Building multi-language sites in WordPress

I have a little experience in bulding multi-language websites in Joomla, with the great JoomFish plug-in (thanks to Yeshe Choesang la at The Tibet Post). In WordPress, there are a couple of good plug-ins, but it looks like they don't yet match up to JoomFish yet. But WordPress is working on it!

For now, it looks like WordPress MU (multiple subdomains) may be the way to go, with the WPML plugin.

WordPress MU with WPML

• About WordPress MU:
  http://mu.wordpress.org/about/
• Using WPMU to Build Multi-Lingual Websites (Jan 2009)
  http://wpmu.org/using-wpmu-to-build-multilingual-websites/
• WPML Multilingual CMS - the plugin: (Dec 2009)
  http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sitepress-multilingual-cms/
  http://www.icanlocalize.com/site/services/website-translation/wordpress-translation/
• Individual languages for WordPress Mu sites (April 2009) some useful notes.
  http://www.simonwheatley.co.uk/2009/04/17/individual-languages-for-wordpress-mu-sites/
• Using WordPress MU for Multi-Lingual Websites (Dec 2008)
  http://blog-en.icanlocalize.com/2008/12/using-wordpress-try-wpmu-for-multi-lingual-websites/
• Comparison of regular WordPress and WordPress MU
  http://wordpress.jdwebdev.com/blog/wp-vs-mu/
  (looks like it's from 2008 - so things may have changed ... but it's still useful ...)

MultiLanguage Plugins (for regular WordPress):

It looks like the two plugin contenders are xLanguage and qTranslate

xLanguage

• http://hellosam.net/project/xlanguage
• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/xlanguage/
• Notes on using xLanguage:
  http://wordpress.org/support/topic/292637

qTranslate

• http://www.qianqin.de/qtranslate/
• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/qtranslate/
• http://www.matteoionescu.com/wordpress/qtranslatemeta/
• http://www.matteoionescu.com/wordpress/wordpress-multilanguage-cms-plugin/

Comparison of some language plugins:

• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/xlanguage/other_notes/
  (compares xLanguage to qTranslate, ...)

Bonus links! :)

I thought these were really useful for general overviews of CMS:

• Things to Consider When Using WordPress as a CMS
  http://www.devlounge.net/publishing/things-to-consider-when-using-wordpress-as-a-cms
• How Should I Build a New Website http://blog-en.icanlocalize.com/2009/01/how-should-i-build-a-new-website/

Know more

About Multi-Language WordPress

• List of wordpress articles with the tag "multilanguage"
• Search Google for WordPress MU multilanguage (through Scroogle)
• Search Google for wordpress multilanguage (through Scroogle)
• Check this directory for more files about WordPress language.

About WordPress

• There is more interesting info in the previous directory as well.

General info:

• www.tibetangeeks.com

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Written 22 December 2009
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