Want to use WordPress in two languages?
If you have a bilingual audience, it’s a good idea to offer your content in both languages so that all your visitors have a great experience. Beyond that, translating your content also gives you a chance to reach more people in search engines and on social media, which is another huge benefit.
While WordPress doesn’t have a built-in feature to help you create a multilingual site, you can use a WordPress translation plugin to offer your site in two languages (or even more languages, if needed).
In this post, we’ll show you step-by-step how to offer WordPress in two languages using the free TranslatePress plugin. By the end of this post, you’ll be able to easily translate all of your content using a simple visual editor like this one:
Let’s get started…
What You Need to Offer WordPress in Two Languages
As we mentioned in the introduction, if you want to use two languages on the front-end of your WordPress site (the part that your visitors will see), you’ll need a WordPress translation plugin.
Note – if you just want to use two languages in the backend WordPress dashboard, we also have a guide on how to set that up.
TranslatePress is a WordPress translation plugin that comes in both a free version at WordPress.org and a premium version with some extra features. It lets you translate 100% of your site’s content into one or more new languages.
One of the most unique things about TranslatePress is its visual translation editor, which you saw above.
Another unique thing is that it lets you translate 100% of your site’s content right out of the box. It doesn’t matter whether the content comes from the WordPress editor, a plugin (like a page builder), or your theme…you’ll be able to manage it all right from the visual editor.
While you’ll be able to follow this tutorial and translate WordPress in two languages using just the free version of the plugin, the paid version adds some additional search engine optimization (SEO) features, support for unlimited languages, and lots of other useful additions.
TranslatePress Multilingual
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