Post on 03-Jun-2020
State of Multilingualism in WordPress
Translate Plugins/Themes
Content
You will need a plugin
9XXth Month 20XX
Benefits and Downsides
Benefits
● Easy to use
10XXth Month 20XX
Benefits and Downsides
Benefits
● Easy to use
● Other Plugins are aware of them
11XXth Month 20XX
Benefits and Downsides
Benefits
● Easy to use
● Other Plugins are aware of them
● Huge Community
12XXth Month 20XX
Benefits and Downsides
Benefits
● Easy to use
● Other Plugins are aware of them
● Huge Community
Downsides
● Can slow down WordPress
13XXth Month 20XX
Benefits and Downsides
Benefits
● Easy to use
● Other Plugins are aware of them
● Huge Community
Downsides
● Can slow down WordPress
● Vendor Lock-in
14XXth Month 20XX
Benefits and Downsides
Benefits
● Easy to use
● Other Plugins are aware of them
● Huge Community
Downsides
● Can slow down WordPress
● Vendor Lock-in
● Everyone can translate everything
Multisite
17XXth Month 20XX
Benefits and Downsides
Benefits
● Close to Core as possible
18XXth Month 20XX
Benefits and Downsides
Benefits
● Close to Core as possible
● Separation of Language Sites
19XXth Month 20XX
Benefits and Downsides
Benefits
● Close to Core as possible
● Separation of Language Sites
● Possibility to use different Themes
20XXth Month 20XX
Benefits and Downsides
Benefits
● Close to Core as possible
● Separation of Language Sites
● Possibility to use different Themes
Downsides
● Other plugins could cause issues
21XXth Month 20XX
Benefits and Downsides
Benefits
● Close to Core as possible
● Separation of Language Sites
● Possibility to use different Themes
Downsides
● Other plugins could cause issues
● Harder to grasp
22XXth Month 20XX
Benefits and Downsides
Benefits
● Close to Core as possible
● Separation of Language Sites
● Possibility to use different Themes
Downsides
● Other plugins could cause issues
● Harder to grasp
● You want to test plugin updates
What about Core?
https://make.wordpress.org/core/2015/06/29/wordcamp-europe-2015-multilingual-discussion/
Gutenberg
26XXth Month 20XX
4 Phases of Gutenberg
● Kicked of in 2016
● Released in 2018
● https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg
Long road ahead
Gutenberg
Do you really need to translate?
29XXth Month 20XX
Need for Translation
● Are you really prepared for this market?
30XXth Month 20XX
Need for Translation
● Are you really prepared for this market?
● Difference between Localization and
Internationalization
31XXth Month 20XX
Need for Translation
● Are you really prepared for this market?
● Difference between Localization and
Internationalization
● Sell a product in french and answer questions in
english?
32XXth Month 20XX
Need for Translation
● Are you really prepared for this market?
● Difference between Localization and
Internationalization
● Sell a product in french and answer questions in
english?
● Difference between Translation and Copywriting in
another language
Computers should help!
Questions?
Robert Windisch
Twitter: @nullbytesWordPress Slack: nullbyte