Create a multi-regional, multi-lingual website with ease with Craft CMS.

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Global organisations need global solutions and in today's interconnected world, multi-lingual capability is a fundamental requirement for many businesses.

With Craft CMS, setting up and managing a global digital presence that resonates with your audience in their preferred language is seamless and efficient. Multi-site set-up is baked into Craft’s core, and at any time a single-language site can be turned into a multi-regional, multi-lingual powerhouse, extending a business’s reach to audiences worldwide.

Once in place, companies can effortlessly distribute content across all of their regions - ensuring consistent information availability for their global clientele, in their respective local languages - strengthening the company's international presence, while engaging locally.

Craft multisite allows site owners to run multiple regional websites from a single Craft install.

From a development perspective, this means one code base, one license, one host and one set of maintenance - making it financially effective and highly efficient.

From a marketing perspective, it means complete consistency across regions and one backend for content managers to manage (though you can also leverage user settings to give different teams access to different regions). Content is managed at entry level and with multi-site, both sections and entries can be included (or not) per region, making it quick and easy to publish content, especially frequently updated editorial content such as news articles, across multiple regional websites, or just one region, as needed.

It’s important to note that the CMS doesn't do the actual translation, but makes the management and serving of the content on a regional basis super simple.

Despite the admin console being located on one backend, the frontend of each region can be served wherever you wish. Some businesses go for a single domain with a regional extension (ie. weareabstrakt.com/en) for each region/language, while others favour separate subdomains (ie. uk.weareabstrakt.com) or even domain (weareabstrakt.co.uk). Whichever route you choose, including an intuitive language switcher is an important addition.

Craft CMS stands out as a formidable tool for crafting multi-site websites, giving you everything you need to develop a web presence that resonates with users worldwide.