Different Languages: how to link blogs
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We are trying to have a blog in a main language (say, Portuguese) but would like to have a link to a post with the translation to English so that by clicking a link in the Portuguese version of the blog, it would take the reader to the English language in another post or blog.
Any clues?
Thank you,
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Marcelo ThiollierThe blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Don’t put your email in a forum; spammers will grab it.
You can do the translation yourself and have a separate blog for English and a link at the bottom of each Portugese post to the English one if you like. You’d have to put that in by hand, though, and do the translation yourself.
You could also just do what Timethief has done with her Translation page:
http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/translation/
The instructions for that are here:
http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2008/06/20/how-to-wordpresscom-translation-method/
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I saw your post. I am trying to do the same thing myself. I think the forum suggestion to put it as a link on the bottom may be good. However, when you translate the page go to “http://translate.google.com/?hl=en#” I put WHOLE pages in and Google translates them! Right now I have my other languages in the sidebar (on pages). However, I am not happy with this as I cannot add tags or categories. The purpose of the other languages is so that searchers of other languages can have access to blog posts. I am still betwixt on how to administer the other language pages (page vs. post). If I list them as a post how do I keep them from showing up in the list of blogs posts so I essentially do not have multiple posts (showing) on an identical post? Forum: If I can get instruction on this it would be helpful. Thanx
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If you make them as posts, you can’t prevent them from showing up in the regular stream of posts on the blog. But if you make them as Pages, you’re shooting yourself in the foot because Pages have little Googlejuice. Posts help you much more.
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Raincoaster, is there a way I can delete the email address?
Thanks for the tip. On the translation, however, none of the translator tools are accurate. At least for the Portuguese language. So, what we are looking for is to be able to have a link just as you see in webpages with those flags or name-of-language-links. But I need for this a place to store the translated blog so that when the link is hit it will take the reader to that page.
Your help is really appreciated.
thanks blogsattva
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i also have a similar issue – i want to have a bilingual blog in Urdu and English – the translation will be done by me. In some cases, some content may be in only one language.
i have right now set the language of the blog as english.
the problem with urdu also is that it is right-to-left which makes it very imperative that the language is clearly shifted while typing. also i want to use a particular font for urdu viz. Jameel noori nastaleeq. how do i do that? -
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vijipadma:
I saw your link but I was unable to determine how it is done. Note that in my view the auto translators are bad, specially in our case where we are a Buddhist blog and terminology is everything. So we — the mediators of the blog — are all prepared to work double time and make the translation ourselves. The problem like I said to Raincoaster is where to store the English translation and how to link the Portuguese (and main page of the blog) to is English translation. For instance, in the Portuguese page we could have a line stating “for english clik this link” and then the reader would be directed to the English page. Also there is the indexing problem, where an English speaking person could be doing a search and not find the English text but only the Portuguese one, for instance in case the search word is a common Tibetan word used in both texts.
I thank you guys for all your help!!!
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