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Let’s imagine that you have a site in English and in Arabic. WordPress allows you to choose your backend language. But if, for example you choose English, your editor will be in English too, meaning that you have to write your post from left to right, even if you are writing a post in Arabic….

Let’s imagine that you have to manage a site for US and UK. Some pages may be different for both countries – for example a store’s directory or local news – but it could happen that some pages could be the same for both countries – for example a documentation page or global news. In…

Polylang Pro 2.0 comes with major features for users having multiple domains: Another major improvement for Polylang Pro users is the integration of Advanced Custom Fields Pro: Custom fields are automatically copied when you create a new translation. Some new features are common to both versions of Polylang: Also some major changes, interesting mainly developers,…

Almost five years ago, I started writing a multilingual plugin for my personal needs. Three months later, I made it available to the public and released Polylang 0.1 on wordpress.org. To my great surprise, the number of users grew very rapidly. I started adding more features. Synchronization in 0.7, media in 0.9, WPML config file…

Want to learn how to add a language switcher to your WordPress site? You’ve come to the right place. A language switcher (or language selector) is your website’s multilingual navigator, allowing visitors to effortlessly explore content in different languages. It empowers your international audience to be able to select their preferred language when they are…

Today, we’ll see how translations are working in the WordPress ecosystem. First, you need to keep in mind that Polylang, Polylang Pro or Polylang for WooCommerce doesn’t translate anything. It “just” asks WordPress to load the correct language pack according to the language selected in front-end thanks to our language switcher. How translations in WordPress…

For a very long time, Polylang allows to synchronize some post properties or metadata across translations. For example, you can synchronize taxonomies and custom fields. The site’s administrator decides this under Languages > Settings > Synchronizations. How does it work? Let say that you have a post about an event and that this post includes…

In web development, when you want to import or export files from a server to a client, or vice versa, you will transfer such files through the HTTP protocol. In both cases, the HTTP request or response usually declares which kind of content they’re transfering. I’d use an a comparison to explain it easier :…

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