Title: Two-language website setup
Last modified: October 26, 2018

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# Two-language website setup

 *  [Relja](https://wordpress.org/support/users/relja/)
 * (@relja)
 * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/two-language-website-setup/)
 * In 2015 I’ve started my blog (website) using WordPress. Say the address is example.
   com. It is in my native language.
    At the same time, not knowing any better, 
   I had decided to make all the info available in English as well. So I set up 
   a completely separate WordPress install at say english.example.com.
 * My website provides niche information. It ranks fine for the relevant content
   in search engines. Lately, I’ve learned a bit about hreflang tags, marking and
   linking different language versions of the same content etc.
 * Now, to do that, it seems plugins are a quick and relatively easy way. However,
   most require either making the whole thing “multisite”, or coppying all the data
   from english.example.com to example.com, as a “translation”.
 * I find the current set up to be very stable, “sturdy” and to work fine. Visitors
   googling in my native get example.com results, while English querries return 
   english.example.com pages.
 * In addition to that, each website has a link to the alternate language version
   home page (but no page-level links). And that works fine too as well.
 * The question is – should I still make the hreflang links between the two sites?
   Is there a way to do it without going multisite, or coppying all the content 
   from one site, placing it all in one place?

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 *  [katanga1987](https://wordpress.org/support/users/katanga1987/)
 * (@katanga1987)
 * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/two-language-website-setup/#post-10820115)
 * Have you checked out WPML? As far as I am aware it allows you to have different
   installs of WordPress as you have detailed.
 *  Thread Starter [Relja](https://wordpress.org/support/users/relja/)
 * (@relja)
 * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/two-language-website-setup/#post-10823155)
 * Thanks for the reply. Have looked into the plugin. Apparently, there are people
   complaining it slows the website performance down. From what i could tell, all
   the multilanguage plugins have downsides, even the “premium” ones.
 * My website is not very large – about 10 pages and 130 posts (per language version).
   But it’s growing about 1 post per week.
 * Might just leave it as it is, without any multilang support, apart from a choice
   in the top-right corner that takes you to the alt. language website version. 
   Google searches in each language show the relevant language page version, so 
   it seems to have figured it out without the hreflang. With good page rankings
   as well – so probably no double content penalties (languages differ vastly, only
   images are the same).
 * I’m not selling anything so this seems like too much bother with questionable
   benefits to the visitors and the google as well.
 * Considering adding hreflang codes manually on home pages, and a few top-landing
   pages perhaps, but not sure how exactly to do it or if it has any downsides (
   like plugins do, in terms of slower website, problems when/if uninstalling them
   etc.).

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