Multilingual Content and WordPress

WordPress itself is available in more than 50 languages. If your language happens to be English or Mandarin, your content will be accessible to about one quarter of the world population. If you want to reach a larger audience, you will need to publish in multiple languages. How does WordPress fare in this case? Spoiler alert: not so well.

In this talk, we will outline the best practices involved in creating a multilingual site, then we will walk you through the benefits, drawbacks and pitfalls of current approaches to multilingual content with WordPress. Yes, we have (pretty much) tried them all. We hope that by the end of our talk, you will feel at ease if multilingual projects come your way.

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