multilingual permalinks

[johdah]

Hello there,

I've been looking for a translation plugin for wordpress for some time and this one is getting closer to my needs than the other ones. Just one thing missing.

Multilingual permalinks, to just add the 2-letter language code is not good enough for me. I would like to use different domains and search engine friendly urls in all languages. http://www.domain.com/keyword/ http://www.domain.se/nyckelord/

That should be possible, what do you think?

//Johan

[johdah]

Also, isn't it possible to add a lang field to the wp_posts table and put the language identification there? I'm not a dev but that seems the place to put it to me instead of the language tags.

[vale]

It's possible create another table in DB to map original permalink to translated permalinks?

[Qian Qin]

i believe gengo works this way... and yes, this would be a neat feature, but unluckily, I probably don't have enough time to implement this.

[Joy]

How much would it cost to implement this feature?

[spot]

yes, i'd also pay for such a feature if that speeds up the development time. if it's a matter of money than the developer of this fabulous plug-in should make a clear statement on the donation page that if he receives a certain amount of cash, he'll implement this and that feature with high priority.

[Qian Qin]

right now, it's more of a time problem than a money problem. donations will speed up development progress, but implementing this feature would take up quite some time. there are still some bugs in qTranslate and I'm working to get rid of them in my free time...

[johdah]

Who knows anyone who can develop this feature?

[dinsdale]

I haven't the faintest idea what is being requested by the person who started this thread, but one thing to observe about country codes and flags, is that there is not a one-to-one correspondence between them and languages. There are more living languages than there are countries.

If one is thinking globally about languages, some other way of identifying a particular language has to be adopted. Perhaps such a thing already exists.

[johdah]

[quote="dinsdale"]I haven't the faintest idea what is being requested by the person who started this thread, but one thing to observe about country codes and flags, is that there is not a one-to-one correspondence between them and languages. There are more living languages than there are countries.

If one is thinking globally about languages, some other way of identifying a particular language has to be adopted. Perhaps such a thing already exists.[/quote]

You are right, there's no one-to-one correspondence between top domains and languages but take a look at theese SEO Best Practices:

If you are targeting a specific country, targeting a specific language-speaking audience, or your web site copy is specifically for a country or language-specific audience, use a ccTLD (country code top level domain) that relates to your target country rather than a general .com domain. For example, a ccTLD would look like http://www.domain.se, http://www.domain.fr, http://www.domain.de, or http://www.domain.co.uk. If possible use ccTLDs for each language of your site.

Avoid having multiple language sites on the same domain, e.g., http://www.domain.com for English language content and http://www.domain.com/fr/ for French language content.

Make sure that there is not any duplicate content on your .com and any other sites.

Make sure your pages identify what language they are in, e.g., meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="jp"

If you cannot use a ccTLD, use a subdomain, e.g., es.domain.com. Google views a subdomain as a separate site.

With the possiblity to change the permalink for every page in all languages you could choose to have urls like es.domain.com or http://www.domain.es for spanish content.