Comments on: Using WPMU to build multilingual websites

By: Amir Helzer

Amir Helzer — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:07:26 +0000

@Len, actually, you’d need to run your own blog (the wordpress.org) platform. I don’t think that any of this can run on the hosted version in wordpress.com.

Let me know if you find any way for doing this. I’d love to know about it.

By: Len

Len — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:04:47 +0000

This one makes me want to switch to wordpress. Blogger simply isn’t as “customizable”.

By: seo

seo — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:07:11 +0000

Thanks ypou for tht man!

By: haber

haber — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:34:39 +0000

I love word press :) very good template

By: Amir

Amir — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 11:31:32 +0000

Hi hamdan,

We use the WP XML-RPC calls to create and update posts on the different language blogs. These allow setting the publish date along with any other information.

Theme compatibility was never a problem in the blogs that have been translated with our system. Right now, we’re handling more than 500 blogs and didn’t ever need to worry about that. The fact that WP isn’t modified in any way to add multilingual support makes it indifferent to the theme.

The only thing that needs to be added to themes in order to make it truly multilingual are the language selectors. The translation plugin comes with that PHP function and it just needs to be inserted into header.php.

I completely agree with you that WPMU should have been the standard development branch and WP could have been a simple derivative.

By: hamdan

hamdan — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:37:14 +0000

my site is currently using a wordpress and a plugin to make it multilingual. this wpmu idea is good, but I think there will be some problems on how to synchronize the time of the post and the themes compatibility.

In my opinion, WPMU should be the main WordPress development path to encourage developers making themes/plugins compatible for WPMU. The single user version then will be the ‘lite version’ of the wordpress.

just my 2 cent :)

By: Wannes

Wannes — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:05:52 +0000

We used WPMU as a solution for a multi-language site ourselves (http://www.grande.be/).
It’s cool you guys get it now in a product :-)

For the WP core we are working and experimenting with a complete language plugin which has the following specifications:
*unlimitted translations
*translation of posts, pages, categories, tags,…
*multi-language permalink structure
*…

The release of the plugin will be in the beginning of Februari.

On our site http://motionmill.com/ you’ll find a demo.