Blogger Resources
Writing about WPML? That’s great!ย We put together some resources to make your job easier.
WPML Logo
You’re welcome to our logo. We recommend that you download and host it yourself, so that if these images move or change, you story remains intact.
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The Origins of WPML
WPML’s architecture is based on Drupal’s multilingual system. This means that each object has one language and translations are linked together.
For example, when you translate a post using WPML, you actually create a new post with a different language. WPML holds a table that holds the language of everything in your site. Elements that have the same translation ID are considered as translations. It sounds a bit complex, but it completely transparent to both users and themes.
WPML plays nice with WordPress themes. Many themes allow users to choose “special” pages or categories (like in home-page sliders). WPML will automatically modify these pages, so that the right ones are displayed in every language. We learned to do this from Drupal.
ICanLocalize, WPML’s Sponsors
WPML is built and maintained by ICanLocalize, a translation service for small businesses.
We “discovered” that WordPress is a wonderful tool for building websites. It’s especially useful for small and medium businesses, running on a tight budget.
So, we’ve built WPML. WPML makes it possible to build great multilingual sites with WordPress. It allows people to translate themselves and also get professional translation from ICanLocalize. This is our business model and it’s working out pretty well.
Need Anything Else?
You’re welcome to contact us or connect on Twitter.
Be sure to tell us if you write about WPML and we’ll add your post to WPML on the Web.
5 Responses to “Blogger Resources”
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marco says: May 4, 2011 at 3:15 pm
Ho un problema, se attivo il plugin feedwordpress, entra in conflitto con wpml. Come posso risolvere ??
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Vaibhav Shah says: December 21, 2011 at 10:08 am
Hello !
We would like to know if we can develop a website using WPML which can be in English & Marathi language. Since we will have exact page contents for each language, we would like to use our custom translations for each page. Is that possible?
Awaiting your reply.
Best Regards,
VaibhaV ShahReply-
amir says: December 21, 2011 at 9:54 pm
You can add any language to a site with WPML. Marathi is not among the list of built-in languages, but you can add it yourself. After you install WPML, go to WPML->Languages and click on ‘edit languages’. Then, add any language you like.
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Tony says: January 26, 2012 at 3:15 pm
Hello,
we are debating whether to have multiple instances of our WP blog for various country sites, or have a single instanace with multiple languages instead using WPML.
THere is also the dilemma for multi-domain urls and url re-writes that may be needed e.g. www.abc.com.mx would be www.abc.com/blog/mx or similar.
We don’t want to have duplicate content anywhere on our blog, so I’m wondering with WPML can you select whether to have various selected articles appear on the various language sites or not? This way you can restrict the various content writers and translators to have unique content on their country blogs separate from the default English Blog?
Thanks,
Tony U.Reply-
Amir says: January 27, 2012 at 9:37 am
The approach that we took for displaying the same content on different languages is to duplicate it. WPML can do this automatically for you, so there’s no pain in this process.
We experimented with other logic that would display the same content on different languages but it was too complex and too DB-intense.
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