{"id":23237,"date":"2018-08-27T12:05:02","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T12:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpjournalist.wpmudev.host\/?p=23237"},"modified":"2021-09-14T15:24:05","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T15:24:05","slug":"translate-a-website-into-multiple-languages-with-wpml-plugin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpjournalist.nl\/en\/translate-a-website-into-multiple-languages-with-wpml-plugin\/","title":{"rendered":"Translate a website into multiple languages with WPML plugin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you want to translate your website into multiple languages with WPML? This would seem like a good moment because the world is becoming more and more international. The world is at your feet…<\/p>\n

Products and services you sell in the Netherlands can also very well be sold abroad. And vice versa more and more companies are introducing their products on the Dutch market.<\/p>\n

If you have international ambitions, then it\u2019s good to translate your website into multiple languages such as English, French or Spanish. And why not Rumanian or Portuguese?<\/p>\n

International companies, government institutions, but also a lot smaller organizations are translating their website into different languages more often. Google Translate<\/a> is often used to translate, but this is still not a serious option. The quality is often not acceptable for most organizations.<\/p>\n

With WPML you basically create double pages, one in Dutch and one in the other language. You will need to enter the foreign language manually.<\/p>\n

WPML plugin<\/h2>\n

Nowadays there are different good translation plugins on the market which you can implement in WordPress. Think of Polylang, qTranslateX or WPML Multilangual plugin<\/a>. This last one is an often used plugin to translate websites. I will show you how you can use WPML to translate your website.<\/p>\n

In contrast to the other mentioned plugins, you can\u2019t download WPML in the WordPress catalogue. You can only download WPML through their own website<\/a> against payment. For 1 website you only pay a few tenners. It is an often used plugin which is also recommended by ThemeForest themes.<\/p>\n

You should know it is quite a heavy plugin which can influence the loading speed of your website, but this is something that applies to most translation plugins. If you are not satisfied with it, you can always use the \u201830 day money back\u2019 guarantee.<\/p>\n

You don\u2019t want to pay for a translation plugin and you are looking for an alternative? Then I will give you a couple of suggestions in the article The best 5 translation plugins for your WordPress website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I use the WPML translation plugin myself and my customers and for my own website which I have completely translated into English. I find it a nice plugin and you can basically translate any text on the website with it. The plugin has not been installed on roughly 500.000 websites for nothing. It is the most popular plugin at this moment.<\/p>\n

Well, how does it work to translate your website with WPML? Here we go…<\/p>\n

Download WPML<\/h2>\n

First you go to the WPML website<\/a> to download the plugin. You can choose from three different subscriptions. The cheapest is only a few tenners, so that\u2019s ok for a website.<\/p>\n

You need two plugins from WPML, Multilingual CMS and String Translation. Then you install the plugins and activate them.<\/p>\n

\"two-plugins-WPML\"<\/p>\n

Then you will see a wizard in the dashboard with which you can install the WPML plugin step by step.<\/p>\n

\"WPML-set\"<\/p>\n

After you have clicked on \u2018set up WPML\u2019 you will see:<\/p>\n

\"configuration-WPML\"<\/p>\n

You need to for example choose the language into which you want to translate the website:<\/p>\n

\"WPML-configureren\"<\/p>\n

You check off English and then the website can be translated into English. This way you can add more languages if you want to.<\/p>\n

\"taal-kiezen-WPML\"<\/p>\n

Wizard, you will get the question at the end to add a registration key. You can get this by logging on with WPML. At \u2018My Sites\u2019 you can collect the key and connect it to your website:<\/p>\n

\"registration-key-voor-WPML\"<\/p>\n

Translate a website into multiple languages with WPML<\/h2>\n

Great, the website is now connected and you can start with translating your website into multiple languages with WPML. You go to a Dutch page and in the right column a separate block with \u2018Language\u2019 appears. You press on the plus (see red arrow) and you will land on a new page. This is the page you can provide with English text.<\/p>\n

\"nederlandse-vertaling-WPML\"<\/p>\n

You will land on an empty page and then you add the English text. Headers, text, but also the images need to be added again. This is quite some work.<\/p>\n

\"language-kopyIt is best to do the following:<\/em><\/p>\n

First I am going to copy the text from the Dutch to the English page. This ensures the images are automatically placed on the English page.<\/p>\n

It goes like this:<\/p>\n

You check off the following:<\/p>\n

Copy uploaded media from the original<\/strong><\/p>\n

Then you click on:<\/p>\n

Copy content from Dutch<\/strong><\/p>\n

Then all Dutch text and images are copied. You can then remove the Dutch text and replace it with the English text. So the more advanced copy and paste work.<\/p>\n

You leave the images. You could optimize the images by adding an English Alt-tag to them. This way you ensure that the images are optimized with SEP for the English language.<\/p>\n

AND<\/strong>: Don\u2019t forget to change the internal links to other articles within your website into the English URLs.<\/p>\n

Finally you need to add the meta description and the focus keyword in English to optimize the site.<\/p>\n

And then it looks like this:<\/p>\n