Your site's own language (under Settings → Language & time → Site language) is the main language. Multilingual adds others, each with its own addresses, such as /fr/....

Add the language

  1. Open Languages → Languages (administrators only).
  2. Under Add a language, pick one from Language, or type a code such as fr or pt-BR, and optionally a Name such as "Français".
  3. Add it. Tick Visitors can see it and press Save when you're ready to publish it.

Translate your content

  • Languages → Translations: open a page or post and fill in each text next to the original, including its address.
  • Languages → Menu and site texts: your menu and site-wide texts.
  • Commerce products and Bookings services are listed here too, if you use those extensions.

Choose how visitors reach each language (Languages → Settings)

  • Language switcher: Under the footer or Floating in the corner, as a Dropdown or List of links, with or without flags. You can also place one anywhere with the Language switcher element in the page builder.
  • Pages without a translation: show the original with a short notice, or leave them out of that language.
  • Send first-time visitors of the home page to their browser language: only on the home page, once per visit. Search engines always see the main language.
  • Give your main language a prefix too: off keeps its current addresses.

Visitor texts lets you reword what the switcher and the untranslated-page notice say.

Search engines are told about each version with hreflang tags, which Multilingual adds for you.