{"id":406,"date":"2019-11-24T13:06:24","date_gmt":"2019-11-24T13:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helpdoc.themearile.com\/?docs=general\/making-a-multilingual-wordpress-website-using-polylang"},"modified":"2020-03-14T09:11:41","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T09:11:41","slug":"making-a-multilingual-wordpress-website-using-polylang","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/helpdoc.themearile.com\/?docs=general\/making-a-multilingual-wordpress-website-using-polylang","title":{"rendered":"Making a multilingual WordPress website using Polylang"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/helpdoc.themearile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/polylang-multilingual-plugin-1024x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helpdoc.themearile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/polylang-multilingual-plugin-1024x480.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/helpdoc.themearile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/polylang-multilingual-plugin-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helpdoc.themearile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/polylang-multilingual-plugin-768x360.jpg 768w, https:\/\/helpdoc.themearile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/polylang-multilingual-plugin.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> Firstly, you need&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/polylang\/\">to download and install<\/a>&nbsp;the Polylang plugin. when you activate this plugin, you\u2019ll see the Languages tab below Settings in the navigation menu. Click on it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here, you can add any number of languages you want for your multilingual WordPress site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"463\" src=\"https:\/\/helpdoc.themearile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/add-languages-1024x463.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helpdoc.themearile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/add-languages-1024x463.png 1024w, https:\/\/helpdoc.themearile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/add-languages-300x136.png 300w, https:\/\/helpdoc.themearile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/add-languages-768x347.png 768w, https:\/\/helpdoc.themearile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/add-languages.png 1340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">String Translation<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, Go to Strings translations and you\u2019ll see all the strings of your site here you can add the particular language string in language options.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"465\" src=\"https:\/\/helpdoc.themearile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/string-translation-1024x465.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helpdoc.themearile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/string-translation-1024x465.png 1024w, https:\/\/helpdoc.themearile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/string-translation-300x136.png 300w, https:\/\/helpdoc.themearile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/string-translation-768x348.png 768w, https:\/\/helpdoc.themearile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/string-translation.png 1351w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, you can modify the URL for multilingual content. You can also activate the detect browser language setting. This will allow the website to change the language to the visitor&#8217;s preferred language used in the browser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/helpdoc.themearile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/url-modification-1024x444.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helpdoc.themearile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/url-modification-1024x444.png 1024w, https:\/\/helpdoc.themearile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/url-modification-300x130.png 300w, https:\/\/helpdoc.themearile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/url-modification-768x333.png 768w, https:\/\/helpdoc.themearile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/url-modification.png 1351w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Translate Posts<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>To add multilingual content or to translate old post you need to go to the post editor. First, select the default language and type in the post content. You can see the flags of the languages you added earlier and the&nbsp;<strong>plus signs<\/strong>&nbsp;beside them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"446\" src=\"https:\/\/helpdoc.themearile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/post-1024x446.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helpdoc.themearile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/post-1024x446.png 1024w, https:\/\/helpdoc.themearile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/post-300x131.png 300w, https:\/\/helpdoc.themearile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/post-768x334.png 768w, https:\/\/helpdoc.themearile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/post.png 1356w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, click on the plus sign to type in the translations of the default post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"454\" src=\"https:\/\/helpdoc.themearile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/post-translation-1024x454.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helpdoc.themearile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/post-translation-1024x454.png 1024w, https:\/\/helpdoc.themearile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/post-translation-300x133.png 300w, https:\/\/helpdoc.themearile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/post-translation-768x341.png 768w, https:\/\/helpdoc.themearile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/post-translation.png 1346w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Translate <strong>Categories<\/strong>&nbsp;and Tags<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>You can also translate all the tags and categories used for your theme blog. Go to&nbsp;<strong>Posts &gt;&gt; Categories<\/strong>&nbsp;and click on the&nbsp;<strong>plus icons<\/strong>&nbsp;to translate them one by one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"415\" src=\"https:\/\/helpdoc.themearile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/multilingual-wordpress-site-pic-1024x415.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helpdoc.themearile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/multilingual-wordpress-site-pic-1024x415.png 1024w, https:\/\/helpdoc.themearile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/multilingual-wordpress-site-pic-300x122.png 300w, https:\/\/helpdoc.themearile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/multilingual-wordpress-site-pic-768x311.png 768w, https:\/\/helpdoc.themearile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/multilingual-wordpress-site-pic.png 1342w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Displaying the language selector<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Using this plugin, you can allow your visitors to select the language in which they want to read your post. Click on&nbsp;<strong>Appearance &gt;&gt; Widgets<\/strong>. You can see the Language Switcher widget there. Then, drag and drop the widget to the widget area. On the checkboxes, check the Displays language names option.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"447\" src=\"https:\/\/helpdoc.themearile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/language-swithcer.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helpdoc.themearile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/language-swithcer.png 1024w, https:\/\/helpdoc.themearile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/language-swithcer-300x131.png 300w, https:\/\/helpdoc.themearile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/language-swithcer-768x335.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":365,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-406","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpdoc.themearile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/docs\/406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpdoc.themearile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpdoc.themearile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpdoc.themearile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpdoc.themearile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/helpdoc.themearile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/docs\/406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":453,"href":"https:\/\/helpdoc.themearile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/docs\/406\/revisions\/453"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpdoc.themearile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/docs\/365"}],"next":[{"title":"How to Add Custom CSS in the Additional CSS box","link":"https:\/\/helpdoc.themearile.com\/?docs=general\/how-to-add-custom-css-in-the-additional-css-box","href":"https:\/\/helpdoc.themearile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/docs\/1387"}],"prev":[{"title":"How to create a multilingual WordPress site using WPML?","link":"https:\/\/helpdoc.themearile.com\/?docs=general\/how-to-create-a-multilingual-wordpress-site","href":"https:\/\/helpdoc.themearile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/docs\/368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpdoc.themearile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpdoc.themearile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fdoc_tag&post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}