Enabling Continuous Localization of WordPress Websites

Track: Core Competencies | CC4 |
Thursday, November 2, 2017, 4:30pm – 5:15pm
Held in: Mission City Meeting Room 2
Presenters:
David Čaněk - Memsource 
Max Troyer - Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS)
Host: Ana Velázquez Vergés Andreato

With a number of content management systems options available to companies, 60% of websites around the world are hosted on WordPress. Localizing multilingual content on WordPress sites has never been easier with the integration of continuous localization tools. Marketers and developers have several options available to them, including proxy solutions or getting your hands dirty with plugins and directly integrating via API. In this presentation, we will conduct a survey of best practices, challenges and solutions.

Takeaways: Attendees will learn how to efficiently manage the translation of web content, best practices in enabling continuous localization on WordPress websites, and a number of challenges and their solutions (not to mention a few showstoppers and workarounds).