Title: Multisite + multilanguage
Last modified: November 3, 2023

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# Multisite + multilanguage

 *  [e dev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/efishinsea/)
 * (@efishinsea)
 * [2 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-multilanguage-3/)
 * Hi. I’m working on a Multisite install that hosts different languages, so we 
   create a post in English, then broadcast it to 2 other language sites.
 * The problem I am trying to solve now is that the English site has an English 
   category name, while another site (French) has a French equivalent of the category
   name, etc.
 * What happens now is the English category is getting copied into the other sites
   each time, either getting added to the site, or overwriting what is there with
   the English version.
 * This is likely outside the scope of what this plugin does, but is there any way
   to map lang 1 CAT to lang 2 CAT for broadcasted data? Ideally, I would like to
   keep using the plugin, but can’t have the categories changed this way.
 * Thanks

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 *  Plugin Author [edward_plainview](https://wordpress.org/support/users/edward_plainview/)
 * (@edward_plainview)
 * [2 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-multilanguage-3/#post-17173473)
 * How are you doing the translating? Using a translation plugin? Or something more
   manual?
 * If using some manual solution, there is a [snippet to prevent various parts of a taxonomy from being updated](https://broadcast.plainviewplugins.com/snippet/protect-taxonomy-term-description-and-thumbnail/),
   but it requires that the slug is the same.
 *  Thread Starter [e dev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/efishinsea/)
 * (@efishinsea)
 * [2 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-multilanguage-3/#post-17173528)
 * Thanks. So if I follow you, if the category slugs are different on each site,
   then there is no work-around for this issue.
   But if I used the snippet and the
   categories are set up like this with the same slug: English : Webinars / webinarsFrench:
   Webinaires / webinarsSpanish: Webinarios / webinarsthen the broadcast would work
   and assign the post to the correctly labeled category?
 * …and if so, how would this be used with post categories?
 *  Plugin Author [edward_plainview](https://wordpress.org/support/users/edward_plainview/)
 * (@edward_plainview)
 * [2 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-multilanguage-3/#post-17174478)
 * How would this be used? You mean how to use the snippet?
 * You’re changing the description, right? So tell your webdev to only use the part
   of the snippet that protects the description and not the thumbnail id.
 *  Thread Starter [e dev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/efishinsea/)
 * (@efishinsea)
 * [2 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-multilanguage-3/#post-17174799)
 * No, I’m trying to map the English category to the respective other language categories
   on the subsequent WP mutlisite sites.
   So, I want to Broadcast the post, but I
   need the post that belongs to category “Apple” on the English site to also belong
   to the category “Pomme” on the French site and category “Manzana” on the Spanish
   site, where each of the categories is uniquely named for the appropriate language
   of the site.
 *  Plugin Author [edward_plainview](https://wordpress.org/support/users/edward_plainview/)
 * (@edward_plainview)
 * [2 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-multilanguage-3/#post-17174825)
 * The mapping to the equivalent category works automatically as long as the slugs
   are the same.
 * The snippet is to prevent the translated taxonomy name from being overwritten
   during broadcast.
 *  Thread Starter [e dev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/efishinsea/)
 * (@efishinsea)
 * [2 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-multilanguage-3/#post-17174850)
 * That’s the problem – the slugs aren’t the same, which would otherwise make the
   URLs to posts show them in the wrong language.
 *  Plugin Author [edward_plainview](https://wordpress.org/support/users/edward_plainview/)
 * (@edward_plainview)
 * [2 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-multilanguage-3/#post-17174886)
 * Oh, well in that case I suggest the use of a translation plugin. I like Polylang
   myself (much, much cleaner than WPML).

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