From 0 to 4500$/month with a new WordPress multilingual plugin
Key learnings from launching TranslatePress, a WordPress multilingual plugin that anyone can use The WordPress plugin ecosystem is quickly becoming a very crowded space. It’s getting harder and harder to get noticed and build something people will use, even more so pay for. Over the course of 12 months, TranslatePress grew to over 20K active […]
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Automatic User Language Detection in TranslatePress
Redirecting visitors to their own language preference based on browser language or IP address is a feature often requested by our TranslatePress users. This can be easily achieved using the Automatic User Language Detection add-on. Below we’ll go through the reasons for using automatic user language detection as well as how it’s implemented in TranslatePress. Why […]
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TranslatePress Launch – From concept to product
[UPDATE]: We’re now at 60,000+ active installs on WordPress.org and passed 10000$/month in revenue. Sign up to our newsletter and browse our transparency reports to find out what happened since our TranslatePress multilingual plugin launch. When you launch a new project there’s always a buzz of excitement, hope, relief, but also fear of failure and […]
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Top WordPress Translation Plugins Compared Based On Page Load Time
One of the main concerns when choosing a WordPress translation plugin is how it affects your website speed. A slower website will negatively affect your page rankings, traffic and eventually revenue. Therefore we decided to perform several speed tests on some of the most popular WordPress translation plugins just to give you an idea of […]
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Translate Dynamic Strings in WordPress
Sometimes it can be quite challenging to translate dynamic strings in WordPress. And this is for two main reasons: Themes like Hestia make use of the WordPress Customizer interface to quickly build a beautiful front page containing a slider, various columns for information, a list of WooCommerce products if it’s needed as well as a […]
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WordPress in More Languages – Getting Started
WordPress by default is NOT multilingual. You can set up your language when installing it, but that just localizes your site to a language so translating WordPress in more languages is not something as straightforward as publishing a post. Because of this, adding multilingual functionality can be done through a translation plugin, setting up a WordPress […]
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