Does anyone find that, compared to the multisite approach, implementing multilingual capability using the plugin approach (eg WPML, Polylang etc) is simply far too risky as long as there’s a chance that you might need to enhance your site through the adoption of other plugins in the future, since it’s far from a guarantee that the plugin that fits your requirements is going to work with the multilingual plugin at all?
For eg, we’ve got a bilingual site that’s running on the Polylang plugin, and recently we’ve found an event management plugin that fits perfectly our need (while the others we’ve evaluated don’t even come close). The problem is, the plugin doesn’t work with Polylang at all. Now we’re seriously considering switching to the multisite approach. Yes it might be silly to do this just to get one plugin going, but we’re thinking – what if we compromised and picked a subpar event management plugin now to avoid having to go multisite, and then a year or two down the line we find ourselves in the exact same situation with yet another plugin? Why not bite the bullet and go multisite right now?
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Multisite is very different to multilingual. A multilingual plugins do a bunch of other stuff under the hood, link canonical links (i.e. links the same pages together for different languages, which is needed for google to index your site correctly), and hreflang tags, which tells google what language your page is. https://developers.google.com/search/docs/specialty/international/localized-versions
Whilst it is possible to do all that in a multisite, it requires custom fields and custom coding.
Multi site networks are not easy and can cause a great deal of headache. Also a lot of plugins don’t work with Multisite or don’t even know they don’t work with Multi-site.
In Many occasions, I have had to revert back and just use subdomains.
You really need to know what you are doing with Multi-site or you will be trying to troubleshoot things until 1 month from now.
Are you planning to create a multilingual WordPress website but unsure whether to use multilingual plugins or set up a multisite installation? In this comprehensive guide, we’ll compare the two approaches, examining their benefits, drawbacks, and suitability for different scenarios, so you can make an informed decision for your website.
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[https://rainocode.com/blog/multilingual-plugins-vs-multisite-for-wordpress](https://rainocode.com/blog/multilingual-plugins-vs-multisite-for-wordpress)