How to Easily Translate Your Blocksy WordPress Site using WPML

Translating your website is a great way to start reaching international clients, building a multilingual SEO presence, and growing your sales. One thing your competitors haven’t figured out yet? It’s easy to do with the right theme and plugin.

Check out the following video to see how WPML can translate an entire Blocksy site in just a few minutes:

Why Translate Your Blocksy WordPress Site?

Translating your website isn’t just about offering content in multiple languages—it’s about unlocking the potential for global growth, building stronger customer relationships, and gaining a competitive edge. Here are the key benefits of translating your site:

• Most of the internet’s users are non-English speakers. By translating your site, you make your content accessible to a broader audience, helping you tap into new markets.
• A multilingual site allows you to rank in search engines for multiple languages, driving organic traffic and improving visibility in different regions.
• Customers are more likely to trust and purchase from a site in their native language. It shows that you care about their experience and are invested in serving their needs.
• A localized experience reduces friction in the buying process, leading to higher conversion rates. When customers feel comfortable navigating your site, they’re more likely to complete purchases.
• Many small to medium-sized businesses don’t invest in multilingual websites. Translating your site can set you apart from competitors and position your brand as global and customer-focused.

3 Simple Steps to Translate Your Blocksy Site Using WPML

As you already know, Blocksy makes it easy to build a fast and beautiful site without any coding skills. And because it’s multilingual-ready, you can translate that site in as few as three steps with WPML!

Step 1: Install WPML and Its Components

WPML comes with a lightweight Installer plugin, which allows you to register your plugin and install any WPML components you might need. For most sites, you’ll need the WPML core and String Translation plugins.

If you’re running an ecommerce site, WPML also includes WooCommerce Multilingual, which allows you to translate products, product attributes, variations, and more, plus set up multiple currencies.

Step 2: Configure WPML for Your Multilingual Site

WPML’s setup wizard walks you through all the important steps of setting up a multilingual site: choosing your site’s languages, deciding how to format your URL, and enabling one of WPML’s translation modes.

Translate Everything mode automatically translates all of your site’s content as you publish or edit it. This means you can simply create content, and WPML translates all of it in the background. When you edit a page, WPML updates the translations.

After completing the setup wizard, sit back and relax as WPML automatically translates your site. Plus, you can rest easy knowing that you own your site’s translations – they’re saved in your own database, not in a company’s cloud.

Step 3: Review and Perfect Your Translations

Machine translation has come a long way over the years, and WPML offers your choice of Microsoft, Google Translate, and DeepL to power automatic translation on your site. However, it’s good practice to check your automatic translations for accuracy and fluency.

Translate Everything mode gives you the option of holding your translations for review before publishing, publishing then reviewing, or skipping the review all together. No matter which option you choose, you can always go in and edit your translations, or hire a certified translation reviewer to do it for you.

Blocksy and WPML: A Seamless Integration for Multilingual Success

Together, Blocksy and WPML are committed to ongoing compatibility with each other. This means you’re less likely to experience issues when using them together, and any issues that do pop up are quickly resolved. Here’s how Blocksy enhances the translation process when paired with WPML:

1. The dynamic design elements automatically adapt to translated content, so you don’t have to worry about broken layouts or misplaced elements.
2. Blocksy’s RTL-ready themes automatically adjust the layout to support right-to-left text, ensuring proper alignment for all design elements.
3. Blocksy’s Customizer and Gutenberg blocks are fully supported by WPML, allowing you to translate widgets, headers, footers, and custom blocks with ease.
4. Blocksy’s modular design lets you enable only the features you need, minimizing resource usage and maintaining speed.
5. Blocksy offers advanced typography settings, allowing you to customize fonts for each language.
6. Blocksy’s seamless WooCommerce integration works perfectly with WPML’s WooCommerce Multilingual plugin, ensuring all eCommerce elements are fully translatable.
7. Both Blocksy and WPML prioritize ongoing compatibility, quickly addressing any issues that arise with new WordPress versions or plugin updates.

It’s a reliable, and surprisingly easy option to build a multilingual site and take the next step with your business.