Before you decide on translating the site into another language, thoroughly explore whether there is a need for it. This is most easily done through Weblizer in Cpanel or Google Analytics. Check the amount of visits from a particular country, with a particular speaking estimate pins having these visitors to the site to achieve your goals.
To translate the site into another language, it is necessary to translate itself WordPress theme you are using, and of course content. It is essential that in addition to static website content regularly enter all the posts in those other languages.
Although mechanical translators reached a high level of quality, it is still not good enough and need the intervention of a trained interpreter.
To install the WordPress Translation
To translate a WordPress itself, you need to download the file with translation of WordPress. Save the file in / wp-content / languages, which is often fully automated procedure.
Then be the usual way to install a plugin for wordpress that is going in the file wp-config.php in the section define ( ‘WPLANG’, ”); add tabs with the default language. In the settings you need to determine which is the default language of the site for example. Serbian, and there should be define ( ‘WPLANG’, ‘en_GB’) ;.
You will get the ability to input both languages additional choices as shown below.
In this way, you are prepared by following WordPress. We now need to translate the theme that your site uses.
Translation WordPress themes
Translation WordPress theme, it is best to take advantage of some of the WordPress plugins. The simplest is qTranslate. Once installed and activated, it is necessary to perform its basic settings. First you need to set all of the languages you want to translate the site.
If you are bothered by darkness, the darkness will find ready-made .po and .mo files for some languages. To the theme translated into Serbian, it is necessary to take some of the .po files (eg. En_US.po), rename it in sr_RS.po and load it into the Poedit. Here you get the dialogue to translate phrases from English into Serbian. When you save you can get them all at the mo files from the Serbian language. These files store next to the other language files and the time you translate and WordPress theme.
Translating content
qTranslate allows for very easy translation of articles (posts) and sides (pages). In each article page and you will get the option to enter the same content on each of the installed languages.
Within the theme, activate the Widget for the menu language.
Finally, if you are not satisfied with the menu languages, add code to the choice on where you want to be located:
<Div id = “qTranslate-lang-chooser”>
<? Php echo qtrans_generateLanguageSelectCode ( ‘image’); ?>
</ Div>