Hi, guys.
Today, we’re going to see how you can make your WordPress website multilingual.
Let’s say you have a website,
And, you want to give your visitors an option to view your
site in their preferred languages.
You can do that easily by watching this video.
So, after watching this video,
You will be able to add a translate option like this on your website.
Now, when someone clicks on it, they will be able to choose a language,
and your site will be translated to their preferred language.
Okay.
I’m Bryan from website learners,
and let’s get started.
First, let’s see the website which I built using WordPress.
Here it is.
Now, to make our WordPress site multilingual,
We’re going to do 2 steps.
The first step is to install the GTranslate plugin in WordPress.
So, to install the plugin,
Let’s go to our WordPress dashboard.
Now go to Plugins, and click “Add New.”
Here, search for a plugin called “GTranslate.”
And, you will get this plugin.
Now, this is the plugin which will help us translate our
website into multiple languages.
So, to install this plugin,
Let’s click “Install Now.”
And then click “Activate.”
Now, we have successfully installed the GTranslate plugin in WordPress.
Okay.
So, once you’ve installed the plugin,
We can go to the second step,
Which is to add the translate option to your website.
Once you add this option,
Your visitors will be able to choose and view the site in
their your preferred language.
So, to add the translate option,
Just click “Settings,”
And here, select the languages in which you want your
visitors to view your website.
So, I’m going to select the languages.
Okay.
Now, once you have selected the languages,
Next, you need to choose where you want to display the
translate option on your website.
So, to choose that,
Just click here.
Now, if you want to display the translate option on your menu like this,
Select “Primary Menu.”
And, click “Save Changes.”
Now, the translate option will be added to our website,
And our visitors can easily view the site in their preferred languages
So, to check that,
Let’s go to our site and click “Refresh.”
Now, you can see that we have got the translate option on our site.
Now, if a visitor clicks here and selects a language,
You can see that our site has been translated to that particular language.
Okay.
This is how you can make your WordPress website multilingual.
And let your visitors view the site in their preferred language.
Next, let’s see how you can add this translate option
to your footer section, like this.
So, to add the translate option to the footer,
Let’s go back to our WordPress dashboard.
Now, go to “Appearance”
Then, click on “widgets” and it will take you to this page.
Here, you can see the footer section.
Now to add the translate option to your footer,
Just drag this “GTranslate” widget, and drop it here.
And as you can see,
The "GTranslate" widget is added
Now, Click "Done"
and the translate option will be added to your footer section.
Now, if we go back to our site and click “Refresh,”
You can see that we have got the translate option in our footer section.
And, the visitor can change our site’s language by clicking here.
So, this is how you can add the translate option to your footer.
So, now you know how to make your WordPress website multilingual.
Next, let’s say a person from France wants to view your website,
Now, by default, their browser language will be French.
But when they visit your site, it will be in English.
Now, instead of making the visitor select the language as French manually,
What if you want to automatically change it to the visitors preferred language
which is french?
So, next, let’s see how you can automatically translate your website
to the viewer’s browser language. So, to do that,
Let’s go back to our plugin settings.
Here, we have an option to automatically switch our
website to the browser language.
So, let’s click here to enable the option.
And then, click “Save Changes.”
Now, the visitors will be able to view your site in their
default browser language.
Now, let’s say a visitor who has French as their browser
language wants to visit your site.
Now, if they go to their browser,
And enter our domain name,
You can see that our site has been automatically translated to French,
without selecting it manually.
So, this is how you can automatically translate your site to the
viewer’s default browser language.
Okay.
Next, let’s see how you can display the languages in
their native names, like this.
So, to display the languages in their native names,
Let’s go to our plugin settings.
Now, select this option to show the native language names.
And then click “Save Changes.”
Now, lets go back to our website
and click “Refresh,”
Now if we click here
You can see that the languages are displayed in their native names.
Okay.
Now, to make this option more clear and user-friendly,
We can display the country flags next to the language names, like this.
So, to do that,
Let’s go back to our plugin settings,
And, go here
Now, to display the flags,
Just select this option
And then click “Save Changes.”
So now the flags will be added next to the language
names on our translate option.
So, to check that,
Let’s go to our website and click “Refresh.”
Now click here
And, you can see that the flags are displayed next to the language names.
And, it makes the option look more clear and user friendly.
Okay.
So, that’s it, guys.
This is how you can make your WordPress website multilingual.
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Thanks for watching.
I’ll see you in the next video.
Take care.
Bye-bye.