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How to make your WordPress website Mul5lingual

MATT Pilarski

Tech Evangelist DigitalCube Inc.

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Languages on the internet

World Region Population Internet Users % Penetration

Africa 1,158,355,663 330,965,359 28,6%

Asia 4,032,466,882 1,622,084,293 40,2%

Europe 821,555,904 604,147,280 73,5%

Middle East 236,137,235 123,172,132 52,2%

North America 357,178,284 313,867,363 87,9%

Latin America 617,049,712 344,824,199 55,9%

Oceania / Australia 37,158,563 27,200,530 73,2%

World Internet Usage and Popula2on Sta2s2cs Nov 31, 2015 - Update h?p://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm

World Internet Usage and Popula5on

World Internet Usage and Popula2on Sta2s2cs Nov 31, 2015 - Update h?p://www.internetworldstats.com/stats7.htm

EnglishChineseSpanish

ArabicPortuguese

JapaneseRussia

MalaysiaFrench

GermanyOther

0 225 450 675 900

734

83,7

97,2

98,9

103,1

114,9

131,9

168,1

256,8

704,5

872,9

millions of users

Number of Internet Users by Language

Content languages for websites Mar 18, 2015 h?ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_used_on_the_Internet

EnglishRussianGerman

JapaneseSpanishFrench

ChinesePortuguese

ItalianPolishOther

0 15 30 45 60

0,1%

1,7%

1,9%

2,5%

2,8%

4%

4,6%

5%

5,8%

5,9%

55,5%

EsSmated percentages of 1 million websites using various content languages

Top Ten Languages Used on Websites

BENEFITS OF HAVING A

MULTILINGUAL WEBSITE

TYPESOF

TRANSLATIONS

Machine transla?ons

Human transla?ons

Human transla?ons

• In house translator

• Freelance translators

• TranslaSon agencies

• upwork.com

• fiverr.com

• proz.com

• icanlocalize.com

• textmaster.com

• tolingo.com

• onehourtranslaSon.com

Transla?onservices

Human transla?ons

• One page soluSon

• Dedicated category

• Custom post type

• Duplicate website

• MulSsite

Plugins

• MulSlingualPress

• Bogo

• Polylang

• qTranslate X

• Babble

• WPML

Mul?lingualPress

Polylang

qTranslate X

Bogo

Babble

The WordPress Mul?lingual Plugin

Conclusion• The Future of WordPress is Global

• There is no perfect soluSon yet

• Keep it simple

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