WP bilingual site question

  • I’m Helping a friend with his WP bilingual site. I will install it on my local mamp server.

    As I’m far from a WP expert and I didn’t build that site, I have some first concern on the overall setup and if it is conform to how a multilingual WP should be build?

    I have some screen shot of the files arrangement but saddly, I do not see a way to attached them to my message???

    I can see a mixup of files that probably belong to an old WP install and a “site” folder where the english & French WP (2 sites) reside.

    I like to cleanup all that and be sure this is the way to do a Multilingual WP Site…

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  • Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    There’s no one “right” way to handle multilingual sites. There are a number of possible approaches, each with its own set of pros and cons. Have a look at Multilingual WordPress for more on this.

    We’re sorry you are having trouble with images, the WP forums don’t wish to host people’s images. You need to host them elsewhere and simply link to them here. Any of the many photo sharing sites should suffice.

    Thread Starter Patrick Toulze

    (@patrick-toulze)

    Cool bcworkz, there is my link to an image that show the files/folder arrangement.
    https://www.dropbox.com/s/fnpcfuady2xmfzk/archeofact.gif?dl=0

    The live site get the (site) in it’s url —> https://archeofact.ca/site/en/

    I can see lot of html files and their corresponding folder, an (Old) index.html and also some WP folder (look messy for me) and in the (site) folder you get 2 separated WP site, one for the english and one for the french. In these 2 site I can see the normal WP folders/files configuration but with an home.html ???? Not sure of all that???

    Can you just comment on what you see?

    I’m going to your multilingual link – Thanks!

    • This reply was modified 6 years, 7 months ago by Patrick Toulze. Reason: Clearer
    Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    The root folder with all the .html with related folders appear to be web pages saved from the browser using the “save page – complete” option. The files appear to be copies of an earlier web site. I’ll wager that you could safely archive these somewhere and remove from the server if you wanted to.

    The /en/ and /fr/ folders are two separate WP installations from a files standpoint. I cannot tell if they use the same DB or not. I imagine each site probably uses its own tables if not its own DB. The files and folders of each installation look about right.

    I would guess the two sites are completely unrelated in a technical sense. You could make major changes to one and the other would be completely unaffected. Publishing a new page may involve doing so in entirety for each site. I would not know if there is some sort of plugin that coordinates the two sites and ensures they are mirrors except for language. I suspect not.

    Thread Starter Patrick Toulze

    (@patrick-toulze)

    Thanks “bcworkz” yes, you where right, all theses files are not used.

    The final structure is:
    ROOT FOLDER
    : .htaccess
    : site {Folder containing both WP sites)
    :: en (English WP site)
    :: fr (French WP site)

    2 different databases are used.

    Is this a correct or professional structure for a bilingual site and if this is optimized?

    Having to maintain 2 different WP sites seem to me not really optimal, if I compare to Joomla, not sure?

    Thread Starter Patrick Toulze

    (@patrick-toulze)

    What I like to know, as I see that this configuration of one separate site by language is far from optimal. What should be the better and easier route choice to have a professional multi-language WP.

    Just need some advice here ?

    Thanks in advance…

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