Multilingual CMS

You can create a fully functional multilingual site using one of the popular multilingual plugins supported by the Rubenz theme.

• WPML (powerful all-in-one paid plugin)
• Polylang (lightweight alternative available for free)
• TranslatePress (free front-end visual translation editor)

WARNING

Please note that there will be no AJAX transition when you switch between the page languages. A hard page reload is required for the correct page translation display.

WPML

▶️ Step 1.

Set up and activate your multilingual plugin.

▶️ Step 2.

When you activate WPML, the wizard will guide you on how to set up everything, including the language switcher. In Polylang, you need to go to Appearance → Widgets and drag & drop a language switcher to the Language Switcher Area.

WPML wizard suggests adding and configuring the language switcher. If you’d like, you can do this later at any time.

As Widget area choose Language Switcher Area

▶️ Step 3.

You will see a new widget area for the language switcher.

New widget area in Appearance → Widgets

The language switcher is customizable. You can choose it to appear as a dropdown or horizontal list. While the theme provides some styling for the switcher, all the customizations are available inside the multilingual plugin settings.

Active language switcher

Polylang

Polylang is to be configured in a similar way as WPML. You simply drag & drop the language switcher to the Language Switcher Area in Appearance → Widgets.

The rest of the plugin configuration is done via the plugin's settings page in Settings → PolyLang.

TranslatePress

▶️ Step 1.

In the admin panel, go to Settings → TranslatePress and open the Advanced tab. Make sure to put a checkmark at Disable dynamic translation. This should speed up the overall page loading speed and fix broken AJAX transitions of the translated pages.

Disable dynamic translation if you have the theme's AJAX navigation turned on

▶️ Step 2.

TranslatePress provides a WordPress shortcode that renders the language switcher.

[language-switcher]

You can use this shortcode anywhere in the theme. If you'd like to have the language switcher in the header, open the Appearance → Widgets page and use the default Text widget with the inserted shortcode.

Drag & drop the WordPress default Text widget to the Language Switcher Area with the shortcode

▶️ Step 3.

The language switcher visual appearance can be configured from the plugin settings page Settings → TranslatePress under the General tab.

Choose the preferred language switcher style

TranslatePress language switcher in front-end