WPML

What do you like best?

First of all WPML is a very powerfull tool to create a multipligual Wordpress website. It's easy to install as any other plugin, and it's Panel Menu is easy to understand.

It provides many options to create your multilingual wordpess site or blog, it's compatible with almost wordpress theme and provides compatibility with many other plugins like Woocommerce, Contact Form 7, Mailchimp and laso a very powerfull tool - WP All Import that allows to bulk import posts, pages, and WooCommerce products. I haven't tried this one yeat but it's goof to know you have such a powerfull tool available when needed.

Inside WPML there are many other modules that enhance this product way beyond you would expect.

I purchased the life-time license already built some sites with it and I believe i still don't know all the potential of the plugin. But even if you don't have a life-time license the available licenses are affordable even to a beginner wordpress user.

What do you dislike?

There can be specific strings you can take a little longer to find and translate.

The language switcher could have more options or be more flexible in order to achieve certain looks.

While overall is a great product, it has some aspects to it that have a steeper learnng curve

I didn't found any serious problems, so I really don't have any dislikes regarding WPML since it does the job for me easily and efficiently.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

There are various articles comparing the Wordpress translations plugins out there, but having experienced other two plugins I believe WPMLI believe it's still provides the best service.

In the WPML website you should go to the Getting Started Guide. It is easy for anyone to follow with their first experience with the plugin.

Very quickly you will learn how to translate: Taxonomies, Custom fields, Image texts, Menus, Widgets, URLs, E-Commerce Sites, Forms, etc...

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

Developing a multilingual site can be a challenge without a good translation tool, but since I got WPML whenever a client needs their website or blog to be multilingual it's the tool I go to whitout hesitation. I install the plugin in the client's website and keep designing and developing with no worries.

If something new comes along I just dig a little in the plugin documentation or contact the plugin support to solve any specific issue.