Rajah & Tann Asia: One WordPress Multisite Platform for 13 Regional Websites in 3 Languages
For Rajah & Tann Asia, Orfeostory designed and developed one WordPress Multisite platform for a regional legal network with around 1,000 fee earners across 10 Asian countries. It replaced 10 separate country websites, bringing a regional hub, 9 country sites and 3 regional desks into one centrally managed system, in English, Chinese and Japanese.
Rajah & Tann Asia project at a glance
- Client Rajah & Tann Asia
- Industry Legal services (regional law firm network)
- Location Singapore (regional headquarters), serving Southeast Asia
- Services Website design, WordPress multisite development
- Platform WordPress Multisite, Elementor
- Scope 13 sites ( regional hub + 9 country sites + 3 regional desks)
- Languages English, Chinese, Japanese
- Live site rajahtannasia.com
What changed for Rajah & Tann Asia
10 country sites, now one platform
All country websites run on a single WordPress Multisite installation.
13 regional sites, one design
A regional hub, 9 country sites and 3 regional desks share one look.
Content in 3 languages
English, Chinese and Japanese versions for regional audiences.
One CMS for every site
The team updates all 13 sites from one content management system.
What challenge did Rajah & Tann Asia face?
Rajah & Tann Asia's country offices each ran a separate website, so branding, navigation and content were inconsistent across the region. Every update had to be made site by site.
Visitors moving between countries had to switch between unconnected websites. For one of Asia's largest legal networks, the design also no longer reflected the firm's standing.
What did Orfeostory build for Rajah & Tann Asia?
Orfeostory built one WordPress multisite installation that runs every Rajah & Tann Asia regional website from a single system. It includes:
What results did Rajah & Tann Asia achieve?
Multi-country websites: Common questions
Questions businesses often ask before starting a project like this, answered from our experience building websites in Singapore since 2011.
Most regional businesses are better served by one platform with a site for each country. Separate websites tend to drift apart in branding and quality, and every change must be made several times. Rajah & Tann Asia replaced 10 separate country websites with one platform.
WordPress Multisite runs many websites from one WordPress installation. The sites share one design, plugins and updates, while each keeps its own content. Rajah & Tann Asia's 13 regional sites run on one WordPress Multisite installation.
WordPress Multisite suits organisations with several countries, offices or brands. It works best when they need consistent branding but local content for each site.
Use a shared design system: the same templates, components and styles for every site, controlled centrally. Local teams then change content, not layout. All 13 Rajah & Tann Asia sites share one design system.
There are two common ways: run each language as its own site within the same platform, or add translations inside each existing site. Rajah & Tann Asia's platform serves Chinese and Japanese versions alongside English.
Choose separate language sites when each audience needs different content, such as local news or services. Choose translations when every language shows the same content.
Hreflang tags tell search engines which page belongs to which language and region. Without them, visitors may land on the wrong language version.
Prepare a short brief, so the agency can give an accurate proposal quickly. It should cover:
- the countries and sites you need
- the languages for each site
- the existing content to move
- who will update each site
- systems the website must connect to
- your timeline and budget range
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