Matthew Smith completed his Ph.D. in 2012 on “Social Capital in Online Communities” while working as a researcher in the Data Mining Lab at BYU. He received his B.S. in Computer Science from BYU in December 2004 and defended his M.S. Thesis on “Implicit Affinity Networks” in December 2006. He is currently working at Lingotek as a Principal Engineer and the Director of Integrations.
Speaking session
Multilingual WordPress-How To Make Your WordPress Site Multilingual in the Beginner Developer track
Your Presentation
This presentation will give you a solid overview of multilingual capabilities in WordPress and teach you what you need to know to make your site content, plugins, and themes multilingual.
What do you want people to learn from your presentation?
- Compare plugin options to install that enable multilingual functionality
- Ensure your themes, plugins, and content are multilingual ready (internationalized)
- Translate a theme or plugin into a new language
- Send content to a translation services provider when needed
- Use typical workflow for translating posts, pages, menus, and other types of content
- Understand typical translation and editorial workflows
- Leverage machine, professional, and community translation
Why did you decide to speak?
I wanted to share both the fundamentals and some neat tips and tricks about multilingual site setup in WordPress since I’ve seen lots of companies struggle with multilingual problems.
What attracted you to WordPress in the first place?
The WordPress core infrastructure was built in a way that others could easily build in their own functionality and appearance through plugins and themes. It is robust and usable for technical and non-technical people alike.
What is your favourite plugin or theme, and why?
My favorite plugin is the Ninja Forms plugin since it is ultra flexible, gives you easy access to export the collected data, and because it solves the important problem of form building and data collection — which, traditionally takes far longer than it should.
What are you most looking forward to at WordCamp Toronto?
I’m excited to connect with the thriving community and create great things together.