Hello,
the development of MultilingualPress happens in our public GitHub repository. Yes, the plugin is of course being further developed. And yes, you can also buy premium support over at MarketPress.
If you deactivate MultilingualPress, you will obviously also deactivate its functionality, for instance the herflangs. What no lock-in means is just: if you deactivate MultilingualPress, you will be able to use your WordPress site as if MultilingualPress never was active at all. Our plugin doesn’t manipulate posts, users, terms, or any metadata – unlike other multi-language plugins.
Just go ahead and try MultilingualPress – it’s free, you know?! 🙂
Kind regards,
Thorsten
Hi Thorsten,
yes, I know that it is free. I am thinking to use it for our new company website and this is why I am looking for a solution for a multilingual WP which will work in the longterm. This is why I am asking whether you will continue developing the plugin.
At the moment I am just unsure whether I should use your plugin or the Multisite Language Switcher (we would basically like to use the multisite approach instead of a plugin like WPML or Polylang)
Since it seems as if you are always dependent on a plugin in terms of a multilingual WP page, I try to make the best decision in terms of support and updates. 😉
Are there any drawbacks in terms of SEO or is your plugin well suited for this topic?
Hello again,
as long as there is a need for a plugin in order to realize a multilingual WordPress website, there’s no way we stop developing MultilingualPress. We at Inpsyde (the company behind MultilingualPress) are using it ourselves on dozens of client projects, by the way.
The last update of MultilingualPress was several months ago for two reasons:
- we have been working on a huge refactoring (JavaScript codebase);
- there was no (security) bug that needed an urgent fix.
Unfortunately, I’m no expert in (multilingual) SEO. I’m unaware of anything relevant that’s missing with respect to SEO, though. Some things are given by using a mutlisite approach already, for instance SEO-friendly URLs (in case you are using pretty permalinks, of course). Other things are included in MultilingualPress, such as hreflang links and headers, or Language Negotiation between browser and website.
Kind regards,
Thorsten
@aixorbitant, there is no SEO drawback, since you can optimize your content, images, URLs, Meta description and so on, specificly to each language. Also with MultilingualPress you don’t have to suffer performance since page speed is also very important for SEO ranking.
I hope that helps!
@thorsten
Okay, that is good to hear. 🙂
I have got one last question: What is the best way to set up the Multisite for the plugin? By creating a multisite, my first site will be normally the “main” site.
Does it make sense to create the main site like this “main_site” and then to create a subsite for every language?
“main_site”
“main_site_en”
“main-site_de”
“main_site_fr”
@seville76
Thank you. 😉
Hi,
MultilingualPress plays nice with both subdomain and subdirectory multisite installations, so it’s up to you how you set up your network.
What makes the main site different from any other one? What’s its language? Does it have other content than the rest of the sites?
Usually, you decide for a main language and thus have, for example example.com/ in English. All other language versions are then either lang.example.com/ or example.com/lang/, depending on your multisite.
Kind regards,
Thorsten
