Title: [Plugin: Polylang] Multisite Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # [Plugin: Polylang] Multisite * [Gustavius](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gustavius/) * (@gustavius) * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-polylang-multisite/) * Hi * I’m setting up 3 language sites with different content through multi-site. Basically I need to be able to select a language and it should take me (or the user) to a specific sub-site or sub-domain (not sure what to call it). * Dunno if my wording is correct but just to illustrate what I mean: * ``` WP multi-site choose your language / | \ / | \ Afrikaans English German sub-site A sub-site B sub-site C content A Content B Content C ``` * and of course someone from English should be able to link to Afrikaans vica versa etc. * Great Plug-in by the way. I had a LOT less hassle with this than many of the others! * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/polylang/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/polylang/) Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total) * Thread Starter [Gustavius](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gustavius/) * (@gustavius) * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-polylang-multisite/#post-2931894) * Apologies. My ASCII illustration got totally messed up there. * Moderator [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/) * (@jdembowski) * Forum Moderator and Brute Squad * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-polylang-multisite/#post-2931904) * I’ve edited your post with the code button, that put back the spaces so it displays better. * ASCII illustrations don’t really work otherwise. 😉 * Plugin Author [Chouby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chouby/) * (@chouby) * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-polylang-multisite/#post-2932019) * Currently, if you choose not to hide the URL language information for default language and do choose to detect the browser language, you will get 3 homepages: / mysite/af/ /mysite/en/ /mysite/de/ * When the user will go to /mysite/ it will be automatically redirect to its preferred language homepage. Is that what you want ? * Thread Starter [Gustavius](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gustavius/) * (@gustavius) * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-polylang-multisite/#post-2932036) * I didn’t even know you can do that via the browser! But yes, I need to be able to redirect the user to the specific language or he should be able to go to any language from any language page (sub-site in a wordpress multi-site). * And thank you Jan for the fix 🙂 * Plugin Author [Chouby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chouby/) * (@chouby) * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-polylang-multisite/#post-2932040) * Every user can choose its preferred languages in any browser. For example, in Firefox, you can set this in edit->preferences->content. This information can be used by any website. It is used by Polylang if you check the right option ( which is the case by default). If none of your website languages match the user preferences, Polylang reverts to the default language. * Thread Starter [Gustavius](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gustavius/) * (@gustavius) * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-polylang-multisite/#post-2932042) * Thanks Chouby! * But I still need to know how I can redirect a user to any language specific sub- site in a WP multi-site set-up when they click on a flag or language selection. At the moment polylang only changes the language for the current sub-site. * In other words: * At the moment if I am in the Afrikaans sub-site and select English it does not change the directory but stays at /mysite/af/ instead of going to /mysite/en/. * Plugin Author [Chouby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chouby/) * (@chouby) * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-polylang-multisite/#post-2932043) * Do you mean that you used the multisite feature of WordPress and set up 3 different sites, one for each language? Polylang does not work like this. Other plugins do. Polylang allows you to setup a multilingual site with a standard WordPress installation, with no multisite feature enabled (or if you want, several multilingual sites with the multisite feature enabled). * Thread Starter [Gustavius](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gustavius/) * (@gustavius) * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-polylang-multisite/#post-2932046) * That’s a dissapointment! It’s such a great plug-in! * Any other suggestions EXCEPT qtranslate – I had a LOT of problems with it to try and get Afrikaans working. I need something that will work with WP E-commerce. The only other option seems to be WPML. * Plugin Author [Chouby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chouby/) * (@chouby) * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-polylang-multisite/#post-2932047) * qTranslate, WPML and Polylang are, in this respect, working the same way. They don’t need a multisite installation to make multilingual site. They transform a standard installation in a multilingual site. * I believe this plugin allows you to link different (multilingual) sites [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/multisite-language-switcher/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/multisite-language-switcher/)( I never tested it) * Polylang has not been tested with WP E-commerce. For WPML, I guess you can just ask them. * [CKatzman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ckatzman/) * (@ckatzman) * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-polylang-multisite/#post-2932091) * I’ve read that for SEO, Google recommends having each language in its own subdomain or subdirectory, all within one website domain. Can Polylang handle this? Is Polylang known to be compatible/incompatible with any particular SEO plugin? I’d like to use SEO by Yoast. 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