After installing and activating RosettaPress, the first step in setting up your multilingual environment is to create individual sites for each language – then group them together using a Language Group.

RosettaPress lets you do both directly from its Language Groups interface in the Network Admin.

Step 1: Create Language-Specific Sites

1. Go to Network Admin → RosettaPress → Language Groups.
2. If no subsites exist yet for your languages, click “Create new site”.
3. Fill in the following fields for each site:
   • Domain – Set the URL (e.g., /de/, /fr/, /es/)
   • Name – Site title (used in the admin)
   • Language – Select the language for this site
   • Based on site – (Optional) Clone content from an existing site
   • Exclude tables – (Optional) Skip specific database tables (e.g., analytics, cache)
   • Copy users with roles – Select user roles to copy from the source site

Click Create new site to add each one. Repeat for all required languages.

Step 2: Create a Language Group

Once your language-specific sites are created:

1. Click Add New Language Group.
2. Enter a Group Name to describe this set of sites.
3. Add the sites you created using the dropdown.
4. Choose one site to be the Primary Site — this will act as the source for cloning, synchronization, and translation control.
5. Click Save Changes.

Each site can only belong to one language group, and you can manage multiple groups independently.

What’s Next?

Once your group is saved, you can:

• Enable Automatic Cloning and Synchronization
• Configure Automatic Translations
• Set up the Language Selector
• Start linking and translating content between sites

This structure lays the foundation for everything RosettaPress can do – with flexibility, performance, and clarity.