Thread: Multiple Locations/Languages Question

Multiple Locations/Languages Question

Hey everyone, first of all I think I'm in LOVE with this theme

I would like to separate sites for multiple countries.

Should I install a Classipress for each country in different subfolders?

www.domain.com/country1
www.domain.com/country2

etc?

Or is there a more elegant solution.

What if I have more than 1 language? Does this compound the number of required installations?

Thanks for your help!

Re: Multiple Locations/Languages Question

I'm also interested in how to use CP as a multi language site.

One thing to consider is the currency sign that CP inserts into every post. This would need to be different depending on the country... but you can only choose one sign from within admin. Having separate installations of classipress could get around this.

Also could give some countries their own domain: example.com, example.co.uk, example.ca etc

Whether best to configure a single install for multi-language, or do separate installs, I'm still not sure what to do. Separate installations, means a user has a separate dashboard if posting in multiple countries.

I haven't looked much into multi-lingual/translation plugins but maybe they can help.

Re: Multiple Locations/Languages Question - input appreciated!

Well... For starters in my particular installation there is not default currency that is placed in the ads. Not sure why but when I insert a $ symbol manually it works fine. There's the first solution--disable the default currency selection..

2nd considation is that having multiple wordpress installs and multiple databases just seems like a waste of resources (& time) and doesn't seem like a really elegant solution. Am I mistaken?

For example we could combine databases by having different table prefixes... My technical knowledge isn't good enough to know how the software would differentiate between the databases.

If we made a change like installing a plugin or changing a footer we'd presumably want the change to be rolled out over all the region specific sites.

Would be great to have some input from a learned & wise developer... From a architecture point of view we've decided to keep everything on 1 domain, subdomains for the different regions...

e.g. http://country1.domain.com/category/post-title

Really need to get this figured out before we roll out though! Any input appreciated