bilingual site/blog (not the automatic machine translation)

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  kikacap · Member · Mar 16, 2013 at 11:15 pm

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  how can I have a bilingual blog/site on wordpress.com? I need my site to be in english chinese and italian…I don’t need the translations, I can make them by myself. I need the possibility to choose the language…
  thank a lot!:)
  kika

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Mar 16, 2013 at 11:18 pm

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  You can set only one interface language in any blog here > Settings > General
  However, you can write a blog post in the three different languages and then post the three versions of the entry on the same blog, make each language category (English, Chinese, Italian) , 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

  Custom menus

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  kikacap · Member · Mar 16, 2013 at 11:26 pm

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  Yep, ok. Thank you for your kind and fast reply:)
  so there’s no chance to have the buttons for English, Chinese, Italian versions of the same site (actually I’m using the blog as website), right? My site is http://www.shopthechic.me
  thanks!:)
  kika

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  timethief · Member · Mar 16, 2013 at 11:28 pm

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  I don’t know what you mean by buttons. There are tabs in the custom menu bar. Using the blog as a post based blog or as a page based website is irrelevant. WordPress blogs can be structured either way.

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  kikacap · Member · Mar 16, 2013 at 11:39 pm

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  I mean the buttons you usually have on websites to swich from one language to another, so that the same website can be red by people speaking different languages just by choosing the language they prefer. Sorry I was not very clear:)
  thanks!
  kika

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  timethief · Member · Mar 16, 2013 at 11:44 pm

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  That’s what I thought you meant. You need to hire a web host and set up a wordpress.ORG install to have that.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 16, 2013 at 11:46 pm

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  However, what I describe above produces the same result.
  You can write a blog post in the three different languages and then post the three versions of the entry on the same blog, make each language category (English, Chinese, Italian) , create a custom menu and add the categories pages to it. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/bilingual-siteblog-not-the-automatic-machine-translation?replies=6#post-1184289

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  kikacap · Member · Mar 16, 2013 at 11:51 pm

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  that’s what I was afraid to hear… I guess wordpress.ORG is a bit too complicated for someone who doesn’t know a lot about websites like me…:'(

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  timethief · Member · Mar 16, 2013 at 11:57 pm

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  The only difference is that there are WordPress.ORG themes with plugins that do what you want to do automatically. I explained how to do that manually on a WordPress.com blog.

  It’s my very strongly held opinion that anyone who has not mastered WordPress.COM blogging should not even consider moving to self hosting a WordPress.ORG install.

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  kikacap · Member · Mar 17, 2013 at 12:02 am

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  I do totally agree:)
  thanks! have a nice day!
  kika

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  timethief · Member · Mar 17, 2013 at 12:04 am

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  You’re welcome and best wishes for a great weekend, kika. :)

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  raincoaster · Member · Mar 17, 2013 at 12:27 am

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  You can do it easily in English and Italian, since they use basically the same alphabet; just make two different blog posts. But you can’t also do it in Chinese, since that uses an entirely different alphabet.

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