WordPress.com Forums » Tag: multi-language blogs - Recent Posts http://en.forums.wordpress.com/tags/multi-language-blogs WordPress.com Forums » Tag: multi-language blogs - Recent Posts en Tue, 21 May 2013 14:45:24 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 timethief on "Language choice" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/language-choice#post-861652 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:28:30 +0000 timethief 861652@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @gof78
We can set only one interface language for our blog here > Settings > General
You can have 2 blogs in 2 different languages, of course, but we have don't support automatic translations between them.

You'd need to write a blog post in the two languages and then post to each blog (or post the two versions of the entry on the same blog, make each language category, create a custom menu and add the categories pages to it).
http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#creating-a-custom-menu
http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-category-pages-to-your-menu
http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-custom-links

]]> gof78 on "Language choice" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/language-choice#post-861647 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:21:02 +0000 gof78 861647@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Just got back to this. Thank you both for the suggestions. The menu solutions sounds easy - I check out how to do it - but I like raincoasters idea so I'll give that a shot.

]]> raincoaster on "Language choice" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/language-choice#post-861127 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 02:26:48 +0000 raincoaster 861127@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ JS is javascript. The long and short of it is, create a static entry page on either blog, it doesn't matter which, with links to English and French blogs. Each blog has to choose a language under Settings->General.

]]> jtanna01 on "Language choice" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/language-choice#post-861121 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 02:24:50 +0000 jtanna01 861121@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ You have a Menu Bar with two links: Home Posts

What I was saying is that you could add the third link to your French blog so it looks like:

"Home" "Posts" "French Blog"

JS is short for JavaScript but ignore it because we can't use it on WP blogs. Strictly not allowed.

I hope this clarifies what I was trying to say. Perhaps not a good idea but idea it is which can be imroved upon.

]]> gof78 on "Language choice" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/language-choice#post-861117 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 02:18:06 +0000 gof78 861117@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ You lost me at "...not allowed to have any JS". What is JS? If I understand your suggestion, I am not sure I can do what you propose; I do not have any Menu bar. Is that the thingy that is across the top of the page?

]]> jtanna01 on "Language choice" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/language-choice#post-861103 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 01:40:35 +0000 jtanna01 861103@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Because we are not allowed to have any JS, I would create a Menu item for French language which links to your french blog.

You could create a custom link for this so that it links directly to your blog. I have done similar thing for my forum under "Any Questions". Have a look a my blog:

http://mytaxsite.co.uk

Good luck.

]]> gof78 on "Language choice" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/language-choice#post-861100 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 01:34:14 +0000 gof78 861100@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I need to publish my blog in French as well as English. I would like to create the French blog as a seperate blog and then join them with an Special Home page which gives a choice of "English" or "French", the selection of which links you to the blog of choice. How can I do this - easily?

]]> timethief on "How to link between wordpress.com blogs" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-to-link-between-wordpresscom-blogs#post-852245 Wed, 28 Mar 2012 20:35:48 +0000 timethief 852245@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Sure. You can create a custom menu and add custom links to it.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-custom-links

]]> quebecterreaterre on "How to link between wordpress.com blogs" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-to-link-between-wordpresscom-blogs#post-852243 Wed, 28 Mar 2012 20:34:15 +0000 quebecterreaterre 852243@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I have two blogs under my account, one in English and one in French, I would like to have a link at the top of the page to the other that says "English" or "Francais". Can someone tell me how to do this?
Merci Beaucoup-Thank You!

]]> airodyssey on "Need to create French duplicate of English blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/need-to-create-french-duplicate-of-english-blog#post-682845 Sun, 28 Aug 2011 12:54:04 +0000 airodyssey 682845@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ When I type "theta healing quebec" on Google, it's your __.wordpress.com address that comes up, not your __.com one. It looks like your __.com address does not appear on Google (because it merely redirects to your __.wordpress.com).

If you switch to a self-hosted WordPress blog (WordPress.org), you will start your SEO ranking from zero with your __.com address. However, you can purchase a site redirect upgrade at that time in order for the __.wordpress.com addresses to redirect seamlessly to your blog at its new host.

(I'm not the most SEO-savvy volunteer here. Hopefully other people will come to this topic and comment).

Creating a duplicate of a blog at WordPress.com is possible but not very convenient. You would have register a second blog, export the contents from the first blog and import them at the second blog, and even then, several things are not exported, such as the theme layout.

What I said about the design upgrade applies to any WordPress.com site and any WordPress.com user (with one or several sites): it only changes the design, not the functionality.

]]> hugginglife on "Need to create French duplicate of English blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/need-to-create-french-duplicate-of-english-blog#post-681569 Fri, 26 Aug 2011 18:54:59 +0000 hugginglife 681569@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thank you airodyssey for your reply,

Yes I have considered creating an entier site with wordpress.org but my concern is will doing this change-over compromise my SEO rating because iI am now listed 4 times in the top 10 on google. for theta healing quebec and my email newsletter points to these blog pages?

You did not tell me if I can make an exact duplicate of my entier blog and then simply replace the text while keeping all headers, font, css and widgerts intact.
OR
when I create the 2nd blog do I have to start from scratch?
I have seen this question asked on several forum posts never really answered.

"The Custom Design upgrade does not change that (because, as the name says, it only involves the design of the site, not the funcionality)."
Do you mean by 'The SITE, that it includes all blogs connected to this one even though it asks me to create a new name ie: newname.wordpress.com when creating a 2nd blog?

Thank you kindly. m.n.

]]> airodyssey on "Need to create French duplicate of English blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/need-to-create-french-duplicate-of-english-blog#post-680701 Thu, 25 Aug 2011 21:08:57 +0000 airodyssey 680701@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Bonjour MN. (I live in the same province by the way) WordPress.COM does not support multilingual blogs per se, so you would have to do what you are currently doing, which is to have a separate page, or even create a second blog entirely in the other language. The Custom Design upgrade does not change that (because, as the name says, it only involves the design of the site, not the funcionality).

If you want your blog to be seamlessly bilingual, you could choose to go for a self-hosted WordPress install (in other words, a WordPress.ORG) blog, where I think there are plugins that are designed to do just what you are asking. For more information, you can go to http://wordpress.org

I hope that answers your questions. Good luck.

]]> hugginglife on "Need to create French duplicate of English blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/need-to-create-french-duplicate-of-english-blog#post-680684 Thu, 25 Aug 2011 20:49:39 +0000 hugginglife 680684@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I work and live in a province whare everything is bilingual English/French. I have created a blog/website here on wordpress.com in englich. Bought the custom design package (fonts & css). I also created custom header images for each page and sub-page. Presently I have a French page with subpages but this will not suffice in the long term.

1. Now I need to recreate the entier blog as is in french so that it can look as professional as the english version. and NO I do not want to use google translate. My text is already tanslated. I simply want to create a sperate blog with sepertat url just using the same theme and fonts and images and menu structure. Is this possible. I do have a seperate domain names hosted elsewhere.

2. Can I use the design package I purchased for both or do I have to purchase the package again.

3. Is it possible to have a main page with a french / english link that directs link people to the french or english version?

Presently the two domains below redirect people to the appopriate pages.

http://www.thetahealingquebec.com
http://www.fr.thetahealingquebec.com

Thank you kindly. MN

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