Multilingual with Polylang

The All-in-one Video Gallery plugin is 100% translation-ready and compatible with WPML. Since WPML is a premium plugin, alternatively, you can also use the Polylang plugin. This document will help you create a multilingual video gallery website using the Polylang plugin for free.

The main goal of this document is to educate on how to use the All-in-One Video Gallery plugin with Polylang. So, we don’t go through the steps of installing & configuring Polylang. We would suggest checking their official Polylang documentation for these instructions.

Note: Kindly follow the instructions below in the same order this tutorial is written.

1. Configure Videos, Categories & Tags as translatable

Assuming that you already have the Polylang plugin installed and set up on your website. Then, the first step is to enable our plugin’s post types and taxonomies on the Polylang plugin’s settings page.

Navigate to “Dashboard / Languages / Settings“, locate the “Custom post types and Taxonomies” section, click on the “Settings” link, select “Videos (aiovg_videos)“, “Video Categories (aiovg_categories)” & “Video Tags (aiovg_tags)” options, and click “Save Changes“.

Now, Polylang would add “+” icons in our plugin’s Videos, Categories, and Tags pages to translate them to the other languages on your website.

But, before start translating the videos, we need to translate the standard WordPress pages added by our plugin during the installation and also the Categories & Tags.

2. Translate custom WordPress pages added by our plugin

During the installation, our plugin adds a few pages dynamically on your website that are internally used by the plugin. Following are those pages and you can find them under the “Dashboard / Pages” menu. Kindly translate these pages to all your site languages.

1. Video Category
2. Search Videos
3. User Videos
4. Player Embed
5. User Dashboard
6. Video Form

Each of the above pages (except “Player Embed”) includes a special shortcode in the page description. All these translated pages must include their relevant shortcode.

With “Polylang”, you might be surprised to discover your page or post content is not copied to another language version. Upon adding a new language version, you will find just a clean new page or post.

Unless you’re a Polylang Pro user (Pro comes with a “Duplicate content” feature), we suggest using the “Duplicate Page” plugin.

Instead of adding all your content and designs manually for each language, you can duplicate pages or posts. Once you translate the duplicated page, just link it to the original one, and it’s done.

As an example, we will show you how to clone our “Category page” and link different page versions. To start, make sure you activate the “Duplicate Page” plugin next to “Polylang”.

Let us show you how to do it:

Step 1 – Navigate to “Dashboard / Pages” to edit pages (you can also do this for our videos);

Step 2 – Click on the “Duplicate This” option under the page to clone it. You will see a new draft page appearing in the pages list with the same name;

Step 3 – Click on the “Edit” option under the cloned (draft) page and adjust the page title;

Step 4 – In the page settings (on the right side), scroll down to the “Languages” section and set the cloned page language. Here, we set the language to French;

Step 5 – In the same section, connect this page with the original page. Just click on the original page language field and start typing the page’s title – click on the original page name once it pops out in the list.

Step 6 – As you will notice, the cloned page contains the exact copy of the content found on the original page. Now you need to adjust and update the content on your cloned page. You can translate the text and adjust the rest of your content and design as you wish. Click on the “Publish” button to save.

Great, you just created your page translation.

Now you can repeat these steps for all pages and languages. You can also translate all of your videos this way.

3. Translate Categories & Tags

The next step is to translate the categories and tags added using our plugin.

Navigate to “Dashboard / Video Gallery / Video Categories” and you will notice the Polylang language options for each category. All categories are in your default language, and the column contains flags of the other language available.

To create a category version in another language, just click on the “+” icon in the desired language column, enter the translated category name, and click on the “Add New Category” button.

Congrats, you have translated a category.

Now you can repeat these steps for all categories and languages.

Follow the same steps to translate the tags (Dashboard / Video Gallery / Video Tags).

4. Translate Videos

Now, it’s time to translate the videos.

Navigate to “Dashboard / Video Gallery / All Videos” and follow the same instructions that you followed to translate the pages (Dashboard / Pages) to translate the videos.

5. Finally, Translation Strings

The final step is to translate the user input strings added using our “All-in-One Video Gallery” plugin’s settings pages.

Navigate to “Dashboard / Languages / Translations” and use the input field there to translate each of the user-defined strings.

That’s it.

Now, the Videos, Categories, and Tags display in their own language on your site’s front end.