Activating the translation plugins for your website

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(We use the WPML CMS plugin and the Strings plugin)

 Goals: 

   Please click the [ Mark Complete ] button at the bottom of this page when you’ve completed these goals:

• Activate the WPML CMS plugin for your website
• Activate the Strings plugin for your website

Why?

We use plugins for translations of our WordPress-based websites.

These are already installed on your site, but they need to be activated to function.

Activating the WPML CMS plugin and the Strings plugin

For support with WPML, please see the following resources…

WPML resources:

https://wpml.org/documentation/support/

https://wpml.org/documentation/related-projects/woocommerce-multilingual/

Read through the online WPML support documentation thoroughly:
https://wpml.org/documentation/getting-started-guide/

Youtube videos:

Youtube:     WPML setup  (WPML.org video)

Youtube:      Theme and Plugins Localization in WPML  (WPML.org video)

• • You can ignore these parts of this video:
    – you don’t need to download plugins as they should already be there and just need activating.
    – you don’t need to transfer .mo files.

Youtube:      Widget translation via strings  (WPML.org video) – watch the first part of the video.

Youtube:      Menu translation  (WPML.org video)

See also this PDF: Using WPML for Translating your IBN Website