Multilingual WordPress

[Kirana]

Multilingual WordPress maintenance has been more difficult for me than translating the content itself. Caching and theme-level global settings make the cause difficult to isolate because several systems can affect the same menu. For people running multilingual affiliate sites: do you maintain separate menus manually, or have you found a translation workflow that stays reliable over time?

[CasinosBroker]

Multilingual WordPress maintenance has been more difficult for me than translating the content itself. Caching and theme-level global settings make the cause difficult to isolate because several systems can affect the same menu. For people running multilingual affiliate sites: do you maintain separate menus manually, or have you found a translation workflow that stays reliable over time?

We're using Linguise as a translator plugin, and have been using it for a while now...

To answer your question, in my opinion, I'd go with the option which is simpler to maintain and is stable from all points of view.

[arix]

the menu problem usually comes from the page cache not varying by language. if the cache key is only the url path and the language is picked by cookie or browser settings, one language version gets cached and served to everyone. a language folder like /de/ for every version fixes most of it, because each language then has its own url and its own cache entry.

for the menus i would keep one menu per language registered in the theme and assign them through the translation plugin, instead of translating one menu on the fly. a bit more setup, but when something breaks you can see which layer did it.