Google Translate plugin

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  alinademeter · Member · Jun 19, 2012 at 6:53 pm

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  Hi,

  Can I place the Google Translate plugin in my blog? to allow translation of my posts in other languages?
  As I have read om google translate I need to copy/paste a kind of code onto every page you want to translate, but I don’t know how to do this.

  Thanks in advance.

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  timethief · Member · Jun 19, 2012 at 6:56 pm

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  There is no FTP access to free hosted WordPress.com blogs and we cannot upload plugins. There are two wrokarounds and you will find them here > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2011/02/14/translation-widget-for-wordpress-com-blogs/

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  conradcook · Member · Jul 21, 2012 at 3:04 pm

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  You can do it without a widget! — Use html.

  Machine Translation Fail (and how to install a link to Google Translate on your WordPress.Com blog)

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  brekkepler · Member · Jul 25, 2012 at 7:21 pm

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  Using conradcook’s suggestion, I put up a translate link at: https://benjohnstoncomposer.wordpress.com/

  Seems to be working fine.

  I see that timethief’s method creates a separate translation page that allows one to choose the language to which to translate, which seems cool. But I also like the auto-detect function and the impression of keeping everything on the original page instead of bouncing to a new page via the menu, which is why I followed conradcook’s lead and put the translate link within the post. This means that I have to repeat the process for every new post, as I currently understand it, but that’s fine.