Different languages of site on different domains

Question

I have a site on WordPress with Polylang plugin for multi-language. I want to set different language to different domains, for example:

http://english.com - for English

http://french.com - for french

It Will be nice to have one hosting account, but two domains. I think that I should pay attention to .htaccess and redirects.

What is your opinion?

Answer 1

For the exact same site content displayed in different languages, I don't think it's a good practice to use different domains for each language. As an eg, http://www.cbsrwstaging.com uses different languages, the language can be changed from the right top 'information' menu. For each different language it simply changes its URL, eg http://www.cbsrwstaging.com/de shows the site in german , http://www.cbsrwstaging.com/ja/ show the contents in Japanese etc. This site makes use of the WPML plugin.

Answer 2

I think you should go with the subfolder solution as well. Also to keep the "strength" of the website at one .com domain and not multiple domains (or subdomains).

But both ways should be possible with one hosting account. Its more a question of the best solution for you.

Answer 3

Polylang seems to support subdomains or domains per language.

You go to Dasboard > Languages > Settings and there, you have an option "The language is set from different domains".

Here is an excerpt from the documentation describing this option:

it is possible to use subdomains (or a different domain per language). All your subdomains (or domains) must point to the same directory (where the WordPress index.php is present). Polylang checks if your domains or subdomains are correctly accessible. Otherwise, Polylang returns an error message.

And here you can find a discussion in WordPress support forum about this topic.