Polylang tutorial – Time efficient setup

In this tutorial you will how to quickly setup a multilanguage website using the free Polylang plugin. This tutorial shows the fastest setup so that you can get you website setup in two or more languages as quickly as possible.

2:15 Plugin installation
4:34 Polylang settings
7:36 Translating content
14:35 Menu setup
17:20 Widget translation

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[motioninmind]

One thing I had to Google - I wanted the switcher in the menu to be:

EN | DE

Not the flags or fully spelled words. Found the answer in 10s and made the changes, works great 👍🏼

[motioninmind]

thank you! This is so much easier than other tutorials make it seem

[GeorgeWellerYT]

This was incredibly useful, thank you!

[lucyinthesky]

Thanks for this amazing tutorial!!! One thing I still can't figure out though is how to create different footers for the different languages using Polylang. Could you give me some advice? Would be very appreciated. Hälsningar från Sverige 😄

[martinhunt]

Thanks for a great video ! A pre-installation question 1) Do I need to setup Wordpress Multisite first ? 2) I'm using Wordpress 6.3.2, Gutenberg 16.8.1 and Polylang 3.5.1 (all up to date versions as of 23 Oct 23). I have an issue setting up the menus (around 18:30 of the video). I have a much simpler interface to configure the menus and no possibilities that I can see to configure different language menus. What am I missing ? Thanks in advance for your help

[Luxury-Travel-Switzerland]

Thanks for your helpful tutorial. I have a question corncerning translations of installed Plugins:

I am using Polylang free version. In the Polylang translation, the plugin "WP-Youtube Lyte" is not included with the consequence that German language is shown on English pages. It seems to be that Polylang free version does not support the plugin "WP-Youtube Lyte".

Question: Does the Pro Version of Polylang support the translation? Or is there another way how I can translate the plugin "WP-Youtube Lyte"?

[rociocecilia]

Thank you! are you working with the premium version in this video?

[cornepetersen]

Awesome video,

Would it be the best thing to make all the pages first in the other language and then proceed with the plugin?

[magicreset]

Thank you for this video. Very helpful. The only thing that is looking totally different on my end is the copying of the pages. I don't have the option to select all text as it shows the page in the blocks with headings, paragraphs, pictures etc. I'm not sure how I can 'copy' my pages as I'm not able to select all the text (I can only copy per block text)

[fahri]

Hello thank you for great guide. However when activating all synchronization for custom fields its did not create them in secondary language, still need to type one by one for custom fields such city names. Any ideas ? Thanks

[blackpepperstudio]

Good, thank you ! Something I couldn't do though: trashing the transated page and start again. The little pencil stayed whatever, and the "+" didn't show. How to start the process of duplicating the page when it has been done once ?

[chauron]

Good evening, I have created a News page with the layout designer of Elementor. This page shows me the news and depending on the language I choose, it shows me only those of that language, but how can I have different templates for each language. For example in Spanish I want it to put News but in another language I don't want it to put news if not the word in that language, but in the conditions if I don't choose that page to be a post it stops working for the blog, for the header and footer Of the page, I have been able to tell you that it depends on the author to show me one or the other and I have created each translation with a different author but I can't get the news.

[milica]

Can somebody help with this - I make click on + to add a new page, after that it is created but still + doesn't change to pen and it seems as if the page wasn't created?

[JefterMafer]

How can you keep editing your posts and pages on the dashboard? When I click to edit as you did, it always take me to another edit page... your way so much more easier.!

[RandyAnderson-DigitalHub]

This plugin causes our site to go into an infinite redirect loop. Can find any option for support anywhere.

[babipsylon]

know polylang does not mirror pages "dynamically", but can you do this: the linked translated page is outdated. You want to relink the newer updated source language page with a clone of it*, and then translate again. And then link this in the menu instead of the older translated page.

*This is possible when no translated pages are linked yet, but once linked, it seems impossible to relink with another page the the originally linked one?

[rnoureldin]

How to have two different direction language, like EN and Ar?

[kuchneathheng]

What about if we don't have categories?

[MrBosqi]

I dont see "pretty permalinks" settings, is it some plugin?

[shabazrangrez]

I am unable to add langauge switcher in the menu