Multilingual Content in WordPress

Using WordPress in Your Language is straightforward enough. If your language happens to be English or Mandarin, your content will be accessible to about one quarter of the world population. If you want more reach, you’ll need to publish in multiple languages. Where we come from (Canada, eh!), government sites are required by law to feature the same content in English and in French. How does WordPress fare in this case? Spoiler alert: not so well.

We will walk you through the benefits, drawbacks and pitfalls of current approaches to multilingual content with WordPress. Yes, we’ve (pretty much) tried them all. We hope that by the end of our talk, you’ll feel at ease if multilingual projects come your way.