I can separate my answer to two sections Recommended: A bit about the translation plugins Nothing wrong if you use Polylang, WPML or QTranslate or other, those plugins are widely used and are for that purpose, also actively maintained. Also, those plguins support Arabic language very well. Switching posts Plugins like Polylang, WPML and other … Read more
You can use a filter to modify the value before it is set function __language_attributes($lang){ // ignore the supplied argument $langs = array( ‘en-US’, ‘KO’, ‘JA’ ); // change to whatever you want $my_language = $langs[0]; // return the new attribute return ‘lang=”‘.$my_language.'”‘; } add_filter(‘language_attributes’, ‘__language_attributes’); Then just make sure your theme header has the … Read more
There are two ways to setup a multisite network, using subdomains and using subdirectories. Your current setup is for subdirectories and to change the URLs the way you want them you‘ll need to change the setup to use subdomains. This is a great article explaining the difference between those two setups and how to change … Read more
This post provides a function, but it cannot handle non-latin characters. That’s because URLs can’t have non-latin/ASCII characters. Browsers might show non-latin characters to you, but it’s just a user interface feature. For example, if you visit this Wiktionary URL: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/わかもの#Japanese, you browser URL encodes the japanese characters to get the real URL: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E3%82%8F%E3%81%8B%E3%82%82%E3%81%AE#Japanese then … Read more
You already have it in the code: __( ‘Your message will only be visible after manual moderation’, ‘your_text_domain’ ) __ is a translation function and part of the static string translation system in WordPress core. Polylang might allow you to translate dynamic content, but __() and its friends are for static strings. These use the … Read more
It’s possible to achieve this with WordPress Multisite feature. I did this before – with “subfolder” settings, you can create two websites (with one WP instance), example.com/en/ and example.com/de/ … But I did it only once when I didn’t know better. And it was pain in the … to maintain. Then I found Polylang plugin, … Read more
Try <?php wp_reset_query(); ?> after each function. See Function Reference/wp reset query « WordPress Codex
Themes have their own language files. Look in your themes folder for a po file: /wp-content/themes/yourtheme/
You need to set a locale filter, please see: http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/locale for an example, Enjoy,
Poedit is the way to go fro translating most of your plugins. WPMl is doing quite a good job, though, at parsing plugins and themes strings for translation purposes. You should give it a try.