Permanent Tourist

The personal website of Mark Howells-Mead

Posts about multilingual

  • Screenshot of the WordCamp Switzerland website

    Building a multilingual WordCamp website

    How I used manual content structuring and the power of the WordPress Site Editor to set up what we believe to be the first non-plugin-based multilingual WordCamp website.

  • Screenshot of Kipfer holiday apartment, Faulensee, Switzerland

    Technical case study: simple, invisible language switching

    Using a website visitor’s browser settings to seamlessly display content in a language they can understand.

  • Working with multilingual theme options

    I’ve been using the Advanced Custom Fields plugin for WordPress for nearly five years, and it’s implemented in every project I’ve created or worked on since I began using it. At work, our WordPress Themes depend on Theme Options, which are set using custom fields created by the plugin. In order to make the technique…

  • Serving a multilingual website audience

    The latest article at A List Apart is a must-read for anyone serious about developing and running a website which should attract visitors who speak languages other than English.