June 19, 2017 — Launching a multilingual website might sound ambitious, but it’s well within your grasp, especially with WordPress. Implementing a multilingual WordPress website can expand your reach exponentially if you implement it correctly.

During this talk, we’ll cover a few options to accomplish the task, go over a few items you’ll need to consider, and go through a quick demo and/or case study.

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Why one should (or shouldn’t) consider making a site multilingual
The various options for making a site multilingual, what’s involved, the pros and cons
Additional things to consider (plugin compatibility, SEO, etc)

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April 2, 2017 — WordPress powers more than every fourth of all websites in the world, in one or more of the 6,500+ world languages. WordPress itself does not allow for multilingual content, though, so that’s where plugins come in handy. One of these is MultilingualPress: THE multisite-based free open source plugin for multilingual websites.

In this talk, Thorsten provides a short introduction to both MultilingualPress and WordPress multisite. By means of several user stories, he then explains how to set up your multilingual WordPress website with MultilingualPress.

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February 13, 2017 — Esta charla está centrada en un caso de estudio de una comunidad multilingüe que propone crear una base de datos a partir de entrevistas con testigos oculares de eventos históricos. Basado en esto y con traductores voluntarios, se busca que el registro sea universal. Además, para entrar en contexto se hará una breve mención de otras comunidades multilingües como son los Polyglots o el GlotPress como herramienta.

February 7, 2017 — Internationalization, localization and making your site multilingual the proper way to reach more people.

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January 22, 2017 — Multilingual Wordpress. Lecture held at 4th WordPress Meetup in Nis, Serbia. Official hashtag #WPNis

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December 4, 2016 — I recently built wpzoo.ch to sell a few WordPress products. It is available in English and German.
I would cover the challenges and decisions that I needed to make and how it has worked out for us.

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October 17, 2016 — As today, WordPress itself doesn’t bring you the possibility to get your site Multilingual, Andrés is talking about the current status of WordPress Multilingual and the different possibilities available today.

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October 6, 2016 — WordPress wielojęzyczny czyli korzyści płynące z posiadania strony internetowej lub sklepu on-line w wielu wersjach językowych. Praktyczne porady w jaki sposób przetłumaczyć stronę bez użycia wtyczek, najczęściej popełniane błędy oraz zestawienie najpopularniejszych wtyczek i narzędzi do tłumaczenia stron internetowych.

June 30, 2016 — Unless you have ample money, you need good people skills to get your way in open source projects. (Honestly even with ample money). Get a glimpse at how Drupal 8’s multilingual initiative involved 1300+ people over 4.5 years under my leadership in dramatically improving multilingual features. So much so that: https://twitter.com/tkraftner/status/671267078616272896

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June 24, 2016 — Esta ponencia tiene como objeto describir el estado actual de WordPress multilingüe. Comenzaremos hablando sobre las consideraciones necesarias antes de escoger una herramienta, para finalizar con los plugins disponibles, su enfoque, pros y contras.