Building multilingual

e-commerce sites

Ulrich Pogson

Stefan

Me

E-commerce

Easy Digital Downloads

English & German

Polylang

• Lightweight and fast
• Regular updates
• No custom tables
• Separate posts for translations

Separate posts for translations

Product

English Version

German Version

• Separate Sales
• Seperate Stock

Translated Content

• Product Descriptions

• Product Notes

Custom Post Type

Archive page

/en/themes

/en/plugins

Product Page

/en/themes/penguin-gold

Positive Side Effect

Alternatives

Sync

Split

Sum

Prefered language

• Checkout

• Newsletter

Translations

1. Content

2. Theme & Plugins strings

3. Settings

Site

Polylang string translation

EDD pages 

Transaction Emails

Currency

Multiple Currencies

Contact Forms

Same Slug

/en/themes/penguin-gold

/de/themes/penguin-gold

github.com/grappler/edd-polylang

@grapplerulrich

Thank you!