TIV.NET INC.

Alex Gor

Gregory Karpinsky (@tivnet)

<p><strong>WPGlobus</strong> is a family of WordPress plugins assisting you in translating and maintaining bilingual/multilingual WordPress blogs and sites.</p>
<h4>Quick Start Video</h4>
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<p>Please also read the <a href="https://wpglobus.com/quick-start/" rel="nofollow ugc">Quick Start Guide</a>.</p>
<h4>Important Notes: please read before using WPGlobus!</h4>
<ul>
<li>NO AUTOMATIC TRANSLATION:
<ul>
<li>WPGlobus does NOT translate texts automatically! You will <strong>translate texts manually</strong>.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>PAGE BUILDERS / COMPOSERS:
<ul>
<li>WPGlobus supports blocks (“Gutenberg”) and WPBakery Page Builder. Other builders, such as “Page Builder by SiteOrigin”, “Beaver Builder”, Fusion (“Avada”), Elegant (“Divi”), Elementor, etc. have limited or no support.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>IF YOU UNINSTALL, YOU LOSE TRANSLATIONS:
<ul>
<li>WPGlobus stores all translations using a special format: <code>{:en}English{:}{:fr}French{:}{:es}Spanish{:}</code>. If you decide to <strong>deactivate and uninstall WPGlobus</strong>, you <strong>must run the clean-up tool</strong> to keep only one language. See the details on the “Welcome” tab in the WPGlobus Settings.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>COOKIES:
<ul>
<li>WPGlobus use browser cookies to store the selected language in the form <code>wpglobus-language=xx</code> where <code>xx</code> is a two-letter language code: <code>en</code>, <code>de</code>, <code>fr</code>, etc.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>NO MULTISITE:
<ul>
<li>The <strong>multisite</strong> mode (multiple virtual sites sharing a single WordPress installation) is <strong>not tested and not supported</strong>.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>FREE PLUGIN with PAID EXTENSIONS:
<ul>
<li>Some functionality is available only with our <strong>premium add-ons</strong>. Details below.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>OLD PHP / OLD WORDPRESS:
<ul>
<li>We develop and test our software using the <strong>latest versions of PHP, WordPress, and all plugins</strong>. If you have an older version and something is not working properly – please upgrade before contacting us.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>MBSTRING:
<ul>
<li>For the full UTF-8 compatibility and better performance, please make sure that the <a href="https://www.php.net/manual/en/intro.mbstring.php" rel="nofollow ugc">Multibyte String</a> PHP extension is enabled.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h4>What is in the FREE version of WPGlobus?</h4>
<p>The WPGlobus plugin provides you with the general multilingual tools.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Manually translate</strong> posts, pages, categories, tags, menus, and widgets;</li>
<li><strong>Add one or several languages</strong> to your WP blog/site using custom combinations of country flags, locales and language names;</li>
<li><strong>Enable multilingual SEO features</strong> of “Yoast SEO” plugin;</li>
<li><strong>Switch the languages at the front-end</strong> using: a drop-down menu extension and/or a customizable widget with various display options;</li>
<li><strong>Switch the Administrator interface language</strong> using a top bar selector;</li>
</ul>
<p>The WPGlobus plugin serves as the <strong>foundation</strong> to other plugins in the family.</p>
<h4>When do I need WPGlobus Premium Add-ons?</h4>
<ul>
<li>To translate URLs (<code>/my-page/</code> translates to <code>/fr/ma-page</code>, <code>/es/mi-pagina</code> and so on);</li>
<li>To “postpone” translation to all languages and publish only those that are ready;</li>
<li>To have completely separate menus for each language;</li>
<li>To translate WooCommerce products and taxonomies;</li>
<li>To have separate “focus keywords” for each language in the Yoast SEO;</li>
<li>…and more.</li>
</ul>
<p>For more details, please check out the descriptions of each paid add-on on our website:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wpglobus.com/product/woocommerce-wpglobus/" rel="nofollow ugc">WooCommerce WPGlobus</a>: adds multilingual capabilities to WooCommerce-based online stores.</li>
<li><a href="https://wpglobus.com/product/wpglobus-plus/" rel="nofollow ugc">WPGlobus Plus</a>: adds URL fine-tuning, publishing status per translation, multilingual Yoast SEO analysis and more.</li>
<li><a href="https://wpglobus.com/product/wpglobus-language-widget/" rel="nofollow ugc">WPGlobus Language Widgets</a>: Multilingual widget logic: show and hide widget depending on the current language.</li>
<li><a href="https://wpglobus.com/product/wpglobus-header-images/" rel="nofollow ugc">WPGlobus Header Images</a>: Display different header images per language. Show images depending on the settings in the Customizer.</li>
<li><a href="https://wpglobus.com/product/wpglobus-menu-visibility/" rel="nofollow ugc">WPGlobus Menu Visibility</a>: Show or hide menu items depending on the current language.</li>
<li><a href="https://wpglobus.com/product/wpglobus-mobile-menu/" rel="nofollow ugc">WPGlobus Mobile Menu</a>: makes the WPGlobus language switcher menu compatible with mobile devices and narrow screens.</li>
<li><a href="https://wpglobus.com/product/wpglobus-for-bridge-theme/" rel="nofollow ugc">WPGlobus for the “Bridge” theme</a>: create different sliders for each language when using theme “Bridge”.</li>
<li><a href="https://wpglobus.com/product/wpglobus-for-ultimate-member/" rel="nofollow ugc">WPGlobus for Ultimate Member</a>: enables multilingual for all forms of the Ultimate Member (login, registration, user profile, etc), the Member Directories pages, the admin settings that are visible on frontend.</li>
<li><a href="https://wpglobus.com/product/wpglobus-multilingual-popups/" rel="nofollow ugc">WPGlobus Multilingual Popups</a>: enables multilingual support for the following plugins: Popup Maker – Popup for opt-ins, lead gen, & more; Popup Builder — Responsive WordPress Pop up.</li>
<li><a href="https://wpglobus.com/product/wpglobus-multilingual-notices/" rel="nofollow ugc">WPGlobus Multilingual Notices</a>: adds the multilanguage capabilities to various WordPress GDPR/cookie notifications plugins.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Compatibility with WordPress Themes</h4>
<ul>
<li>WPGlobus works correctly with all themes that apply proper filtering before outputting content.</li>
<li>As most of the themes save their settings in the <code>options</code> table, you can use the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpglobus-translate-options/" rel="ugc">WPGlobus Translate Options</a> plugin to process those settings correctly.</li>
<li>Some themes incorporate 3rd party plugins (e.g., sliders, forms, composers) – not all of them are 100% multilingual-ready. When you see elements that cannot be translated, please <strong>tell the theme/plugin authors</strong>. We are ready to help them.</li>
<li>Read more on the topic <a href="https://wpglobus.com/documentation/wpglobus-compatibility-with-themes-and-plugins/" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Compatibility with WordPress Plugins</h4>
<p>We have tested WPGlobus with many plugins. However, since plugins are frequently updated, some adjustments may be required after a new update. We will do our best to monitor and make the necessary changes on our end.</p>
<p>Some 3rd-party plugins are supported with our <a href="https://wpglobus.com/shop/" rel="nofollow ugc">premium add-ons</a>:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wpglobus.com/product/wpglobus-plus/#tablepress" rel="nofollow ugc">TablePress</a>,</li>
<li><a href="https://wpglobus.com/product/woocommerce-wpglobus/" rel="nofollow ugc">WooCommerce and some of its extensions</a>,</li>
</ul>
<h4>Permalinks</h4>
<p><strong>IMPORTANT:</strong> WPGlobus will not work if your URLs look like <code>example.com?p=123</code> or <code>example.com/index.php/category/post/</code>.</p>
<p>Please go to <code>Settings->Permalinks</code> and change the permalink structure to non-default and with no <code>index.php</code> in it. If you are unable to do that for some reason, please talk to your hosting provider or systems administrator.</p>
<p><strong>Note:</strong> WooCommerce adds their own section to the Permalinks. It is important to fill in all the information. For example, you need to specify your Shop Base, for example, <code>/product/</code>. If you leave it blank, WooCommerce will try to translate the base (eg <code>/produkt/</code> for German), which will result in a 404 error.</p>
<h4>Developing on `localhost` or custom ports</h4>
<p>WPGlobus may not work correctly on development servers having URLs like <code>//localhost/mysite</code> or on custom ports like <code>//myserver.dev:3000</code>. Please use a proper domain name (a fake one from <code>/etc/hosts</code> is OK), and port 80.</p>


