apply_filters( 'locale', $locale );
   
           // WPLANG is defined in wp-config.
           if ( defined( 'WPLANG' ) )
               $locale = WPLANG;
   
          // If multisite, check options.
           if ( is_multisite() ) {
               // Don't check blog option when installing.
               if ( defined( 'WP_INSTALLING' ) || ( false === $ms_locale = get_option( 'WPLANG' ) ) )
                   $ms_locale = get_site_option('WPLANG');
   
               if ( $ms_locale !== false )
                   $locale = $ms_locale;
           }
   
           if ( empty( $locale ) )
               $locale = 'en_US';
   
           return apply_filters( 'locale', $locale );
       }le', $locale );
       }
       ```
   
 * This function assumes, that if you have multiple websites and one `wp-config.
   php`, then this variable should be loaded from the database under totally different
   name `$locale`.
 * So be careful and remember that after installing WordPress multisite, translation
   files are loaded according to the site meta `WPLANG`, which is saved in DB. And
   don’t try to update this value from the admin panel, because it is buggy and 
   does not work. Just go to the database with phpmyadmin and change the value there.
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multi-site-for-multi-languages/#post-3662717)
 * How would that not work?
 * Don’t set locale globally, set it per-site.

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 * [multisites](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/multisites/)

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 * Last reply from: [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multi-site-for-multi-languages/#post-3662717)
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