multilingual woocommerce

WooCommerce Multilingual

sell global with WordPress WooCommerce and WPML

About me and the companyDat Hoang

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● WPML● Toolset plugins● ICanLocalize

Agenda

● Why E-Commerce Multilingual● Challenges in WooCommerce Multilingual

sites● Introduction to WooCommerce Multilingual

plugin

Why E-Commerce Multilingual

● Enhance your customer reachsell products to all customers, irrespective of the language they speak

● Increase competitiveness

● Gain business credibility and customer trust

● Be professional Keep all your multilingual elements in different languages, including products

● Let yourself grow discovering different customers needs

Getting ready for multilingual E-Commerce

What matters for site visitors● each single page in

visitor’s language● language switching

made easily ● site for different

languages on separate URLs

● multi-currencies

What to translate● pages listing all

products● product description● product categories● product fields● product attributes

(size, weight, ...)● currencies● images

Getting ready for multilingual E-Commerce

What matters for WordPress editors● users expect to

create the store once, in site main language

● then they should only care of product translations

● product translation management should be easy both to configure and to translate

Easy product translation management

● configuration - all product elements which require translation gathered in one place

● filter options to see missing translations

● preview original language when translating

● flexibility to translate all product information including currency, attributes, images

● manual work limited to minimum

WooCommerce Multilingual

What you will need● WooCommerce● WPML 2.9.3 +

○ String Translation○ Translation

Management○ Media Translation

● WooCommerce Multilingual 3.0+

it’s free in wordpress.org

How to configure

● make sure you have WooCommerce standard pages in your main language

● more infodocs.woothemes.com/document/woocommerce-pages/

WooCommerce Multilingual - where to start

● go to WPML -> WooCommerce Multilingual to manage your product translations

WooCommerce Multilingual general settings

plugin helps to● check if you have all

needed plugins installed

● create WooCommerce store pages for missing languages

● detect taxonomies missing translations

Translating categories, tags, attributes

● WooCommerce Multilingual can automatically detect WooCommerce:○ product categories,○ tags, ○ shipping classes,○ and attributes

for translation

Size and Color tabs added automatically

Product translations

Product translations

● you can manage all product translations in one panel

● plugin will identify products which miss translations

● easy access to product title, content, excerpt, images translations

● you can search products

● you can filter products by category

● you can view products in all languages or limit it to a specific language only

Front-end view (Vietnamese)

Front-end view (English)

WooCommerce Multilingual - other features

● support for WooCommerce product variations

● automatic inventory updates

● support for multi-currency

● Vietnamese admin interface

● two product translation interfaces to choose:○ translation table (as

presented before)○ native WooCommerce

product editing screen

Support and documentation

● WooCommerce Multilingual support at wpml.org

● support at wordpress.org

● documentationwpml.org/documentation/ related-projects/ woocommerce-multilingual/

WooCommerce extensions compatibility

● WPML makers work extensively with WooCommerce team to make WooCommerce extensions compatible with WooCommerce Multilingual plugin

Multilingual ready● Tab Manager● Subscriptions● Table rate shipping

http://wpml.org/2014/02/woocommerce-extensions-wpml-tab-manager-subscription-table-rate-shipping/

Real sites with WooCommerce Multilingual?

● http://www.coupure-art.ch/● http://luontofurniture.com● http://www.ceremonietea.co.il/● and many more...

coupure-art.ch [German]

Source: http://www.coupure-art.ch/ by Neil Matthews, WebPolyglot.com

coupure-art.ch [English]

Source: http://www.coupure-art.ch/ by Neil Matthews, WebPolyglot.com

ceremonietea.co.il [English]

Source: ceremonietea.co.il by Yardena Epstein

ceremonietea.co.il [Hebrew]

Source: ceremonietea.co.il by Yardena Epstein

DiscussionQ & A

Big Thanks!Dat HoangCommunity & Support Vietnam E: dat.h@icanlocalize.comW: wpml.org | wp-types.com | icanlocalize.com

Saigon, April 19, 2014