Multilingual Registration Page

[meiguoacademies]

How do I make my registration page multilingual? I see how I can make the custom fields multilingual, but what about the default fields, e.g. username, first name, last name, etc.? Thanks!

[Cristián Lávaque]

You mean being in more than one language or just one non-English language?

[meiguoacademies]

Being in more than one language. My site will have both English and Mandarin speakers.

[Cristián Lávaque]

I see. i don't know how that'd be done. You should search how to make WordPress multilingual, that should cover the registration part.

Now, in my simple mind, what I'd probably do in that situation is create two installs, one for each language. Then, if I wanted the user to have access to both languages with the same account, I'd research how to share the users between the installs.

Sorry I can't be of much help with this problem.

[meiguoacademies]

Sounds like a plan. My site already is multilingual on the backend. How could I create two installs? s2Member carries over to the dashboard on both language pages.

[Cristián Lávaque]

When you say your site is multilingual, do you mean you have a WordPress blog that you can change the language for clicking a link?

About creating two installs, it's the same as installing one WordPress, but then doing it again in another dir. Probably /en/ and /zh/ and would redirect the root dir / to the language I want to default to.

[meiguoacademies]

Yes. By click of a link, I can change my backend to my Chinese pages and I translate the site manually--meaning I have a company translator and I don't use Google Translate (or the like). The plugin I use is WPML. I've put my issue on their forum as well. I think what you're suggesting is what WPML is doing already. I'll wait until I hear back from them because it sounds like they are more likely to have a fix for this issue. Thanks!

[Cristián Lávaque]

Cool! Let us know how it goes, please.