Title: Multilanguage without plugins
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Multilanguage without plugins

 *  [enricolino](https://wordpress.org/support/users/enricolino/)
 * (@enricolino)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multilanguage-without-plugins/)
 * I have a question and hope you can help. I would like to create a multilingual
   website without using a plugin and thought that creating a multisite could be
   the answer. I tried to rename the various twentyten themes in twentyten-it twentyten-
   en etc, hoping to be able to use the one in English for my english site and so
   on. Unfortunately I didn’t succeed since WordPress doesn’t seem to recognize 
   all different theme versions and doesn’t allow me to chose. I know it might be
   a silly idea making a network of blogs just for the languages but maybe you can
   help me or suggest me something? I’d apprecciate it!
 * Thanks in advance.
 * Cheers
 * Enrico

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 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multilanguage-without-plugins/#post-1850281)
 * Make CHILD themes. [http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes](http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes)
 * You have to edit the CSS file to explain to WordPress what the new name is.
 *  [Andrea Rennick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrea_r/)
 * (@andrea_r)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multilanguage-without-plugins/#post-1850463)
 * You don;t need to make multilingual version of each *theme*. they are localized
   already, you just need language packs for the themes or WordPress itself.
 * then you can make a new site to do the actual content for each language.
 *  Thread Starter [enricolino](https://wordpress.org/support/users/enricolino/)
 * (@enricolino)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multilanguage-without-plugins/#post-1850540)
 * Firstly thanks to both of you! I tried a few things but didn’t manage to do what
   I needed to :(.
    @ Ipstenu: is it really needed to make a child theme in this
   case? @ Andrea: could you please be more specific? I guess I didn’t understand
   what you mean. Thanks in advance
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multilanguage-without-plugins/#post-1850544)
 * If you have a need to make a ‘duplicate’ theme, that is only different in small
   ways, it’s better (and easier) to make child themes. [http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes](http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes)
 * But. What Andrea means is that you can download the language packs (from [http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_in_Your_Language](http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_in_Your_Language))
   and apply them per site. Saves time and money 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [enricolino](https://wordpress.org/support/users/enricolino/)
 * (@enricolino)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multilanguage-without-plugins/#post-1850547)
 * I guess it works now, thanks :)!
 *  Thread Starter [enricolino](https://wordpress.org/support/users/enricolino/)
 * (@enricolino)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multilanguage-without-plugins/#post-1850563)
 * Here I am once again :(. I tried a couple of things without any success. I wanted
   to place some flags on the right site of the header of my twentyten theme to 
   allow any visitor to select a language just clicking on the flag. Firstly I tried
   working on the header.php and placed some code there and then in the style.css
   to add some specifications. Beside having a different result on each page (strangely
   it looked different in the en page than in the es one etc….), it just didn’t 
   come out like I thoght. Any suggestion to help me? I remember i had seen a twentyten
   theme with the flags in the posision I wanted them to be (just underneath the
   navigation bar under the header image) but I can’t find it anymore. Thanks again………..
 *  [Andrea Rennick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrea_r/)
 * (@andrea_r)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multilanguage-without-plugins/#post-1850566)
 * Likely those flags were added by a plugin.

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 * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
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 * Last reply from: [Andrea Rennick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrea_r/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multilanguage-without-plugins/#post-1850566)
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