im a newbie to php/javascript/jquery,etc. How do I implement cookies into a multilingual/multiregional (wordpress.org) website layed out with architecture like explained below?
http://domain.com/ takes users to a page that asks for which country they are in, they have the option of four different countries, Canada, UK, Australia and US. Then if for example, they select Canada, they are taken to http://ca.domain.com/ and it asks for language, English, French, Spanish and below that is a dropdown for other languages. If they click english, they will be taken to the final result of a wordpress blog at http://ca.domain.com/en/
How may I set cookies so that next time they visit http://domain.com/ or even jump to http://ca.domain.com/ that it would immediately send them the the wordpress blog that they saw last time, also would these cookies (not the same one set on their desktop) be able to work if a user is a mobile client? Can I also make a link back to the language and region selection process?
Thanks in advance!
By the Way, I am using WP Multisite for the countries and maybe set up some sort of php translation at the end of the subdomain multisite urls
Extension to question: Remember language selection - then redirect to home page in subsequent visits
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I need to start working on a tours WordPress website and I got asked that if the user is local then it opens a page with some content for outgoing packages. However, if the user was from America for example, it opens Incoming and pilgrim packages. They also asked me to have 3 different languages for the website and depending on where the user is from, it opens the website with the visitor language accordingly and it also have the option to change language.
I was thinking the best way is to make 3 different WordPress websites with 2 sub domain and the domain is for a default language. However, it can have the same database so I don't have to re-insert the content.
Did I think right or is there another way that might save time and effort?
Thanks for help in advance :)
I'm currently trying to find a way to change the logo & color style of the website for my employer based on the Geolocation of the User.
Its an international group of companies, based in the Netherlands, which has a growing number of subsidaries over the world (for example in Russia and Brazil).
http://www.ipsgroupbv.com
The Russian and Portuguese translated sections of the website fall under the International Group (IPS Group), but we want only users from Russia (and the CIS) and Brazil/Portugal to see the logo of the designated subsidary companies. Instead of making a whole seperate website - i wanted to find a way to change the stylesheet based on Geolocation. This because only the colorscheme and logo changes, nothing else. In addition we also have registered domain names from the countries in question (i.e ipsgroupbv.com.br and ipsgroupbv.ru)
Our website is powered by wordpress and the WPML translation plugin.
Could anyone point me in the right direction to finding a sollution? I was thinking of a php or jQuery sollution to this problem.
I am using http://www.geoplugin.net/json.gp?ip=your_ip_address to get user location details.
You will json error like
{
"geoplugin_request":"127.0.0.1",
"geoplugin_status":404,
"geoplugin_credit":"Some of .....",
"geoplugin_city":"",
"geoplugin_region":"",
"geoplugin_areaCode":"",
"geoplugin_dmaCode":"",
"geoplugin_countryCode":"",
"geoplugin_countryName":"",
"geoplugin_continentCode":"",
"geoplugin_latitude":"0",
"geoplugin_longitude":"0",
"geoplugin_regionCode":"",
"geoplugin_regionName":null,
"geoplugin_currencyCode":null,
"geoplugin_currencySymbol":null,
"geoplugin_currencySymbol_UTF8":"",
"geoplugin_currencyConverter":0
}
pass your ip address and check it.
write php code according to country.
I have a website that is avaliable in two languages, english and portuguese.
The website is configured so that the Google +1 button likes count is the same no matter what the language the reader is reading the web site, but this gives me a problem, because I must choose only one URL for the Google +1 button, which will be in only one of the avaliable languages: portuguese or english, not both. Examples of the URLs that I use to configure the Google +1 button URL (href) are below:
Portuguese url: www.website.net/the-page
English url: www.website.net/en/the-page
With this, when the user click on the Google +1 button, she ends up sharing the page in the language that was configured in the Google +1 button, which may not be in the same language preferred by the user.
To make things clearer, these are currently the possible scenaries of liking my website with the Google +1 button:
1. Google +1 configured with the english URL version: brazilian users would share the post/page in english (BAD!), and american users would share the post in english (OK).
2. Google +1 configured with the portuguese URL version: brazilian users would share the post/page in portuguese (good), but american users would share the post in portuguese (not OK).
How can I (if it is possible) make Google +1 button likes count be the same for both languages and still let the user share the page in his/her own preferred language?
I don't think there is any way to have the +1 button share different URLs but have the same count, so you need some way of determining the language to display that is not based on the URL. The best way to do this is to examine the "Accept-Language" header from the HTTP request, and serve up the portuguese page if the language is pt, and the english version otherwise. Something like the following (untested code) on www.website.net/the-page:
if ($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'] != 'pt') {
header('Location: /en/the-page');
}
Hoping someone has done this before as my searches aren't coming up with anything.
The website I am building has two language sets, Spanish and English. The site has two different domain names (Not bought yet) one for Spanish speakers another for English speakers.
If a user goes to the Spanish domain everything he/she posts is assumed to be primarily in Spanish. So English speaking users that visit the site under the English domain will see that Spanish persons text translated to English. And vice versa for English to Spanish.
Google translate I have found to be the best and it doesn't change non-native language.
My issue is I can't have the "Translate" link on every post that is not in the native language of the navigated domain. I know from my DB which entries are Spanish/English, I need to utilize Google via javascript to translate them as soon as the page has loaded.
I'm hoping someone has done his already.
cheers craig
This is a SEO question :
i've the choice to display a page's title according to the culture of the visitor.
If it's an english :
<title>
<?php if ($sf_user->getCulture() == 'en') : ?>
Hello, this is an english website
<?php else ?>
Bonjour, ceci est un site français
<?php endif ?>
</title>
Does the bots/spiders has a culture ?
Does that means that on Google uk my website page will be :
"Hello, this is...."
and on Google france this will be
"Bonjour...."
Thank you
EDIT:
Anyone visiting my website will see it in English, except for France, Belgium, and maybe Canada. It can be done because getCulture() returns browser accepted & preferred languages
EDIT2:
When a user opens my website (based on HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE) :
<?php $culture = $request->getPreferredCulture(array('en', 'fr'));
$this->getUser()->setCulture($culture);
$this->getUser()->isFirstRequest(false); ?>
Please see working with multi-regional websites from the Official Google Webmaster blog. The best way to handle multiple languages is not to dynamically return different languages, but rather to have distinct domains or distinct URLs for each language. If you want to give visitors a single landing page, consider having that page redirect to the language-specific page. Also, to maximize crawling, consider having links that easily allow a user to switch to different language version of the same page.
A bot views the page in the default localization you've set up, since it's not logged in. (How would your page know which visitor comes from which country? You might be able to hack in something using a geo-ip lookup, if you wanted).
How does your site appear to non-registered in visitors?
The googlebot indexes the language it finds on your site without any login or registration. Therefore if the default view of your site is English, you'll only have English content in the Google index. This post gives more background on how sites are crawled.
The key is to provide links on your site that the bot can follow which will lead it to your content in all its various languages.
In answer to your question, no, the googlebot will not have culture since this is determined by your application and a user's preference within your application.