Multilingual WooCommerce Webshop for Intoleran

A WordPress WooCommerce Webshop in multiple languages

Complex enough you might say, especially since it was Intoleran's priority to develop products by country to be able to manage in a shop. And that is what we developed. A Woocommerce webshop in a Multisite environment that is easy to manage and, as the icing on the cake, provided with a custom translation plugin. Especially for Intoleran we have developed the unique WordPress translation plugin Mooltilang developed that works with WordPress multisite. A real custom solution to provide all languages.

Intoleran wanted by Van Ons:

• An international Have a WooCommerce webshop created
• Have a WordPress translation plugin developed that works well with multisite
• Easily set up product management for multiple product feeds

Translation plugin for WooCommerce: Mooltilang

Intoleran needed a translation plugin. A WordPress plugin that can directly convert sites and webshop products into another language. One that works well with Multisite. The solution for this seemed obvious. After all, there are many options that solve this problem, such as popular WordPress plugins WPML and Polylang. The problem is that these plugins are certainly not lightweight options, let alone that they are suitable for working with webshops whose offering differs per country. The challenge for our developers is to find a solution for this. custom solution to be found.

And it came. After long research into such plugins, our WordPress developers decided on our own in-house translation plugin called Mooltilang to develop. This plugin essentially does the same thing as Polylang, but works a lot faster and better with Multisite and writes everything neatly away in the database. This way the content remains structured, even if you are going to move it. And this makes it a lot easier for Intoleran to switch between all the languages ​​they use. Local product management via the shop in particular works better with Mooltilang.

Because the offering varies from country to country, it is important that the right products are offered and translated correctly. As can be seen here on the left in Italian, for example.

An important aspect is being able to manage the product feed locally.

Local products in an international WooCommerce Webshop

An important aspect of this project was the provision of products by local managers. For example, the presentation in Italy may differ from Germany. The same applies to the Netherlands or France. Here too, the use of the Multisite environment was the right solution. Responding to local needs and supplies could easily be accommodated in this way.

WooCommerce Webshop in a WordPress Multisite environment

WordPress Multisite is a version of WordPress that allows you to have multiple sites under one WordPress dashboard. Intoleran can use domain names like intoleran.it, intoleran.nl or intoleran.fr in this way, but with an option to manage everything centrally. In addition, new sites can easily be added when the company decides to tap into a new market. And of course WooCommerce fits in perfectly with that.

So WordPress Multisite is best used when you create a network of sites that share similar functionalities. Functionalities such as plug-ins, custom applications or specific server configurations. Additionally, it works best when used on a limited number of themes created specifically for the network's purposes, rather than allowing network members to use their own custom themes.

“Thanks to Van Ons, we can realize a wonderful restart of our brand.”

What does the customer think?

The new Intoleran webshop was set up in no time. We are also particularly impressed by the loading speed. Thanks to Van Ons, we can realize a wonderful growth of our brand.

Harmen Treep

Managing Director

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