Elementor free templates to achieve multi-language page operation guide

expense or outlay Elementor When building a website, many people use the large number of free templates it offers. These templates are beautiful, easy to use, suitable for quickly creating the home page, about page, service page and other content. But if you are oriented to overseas users, hope to support bilingual, or even multilingual browsing, you must let these templates support language switching.

Here's a step-by-step guide that will take you through the process of switching between multiple languages without upgrading Pro or requiring too much technical complexity.

Step 1: Install the multilingual plugin

Elementor does not come with language switching, so you need to use WordPress to switch between languages. Multi-language plug-insto realize the switching and management of page language versions.

Commonly used free plugins are:

• Polylang(Recommended)
  Simple, lightweight and compatible for beginners;
• TranslatePress
  Supports front-end visual translation for users who wish to manually cross-reference changes;
• WPML Lite
  Powerful, but more restrictive for free users.

Here is the list of Polylang As an example, the procedure is explained.

Step 2: Configure the site's multilingual structure

• Go to WordPress backend > Plugins > Install Plugin, search and install it Polylang.;

• After the installation is complete, enter the "Language" settings, add the language version you need to support, such as Chinese and English;

• The plugin automatically creates a separate version of pages and posts for each language;
• Language switching options also appear in the system backend, making it easy for you to add different content for different languages.

Step 3: Copy and translate the Elementor page

Elementor free templates are created as Pages and default to the gutenberg editor, so you can handle multilingual pages this way:

• In the Pages list, find the page you created with the template;
• Click on the "+" sign in the Language column on the right to create another language version for it;

• The system will copy the original page structure, but with empty content;
• Open this page and re-edit it with Elementor, changing the text to the target language (e.g. English);
• Once saved, the page will not interfere with the original page language.

Step 4: Add language switching function

Once the page content is set up, users need to be able to switch languages easily. polylang provides several ways to add language switcher.

• Go to Backend > Appearance > Widgets and add "Language Switcher" to the menu, footer or sidebar;

• If you use the Elementor ProInstead, it can be dragged directly into Polylang's Language Switcher module (but free users have the option of adding it manually from the menu);
• You can also use the "Menu Settings" function to add a language button in the main menu to link to the corresponding page.

Step 5: Check URL and SEO Settings

Polylang adds a different link structure for each language by default:

• Chinese home page:example.com/zh/
• English home page:example.com/en/

It is recommended to name the aliases (slugs) of each language page in a unified way to keep the logic consistent and easy for users to remember. For example:

• Chinese product page:example.com/zh/products
• English product page:example.com/en/products

If you are using the RankMath maybe Yoast SEO plugin, you can also set your own SEO titles, descriptions and keywords for different language versions to improve search performance.

Frequently Asked Questions

1. Does Elementor Free Edition support multi-language templates?
Support, the template is just the page structure, as long as with the multi-language plugin, you can realize the language version of the copy and independent editing.

2. Will the page design be messed up?
It won't. Each language version of the page is a separate copy, and the content and style can be identical or partially adjusted.

3. Can images, buttons and forms also be multilingual?
All text fields in the Elementor editor can have their language changed manually, and button links can be set individually.

summarize

Even if you use Elementor free templates, you can still create professional multilingual pages. With a good multilingual plugin like Polylang, with reasonable page structure and language switching design, your website can easily serve visitors from different countries or regions.

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