WPML : Settings & new language

WPML installation :

This tool works with 4 plug-ins but, using this process, we only need to use 1 of them.

The steps are :

Install WPML on the website, before activation (Tech team)

Activate and set WPML for the current language of the website (SEO team)

Create subfolder for language on which we would like to publish content (SEO Team)

Add content / categories / connection with translations

Step 1 : Installation of WPML without activate it

Just ask to the tech team using the "TMA Wordpress" dashboard on Asana.

Step 2 : Activate WPML and set the good configuration

1 - Activate the main plug in

2 - set the language you want to add on the website, set the "how to handle languages without translation" on "skip language", and let all the language switcher empty

3 - Set the key related from the WPML dashboard

Step 3: Create a subfolder for every language you need to publish on

Good to know you : you can hide every language you want until they are ready to be indexed.

You can find this option inside WPML settings :

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You can create and work on all languages you want until they are ready to publish by using this feature in WPML settings

First of all, click on "WPML", then click on "add / remove language"

Step 4 : publish content

Language dashboard

You can choose in which language you want to work using the option into the topbar

Once you selected a language, every options, articles, categories display in the website will be related to it.

To access the preview, remove the langage subfolder : https://punditfeed.com/?p=7385&preview=true instead of https://punditfeed.com/be/?p=7385&preview=true

Posts / Pages

All the posts display are the ones in english on the next screenshot. You can also swap from one language to another one by clicking on its name.

When you publish a content, you can set :

Language of the article

connect with translations, if the post is a translation of another one (= also same keyword in another language, homepage, etc)

Menu management

The menu of the main version needs to still attached inside the "menu location" :

For example, on footballwhispers, the primary navigation is "menu test JJ"

Now, from the "menu" page, change to another language by using the button inside the topbar.

You just have to :

Create your menu

Set the language of the menu

Set which menu you want to replace with it when you are in the current language.

In our example, "Menu Test JJ" from the UK version will be replaced by "Menu 1 - RU" for all the russian pages.

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If you change anything in the "manage locations", it will change menu for the whole site.

Add homepage management

Footer management

Go > Appearance > Widgets > Footer area ⇒ drag'n'drop a new "Custome HTML" area in the footer, customize it and display it on the right country