BIlingual sites

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  transitionndg · Member · Jun 23, 2016 at 3:50 pm

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  I am on the free plan for now but need to build a bilingual site. I cannot find polylang plugin on my dashboard. Do I need to change my plan to have access?
  Thanks for your help!

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

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  timethief · Member · Jun 23, 2016 at 10:56 pm

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  This is not an upgrade issue.

  Automatic translation is not available to WordPress.com blogs. We bloggers do not have FTP access to blogs hosted by WordPress.COM and we bloggers cannot install any plugins, we cannot use Microsoft or Google translation widgets or any others, as they are JavaScript and it’s stripped out to preserve security on this multiuser blogging platform. http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/#javascript

  However, I have translation on my WordPress.com blogs. There are two workarounds and you will find them here > http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2011/02/14/translation-widget-for-wordpress-com-blogs/

  Note: You can create a page https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ then and copy and paste the code on my Translations page here http://onecoolsitewordpress.com/translation/ Be sure to replace every occurrence of my blog’s URL in the code with your own blog’s URL.

  If you are bilingual or multilingual and want to publish your free hosted WordPress.com in two or more languages but do not want to rely on machine translation that can be done see here >

  Set Up a Multilingual Site

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  transitionndg · Member · Jul 11, 2016 at 1:45 pm

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  Thank you for your kind reply, which I only saw today.

  The Montreal Word Press Community on Facebook helped me resolve this issue as well.

  I ended up using English on the Main Menu and French on the Secondary Menu, which pretty much took care of things without extra coding.

  Thanks again!