Added language to existing website

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brkseven

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May 14, 2011

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• Sep 22, 2013

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I'm curious to read what IMs that have great experience in this matter have to say about adding a language to an existing WP based company website.

How would you go about setting up an added language to the established one in English set up on the main domain...

Thanks for any constructive input!

 

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fredthered

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• Sep 22, 2013

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Easiest thing is to set up another WP blog on a sub-folder e.g. "/spanish/".

If you want to do many more languages there may be a better way.

 

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Freeland92

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• Sep 22, 2013

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or you might do subdomain...but this would mean you have to duplicate content, isnt it? like if you wanna sell the same products to customers in spanish and english language

 

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brkseven

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• Sep 22, 2013
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fredthered said:

Easiest thing is to set up another WP blog on a sub-folder e.g. "/spanish/".

If you want to do many more languages there may be a better way.

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Yeah, that's what I've done before and I don't mind doing it again.
I was just checking if something there was new I didn't know about.

Thanks!

 

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brkseven

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• Sep 22, 2013
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Freeland92 said:

or you might do subdomain...but this would mean you have to duplicate content, isnt it? like if you wanna sell the same products to customers in spanish and english language

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I've usually done another folder. In my case the duplicated issue is not really an issue because it would be selling services, not goods, and anyway, not even really selling, just describing, it's a company website.

Thanks!

 

HeRBaR

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• Sep 22, 2013

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There is a plugin for Wordpress that does all the hard job.
I have bought it and used some time ago and it was very nice and easy.
No need for multiple WP installs, multiple databases and shit like this
This is the link to the pluign homepage: http://wpml.org/
But same as this plugin I think that you can find other plugins that are FREE
Cheers