In actual fact, there is no technical need to have a multilingual WordPress. Let me explain a bit more here. I have been blogging multilingual now for over a year and have never had and language problems - all posts are doing fine. The tricky bit was to get the website architecture tuned properly.
The real issue I was faced with is more market oriented: Blogging (or simply creating a website) isn't a matter of mere translation. There are issues that require attention in one market that perhaps are superfluous for another audience - this happens to me all the time.
So it's really not a matter of having a plugin to translate things from one language to another, but to have the liberty to write freely in all the languages you are using without having to fall into a grid that your CMS is forcing onto your website.
This is what we are doing as far as multilingual is concerned.
Secondly there is a major limitation about WordPress: the template.
Every modification you wish to implement WordPress requires modifications on the template - we have come up with a solution that will allow the user to add new menus to the template without coding the page, but by simply modifying a parameter via the WordPress back end administration.
This means that WordPress will really be a CMS and that everyone and their dog will be in a position to use it as if it were a CMS.
If you have any further suggestions or comments on our approach please do share them with me and the others in the forum.
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