Localization and Multi-Lingual

  • I’m trying to determine the best solution for what I’m trying to achieve here.

    1 website with 2 languages, and 2 localizations.

    I need Canadian English, and Canadian French (which will have translated content). And American (which will have content that is unique to it).
    The American site won’t need translations.

    I think the following url structure would make sense

    domain.com/ca/en/ (Canadian English, may have content unique to Canada)
    domain.com/ca/fr/ (french translations of the Canadian English Site)
    domain.com/us/ (American English, may have content unique to US)

    Is WPML capable of dealing with this? Or is there a better plugin to include?

    The site will have custom post types as well. And the translations will be handled by an internal team, manually translated.

    Thank you

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  • Rae

    (@raewilson)

    Hi joshuajrichards,

    You might want to get in touch with WPML directly and ask if they can handle that kind of structure.

    If you’re keen to check out another plugin, qTranslate (https://www.qianqin.de/qtranslate/) handles URLs nicely. The info on their website says you can:
    * Choose one of 3 Modes to make your URLs pretty and SEO-friendly. – The everywhere compatible ?lang=en, simple and beautiful /en/foo/ or nice and neat en.yoursite.com
    * One language per URL – Users and SEO will thank you for not mixing content.

    Hope that helps!

    Cheers, Rae

    Thread Starter joshuajrichards

    (@joshuajrichards)

    Thanks Rae.

    It seems I no longer need french, and just need to do the following:

    1. Canadian and US content
    2. Content shared between the two

    I think url structure would still be

    https://somedomain.com/ca/
    https://somedomain.com/us/

    Where landing on the root, would redirect you. Is that best practise for SEO?

    Rae

    (@raewilson)

    Hi Joshua,

    This video by Matt Cutts from Google should answer your questions about URL structure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyWx31GeQWY

    Cheers, Rae

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