One installation, multiple subsites (language version)

  • I’m trying to build a multilingual site. I want to have every language as their own “site”, but to share media library (photos, videos, audio etc) and theme.

    I would like the site look like this:

    https://www.mydomain.com/ (root site with main language)
    https://www.mydomain.com/language1
    https://www.mydomain.com/language2
    https://www.mydomain.com/language3

    Each language would have their own navigation and stucture, but share the theme and media library and of course the administration.

    I have looked into some multilingual plugins, but they dont quite do this. Most of them expects you to have the excact same content on every language version. WordPress MU is too massive for this and doesn’t allow to share media library. So basicly I want to have one wordpress installation with “sub-sites”.

    What would be the best approach to do this?

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  • I’ll have one WP instalation and then use categories for every language… en/es/jp/fr/it/ etc and then under that create the whole website while on the loop you only include the subcategories from that main category.

    Thread Starter daily

    (@daily)

    What about static pages? How do you separate them into different language versions? If u make an empty place holder page eg english that has the same name as category the page will override that category.

    Could you pass me a link to your solution?

    Use posts instead of static pages

    Thread Starter daily

    (@daily)

    How do you generate navigation and design the structure of your site if you don’t use pages at all?

    Using categories… thats how the magic is created, you show content based on the category per language and the post are showed based on the loop… wp loops can create wonders, but its up to you to discover and find what works otherwise you can install wordpress mu which is a blog instalation for every folder/language but administrated with one interface

    Thread Starter daily

    (@daily)

    I know how the loop works and i have also tried mu, but i would appreciate more hands on example. If u just use posts, how do you separate “pages” from normal posts? How do you make navigation to each language category so that it updates automatically? How do you make sub-pages? With more categories?

    The site I’m working on has 6 top-level pages that each have 2-12 subpages and they even have sub-sub pages. Then it has 6 categories for normal posts.

    I’ve have been thinking to tweak a page category plus plugin to suite my needs, but that would need a great amount of work and it doesn’t do permalinks correctly at the moment.

    Other option I thought would be to use custom fields to separate navigational elements/static pages from normal posts, but that’s not an easy solution for the end user.

    Stop thinking about pages. Imagine your blog without pages. As the previous user has suggested twice, just do your entire blog in posts, period.

    Your imagination is tied by the themes you may have seen, which build navigation based on pages etc.

    Think beyond these themes — you will have to create your own theme. Instead of pages for navigation, just list categories in that same location. Hope this makes sense?

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