Learn how to create a website in several languages using WordPress as a CMS, using free plugins and supplied themes.

WordPress is one of the most popular pieces of software for blogs or websites, however it doesn't support bilingual or multilingual websites out-of-the-box. In this hands-on course you'll learn how to configure WordPress so that your blog or website supports multiple languages.

Starting by enabling the WordPress multisite feature to create a WordPress network, we'll then look at how to install additional languages into WordPress for the dashboard and themes, and a free plugin that allows us to easily switch the language of the dashboard.
We'll look at two options for the visitor to our blog or website to select the language: first, a language selection page which also offers the possibility of remembering the choice in a cookie; and second detecting the language based on the visitor's browser settings. For both these options a fully-functional WordPress theme is included with the relevant lecture ready to download, install and adapt to your needs.