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Anh Tran.
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April 9, 2018 at 8:43 PM #9133
david.h
ParticipantHi Anh,
I read your post on Multilingual plugins (https://metabox.io/best-wordpress-multilingual-plugins-reviews) with interest as it is something that I have been considering for a while.
Too often it seems that WordPress developers turn to complex or bloated plugins to provide functionality that can be better achieved using a multi-purpose framework or toolkit.
It would seem to me that the Metabox framework can do language translations without any additional plugins. Here are my basic thoughts on how it could be achieved:
1) Create TAXONOMIES for all supported LANGUAGES (approximately 100+)
2) Create the BASE post and assign the post's LANGUAGE to the relevant language TAXONOMY
3) Create TRANSLATED post(s) and relate them to the BASE post using MB Relationships
4) Create a URL structure like example.com/LANGUAGE/BASE or example.com/LANGUAGE/TRANSLATEDThe flexible, extensible nature of Metabox could enable separate tables per LANGUAGE using MB Custom Table which (if properly indexed) would drastically speed free-text searching per LANGUAGE.
Clearly the above is highly simplified, but conceptually could be integrated anywhere (BBPress, REST, etc) using a variant of the method outlined in https://support.metabox.io/topic/custom-forum-posts
What are your thoughts?
April 10, 2018 at 4:26 PM #9144Anh Tran
KeymasterHi David,
I was thinking about the same thing :).
The job of connecting original and translated posts is not hard and Meta Box can do that easily. I guess all plugins such as WPML, Polylang already do that well.
The hardest part comes from connecting other things such as featured image, menu, widget.
But if you passionate about this idea, let's create a repo on Github and create an MVP.
April 12, 2018 at 9:53 PM #9190ParticipantHi Anh,
I am certainly interested in pursing this with you.
However, my full stack development experience (15+ years) comes from .NET/MsSQL so I'm still relatively new to open source platforms and PHP/MySQL.
Do you want to create the repo under github.com/wpmetabox?
As an aside, is there a way to filter forum threads? I cannot find a "My Posts" link to quickly find all threads I have started.
Thanks,
DavidApril 13, 2018 at 8:24 AM #9196KeymasterYes, Github is a great place for collaboration. I've just created the repo at:
https://github.com/wpmetabox/mb-multilingual
And to find your posts, click on your avatar or nick name (on the left of any reply), you'll be taken to forum profile page, where you can see all your topics and replies.
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