WordPress site in two (or more) languages

I have a site in English and I need the same site in Spanish. Hmm. Before I just dive in, I’m thinking of my options.

Categories (Spanish / English and then subcategories for each; sidebar content (posts/pages) based on which category we’re in)
Pages: similar to categories: pages with sub-pages for each language
Google Translate: some sort of on-the-fly translation tool … ?
Duplicate WP install: a whole separate WP install for the Spanish site?

What have you done?

Bradley Charbonneau2009-12-11T12:51:48+01:00

I've done the big corporate thing. I've done the creative writer thing. Now I'm happily in the middle. I like to help small businesses who are interested in "working their website before their website works them." I'm also interested in creating beautiful sites with powerful WordPress themes. Google+

Michael McDonald December 12, 2009 at 8:46 am

For internationalization, I recommend using the qTranslate plug-in. It really simplifies the process of localizing content, though you have to be extra careful with paths in the WordPress template.
Bradley Charbonneau December 12, 2009 at 9:28 am

Whoa! That looks too good to be true. The plugin’s site shows just a little flag and voila, translated!

You may have just saved me a (1) full WP install or at least (2) mulitple post/category/page creation.

Thanks, Michael!
John Muldoon December 12, 2009 at 12:19 pm

Wow, that’s really great.

I ran across a few other plugins the other day that only looked OK. That one looks really good.
John Muldoon December 15, 2009 at 1:11 am

Hey Bradley,

Put up a link when you’ve implemented it. And let everyone know how it went on your end.

Cheers.

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