Multilingual WordPress Multisite Network

WordPress is hugely popular, powering over 23% of the entire internet today. As you can imagine, a good portion of these websites are not in English. Over the past few years I’ve had the opportunity to work on more multilingual sites in WordPress. One thing I have learned is that WordPress Multisite is a perfect fit for a network of multilingual sites. Each site in the network can be configured for a different language, making the administration much easier.

One of the big challenges I’ve faced is the relationship between the content across the language sites in a network. Imagine having an About page on your English site and an About page on your German site. Wouldn’t it be awesome if WordPress knew that these two pages were related? Well, now you can with an awesome plugin called Multilingual Press.

I had a chance to sit down with Caspar Hübinger at WordCamp London for a demo and I was blown away. Multilingual Press lets you create relationships between sites in your Multisite network, set a main language for each site, and start writing. When editing a piece of content connected to multiple languages, you can edit all of the language content on the same edit screen, as shown in the screenshot below. The content will then be updated in the appropriate language site in the network.

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If you work with WordPress in different languages you need to check out Multilingual Press. It’s a multilingual game changer!