So far this is a prototype website, be we are really excited about its potential so we wanted to share it. In Timor it can be really hard and expensive for school kids and teachers to access books they need for class. So we are building this website to make it as easy as possible […]
We build websites to get our messages out to the whole world, so why do we write them in English only? If your audience is spread across different language groups, WPML can help to deliver your website to them in their language.
Translation is always a big job, but WPML at least makes it easy to organise, working straight out of the box for standard blogs, and powerful enough to be customised for fully featured websites. WPML is a premium priced plugin, but they do offer free lifetime subscriptions for registered not-for-profits
Here are some websites harnessing WPML to translate whole libraries, as well as just individual posts:
Taring Padi
The infamous Indonesian artist collective Taring Padi was paying too much for a host which didn’t meet their storage requirements. We migrated their site to help keep their archive of revolutionary artwork alive and online, and set up a shop for them to sell their wares internationally.
Livru Timor
Livru Timor had published a huge library of children’s books and translated them into 14 regional Timorese languages. As their library grew, their Dreamweaver site was unable to archive their massive catalogue, and it was hard for them to keep it up to date. We put WordPress to work as a fully featured CMS, managing […]