Bilingual travel blog

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    teacuptravelers · Member ·

    Hello! My cousin just started our travel blog. She is French and I am American and we would like to post an English & French version of each of our posts. I’ve looked up other threads on this and figured out how to make a submenu. Now under blog it says both English and French but my question is how to get the posts to go under each submenu instead of just under blog. Is there a way?

    The blog is http://teacuptravelers.wordpress.com/

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    lorelle · Member ·

    There are many ways to create a bilingual site.

    What you did was to create Pages titled by each language. You cannot put posts on Pages the way you wish it to work.

    Here are other options.

    If you are translating the same post, put one language at the top and the translation at the bottom of the same post. Many people learning languages love this as they can read in the language they are learning and glance at the other language to make sure they have it right.

    If you are producing separate content in the two languages, create a category for English and another for French and other categories reflective of the topics you are talking about along with tags in both languages to increase navigation opportunities. Use the Custom Menu feature to place the English and French categories where you wish them (I would not use a submenu as these are key navigation points right? Just add them directly to the menu), and users can click which category of posts to read. That is probably the best method.

    Thanks and good luck with your travels.

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    timethief · Member ·

    There is no FTP access and we bloggerscannot install plugins. That means we can’t 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://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2011/02/14/translation-widget-for-wordpress-com-blogs/
    Note: You can copy and paste the code on my Translations page and then replace every occurrence of my blog’s URL in the code with your own blog’s URL.

    You can only set a single interface language for the blog here > Settings > General
    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 > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/02/25/wordpress-com-multilingual-blogs/

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