Wordpress in 2, 3... languages;

Why and how?

Martin Linkov – blog.favit.com

Do your homework:

• How many languages do I know (now, later) – scalability

• Who will write/translate geek or non-geek?

WPML

xLanguage

Πόσοι και από που θα με διαβάζουν, redirection (Country Code, IP)

Domains vs. Directories? Θέλω περισσότερα servers;

Choose wisely:

• Plugins vs. Multiple Installations

• if ($plugins == true) echo “Check support, showcases";

!! Back it UP (Test Blog) !!

*Ask Google, use forums, learn basic PHP, CSS, HTML, MySQL

Inside the plug ins

<span lang="el">WordCamp Θεσσαλονίκη</span>

Inside WPML

Roadmap, WP Mu

The magic of others vs. your Knowledge?

Performance and SpeedRevisions, DB size, Site Load

Some Plug ins, ideas:

WPML, qTranslate, xTranslate, Buddy Press Multilingual, Gengo

TEDxBG.org jquery solution

What Else?

• Context

• Meta, SEO, RSS, Sitemaps

http://xiligroup.com/?feed=rss2&lang=en_us vs http://blog.favit.com/gr/feed/

• Redirections

RewriteCond %{ENV:GEOIP_COUNTRY_CODE} ^GR$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://blog.favit.com/gr/$1 [R=301,L]

PHP MySQL redirections IPinfoDb

The favit.com choice:

Different installations