I have a website mywebsite.com, I already have wordpress blog installed on mywebsite.com/blog; now I have a human french translated version of my website here fr.mywebsite.com, now I'm stuck between two choices:
1. Installing wordpress again on fr.website.com/blog and hire a french blog writer to take charge.
2. OR, Continue with the already existing mywebsite.com/blog and then get a machine translator to automatically switch between languages.
I want to know if it is Ok to have wordpress installed twice on my domain (1 on the main domain and 1 on the subdomain).
I really need the public's opinion to help me decide because I really want to search/google about this, but I didn't even know what to search for in the first place. Thanks.
A human translation maybe is better and you can have Taylor made content for each language. There is no problem having a second installation to the same domain.
You can also check for a multi site solution or even simpler using a multi language plugin.
Finally there is always the custom multilingual solution but it depends on your coding experience.
Of course this is my point of view
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I'm researching to see if building a full website for a hotel be a good idea to do on WordPress.
I read that wordpress is okay but there are better options.
I want to design and code my own front end look to the website, but have the backend on a stable platform that can take all the reservations seamlessly.
My main concern is to be able to have a backup of all the files and easily switch to another server in case something goes wrong.
I can host the website on my server or host with the service you suggest that comes with the platform all together.
Any ideas and/or suggestions are greatly appreciated!
There are other options, no doubt, but yes, it can and is really possible to build it using WordPress as CMS.
If you want to design and code your own theme, you'll need to study the WordPress Theme Structure and, since you'll build it by yourself, you'll also need to develop plugins to create custom post types (aka CPT) to make the hotel management easier on the WP back-end.
About the theme structure, files, child themes and everything, I'd recommend you to read https://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development
About the plugins development: https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/
About Custom Post Types: https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/post-types/registering-custom-post-types/
About the backup: it's super easy and you can even make a full backup using free plugins via back-end. But if the site goes down you can easily do it via FTP downloading only wp-content folder and the database. It's really simple to migrate from one WordPress to another, or from host to host.
About the hosting, you'll need to use a server if you want to build this project. There's a difference between wordpress.com and wordpress.org
The .com is simpler, you are not able to build everything you want. The .org is the open source project, which you get the files, upload to your server and connect to database (MariaDB or MySQL). Most hosts offer automatic installation for WordPress and, from there, you can change whatever you want and need.
Note: many developers create CPTs INSIDE the theme's code, but this is not recommended by WP as you can see in We recommend that you put custom post types in a plugin rather than a theme. This ensures that user content remains portable even if they change their theme.
WP is not really hard, after 1 week studying you'll see yourself getting over most difficulties. Even if it takes longer, don't give up. There's a huge community to help you with WP questions.
Hope it helps and I'm sorry my bad writing, I'm not an english native speaker.
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I would like to have an English version of my Wordpress site (which is already up and running) and also a French version of the same site. However, I do not want to automatically translate everything with a generator but translate it myself into French. The problem is there is also a Woocommerce store on the site and that, along with all of it's elements, emails sent to customers, etc, will also have to be translated.
Does anyone have thoughts on the best way to approach doing this? Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
The must-have free plugin which will help you do the job is Polylang. Coupled with Polylang theme strings, you will be allowed to automatically detect strings in your wordpress installation you wish to translate. Polylang has great support that will help you easily configure language switcher on your website. You could also take a look at LoCo Translate, a very nice plugin which allows you to translate your wordpress installation.
please help !
We have developed two website for one same organization (two different businesses) which both are in English language.
Now the requirement is, it should be converted to WordPress and should be like as follow.
www.company.com (Home page will have switch for both sub sites)
1. business1.com (arabic/english)
2. business2.com (arabic/english)
How can i do this in Wordpress? how to categorize both site in one WP and again how can I make two languages in each site.
I am sorry we are not live yet to show anything, working on local host
Try multi language plugin or wp localization.
That should solve it.
you can use he WordPress Multilingual Plugin from http://wpml.org/, i had used it and it is really good.
There are already several questions with a similar title, but they received either no answers, or the answers were too specific.
I would like to integrate a blog into a website, so that content can be updated using a simple interface, e.g. from a wordpress/blogger/... account. I find the solutions with iframe cumbersome and unprofessional and I am not sure that modding a wordpress/blogger/... theme gives satisfactory results either, plus, I am not fond of running a whole wordpress engine on my website.
I build my light-weight websites from scratch (in gedit, Notepad for Linux), so I am not tied to any particular system or software and have full control over the layout.
Do you have any suggestions for achieving a satisfactory solution? Will I have to learn ASP.NET and IIS?
Many thanks.
WordPress is a good solution for your system. It's easy to install and use.
Requirements from WordPress Codex:
WordPress server requirements for Version 3.2:
o PHP version 5.2.4 or greater
o MySQL version 5.0.15 or greater
o (Optional)(Required for MultiSite) Apache mod_rewrite module (for clean URIs known as Permalinks)
It is also required that you install it on Apache. So, no need to learn ASP.NET and IIS.
If you want to have a blog, just pust the wordpress files in a folder called blog and install it there. You will then be able to access the website from yourdomain.com/blog/
Perhaps, I think integrating WP will be the best solution.. Integrating WordPress.
And for the IIS alternative, ChiliASP can be an alternative for IIS on Linux, but costs $$$ and I heard it wasn't working well. Alternative to that, learn PHP/MySQL. You'll never regret learning it, and you'll never go back to IIS/ASP. Linux/GNU opens doors like you wont beleive.
I'm curios about the best way to make a multilingual wp site. For example I want my site to be available in English and French. So far I worked with 2 wordpress installs, but I wonder if there is a way to make a multilingual wp site using just a single wordpress install.
Yes there is a very good way to create multilingual sites with a single WordPress install.
The plugin WPML (WordPress Multilingual) is a very well designed and implemented add-on. It's fairly easy to get started and it makes it really easy to manage two sets of content.
I say it's 'fairly easy' not because the plugin is excessively complex, but because you need to think carefully about how you want to manage your content before you start. However their documentation is pretty good and there are some helpful tips as you go through the settings.
I have no bias to recommend WPML - but I have created numerous commercial sites using it (some with two languages, some in 5 or more).
Let me know if you need more pointers...
Philip
Yah , You can create Multilingual website in single wordpress installation.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-multilingual/
its free and easy to install and use.
http://wpml.org
You need to buy this one , but its nice.