Do you want to translate your site into
multiple languages? Well keep watching
in this video I'll walk you through how
to translate your site into multiple
languages in WordPress. I'll show you two
different methods the first method is
the preferred method simply because you
have complete control over the
translation of your site. That also means
you'll have to do the translation though
so to get started let's head over to our
WordPress dashboard, I'll put this into
full mode so you can see more of my
screen and we'll be installing a plugin
for the first one so let's go to plugins,
add new. The plug-in we're looking for is
called polylang and this is the one we
want so we'll click install now. Once
it's done installing we'll also want to
make sure that we click activate. So
let's click on languages; from here you
want to add all of the languages that
you want to translate your site into.
Make sure you add the native language
that your site is in first because you
want to have all languages in this
section.
Once you add all of the languages you'll
notice that zero posts are assigned to
any language and you also see this
notification that there are post
categories or tags without a default
language so you can go in to select all
of them to the default language
and since we added our main language first
it automatically will default them to
that. Next we can move on to the
translation part so you want to go into
the posts that you want to do, pick the
one that you want to translate, go into
edit and now you have the language
default here you can simply add the
French translation here and once you
have the French translation going on now
you'll want to type this in the French
version. Once you see once we have the
French version selected it's a little
daunting because it then turns into a
blank page and you'll want to fill out
all the information for the French
version and once you're done you can go
to all posts to get an idea of all of
the posts that you need to translate. We
see all of them are already translated
in the default English language and then
from here you can click on the plus to
start translating it into the language
that you want. Now if you don't have time
to manually go through this process the
next method might work for you and that
is by installing the Google Language
Translator plugin. If we're adding this
plugin you won't need to have the
polylang plugin so let's go back to our
plugins area, installed plugins, delete
the polylang. I'm going to go up to plugins add new
and we're looking for Google Language
Translator. This is the translator that
we want so let's click install now. Once
it's installed you want to go ahead and
activate it. Now it's activated you can
either go to settings here or it's also
can be found under settings here. Making
sure that this is checked that means
that it would be activated and what you
can do is go down here and pick all of
the languages that you want to be
available for anybody who visits.
Scrolling down here you can choose to
show or hide the language switcher. We'll
keep that, you can also have a toolbar
and whether or not to show the widget
right now that we've set up all of our
settings let's go ahead and save our
changes and then we'll take a look at
our site and see it in action
and you see down here we have the translate so I
can click on French to have it
automatically translate in that language
and then you see the toolbar pop-up
appear. So there's a couple of really
simple and easy ways to create a
multilingual WordPress site. Did you learn
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