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I have a question I’d love some feedback on from the international community regarding. I am not working up a specific site, but would like to be better able to recommend plugins for users attempting to make a multi lingual site. I am aware of qTranslate and WPML. I’ve used them both for clients in the past. I was not super impressed with either of them because of the frustration of dealing with widgets, headers, and other issues.
I recently came across this plugin (someone in support asked about it)
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/multilingual-press/
The idea seems great. It uses multisite to link posts and pages together. Since each language is given it’s own site they could each have a custom header and unique home page widgets. This means the slider, for example, would be in the correct language. You could even alter key parts to better account for slight cultural differences the languages might imply so your users are better suited. The whole thing sounds great …
But I’m wondering if it works as well as it sounds in practice? Has anyone used this plugin and if so does it have any issues I should be aware of before recommending it?
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nickthegeek.
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I can only emphasize what Remkus said: for new projects using more than 1 language I will only setup Multisite installs. That’s the solution I recommend to all clients since spring of this year. WPML is a solution for not so “techie” users but it is likely to happen they complain in the long run and will find themselves locked in…
The “Multilingual Press” plugin is an option – I consider it some helper tool but in the end it’s not needed. Multisite on its own is the native best solution. Not only for scaling reasons.
–Dave
Sorry for the late reply!
Yes the first mentioned plugin by you works like an “more comfort for the admin/ editor & user” plugin. It doesn’t add overhead that locks you in later but rather adds some additions to the admin workflow. And for the frontend it mostly adds the language switcher – similar to that from WPML.
A similar plugin compared to “Multilingual Press” is this one, “Multisite Language Switcher” which is a little more basic/simple but has a solid switch as well as some other basic settings on a per site basis: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/multisite-language-switcher/
WPML itself is a great concept and it works — but it adds lots of overhead and needs lots of additional plugins if you’re working with WooCommerce, EDD, BuddyPress and so. The internal workflow can also be complicated for editors because of the many additions on the edit screens. Also for more than 2 languages and lots of pages and/or posts it may lead out of order sometimes…
At first sight, Multisite may look like it’s “too much” for that task but if you already worked with multilingual sites then it’s the currently best option overall, especially when you just keep all with WordPress default stuff
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