WPGlobus – Multilingual WordPress

This is a fantastic plugin and very well coded.

A customer noticed a small compatibility issue with the plugin and my Total theme where certain background color settings wouldn't work in the customizer. This is because some of my settings are named using the format "element_background" and it looks like the plugin only excludes settings with the word "color" in them. 

Anyway, it was very easy to browse through their code since it's very clean and well commented to locate the "wpglobus_customize_disabled_setting_mask" filter so I could exclude settings that also have _background and _bg in the setting name.

The plugin is extremely developer friendly.

Great work!

Awesome plugin and well coded

Multilingual/Globalization: URL-based multilanguage with an easy translation interface.

<p><strong>WPGlobus Featured Images</strong> is an extension to the WPGlobus plugin. It allows setting featured images separately for each language.</p>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>NOTE:</strong> You need to install and activate the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpglobus/" rel="ugc">WPGlobus Multilingual Plugin</a> before installing the WPGlobus Featured Images extension.</p>
</blockquote>
<h4>More info</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wpglobus.com/add-ons/featured-images/" rel="nofollow ugc">WPGlobus Featured Images home page</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/WPGlobus/wpglobus-featured-images" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub code repository</a>.</li>
</ul>


WPGlobus Featured Images

WPGlobus Featured Images is an extension to the WPGlobus plugin. It allows setting featured images separately for each language.

WPGlobus – Multilingual WordPress vs WPGlobus Featured Images