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GOING GLOBALIntroduction & Benefits of Multilingual WooCommerce using
WPML Pluginby Maciej Pilarski - WordCamp Kansai 2015
ABOUT MEMaciej Pilarski
WPML Support Team
OnTheGoSystems
Polyglot
University Lecturer (teaches students how to create WordPress sites)
WordCamp Europe 2014 (Sofia) Volunteer
Local WordPress MeetUp Organiser - Poland
WordCamp Poland 2014 Organizer
World Region Population Internet Users Penetration
Africa 1,158,353,014 318,633,889 27,5%
Asia 4,032,654,624 1,405,121,036 34,8%
Europe 827,566,464 582,441,059 70,4%
Middle East 236,137,235 113,609,510 48,1%
North America 357,172,209 310,322,257 86,9%
Latin America 615,583,127 322,422,164 52,4%
Oceania / Australia 37,157,120 26,789,942 72,1%
WORLD INTERNET USAGE AND POPULATION STATISTICS DEC 31, 2014 - Mid-Year Update http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
TOP TEN LANGUAGES SPOKEN BY INTERNET USERS
http://www.numberof.net/number-of-languages-in-the-world/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_used_on_the_Internet
16%2%3%3%3%
4%4%
5%8% 25%
27%
English Chinese Spanish JapaneseGerman Portuguese Arabic FrenchRusian Korean Other
TOP TEN LANGUAGES USED ON WEBSITES
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language
2%3%
3%3%4%
4%5%6%
7%61%
English Russian German Japanese SpanishChinese French Portuguese Polish Italian
For the site owner
• you reach more customers
• you enhance your professional image
• you increase the trust of your visitors
• better search engine visibility(SEO Friendly)
THE BENEFITS OF HAVING A MULTILINGUAL SITE
HOW TO DO IT RIGHT Making your WordPress website multilingual
• Select site languages
• Select language URL format
HOW TO DO IT RIGHT Making your WordPress website multilingual
• Insert the language switcher
• Translate your content
HOW TO DO IT RIGHT Making your WordPress website multilingual
What can you translate:
• Site title
• Pages and posts
• Categories, tags
• Images, menus, widgets
• Products
• Custom post types
• Custom fields
• Theme localisation
• Theme options
• Lets you translate different kinds of WooCommerce product types
• Central management for translating product categories, tags and custom attributes
• Sends emails to clients and admins in their selected language
WOOCOMMERCE MULTILINGUAL PLUGIN
WOOCOMMERCE MULTILINGUAL PLUGIN
• Automatically synchronises product variations and images
• Keeps the same language through the checkout process
WOOCOMMERCE MULTILINGUAL PLUGIN
• Allows inventory tracking without breaking products into languages
• Enables running a single WooCommerce store with multiple currencies