How do I setting Multilingual main-menu and website page?

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    yuanli15 · Member ·

    Hi everyone:
    I want my website have multiple language to Chinese and English.
    I find a support “Set Up a Multilingual Blog” (https://en.support.wordpress.com/set-up-a-multilingual-blog/#examples), and I want to use the option 1 or 2.

    But my website just have pages, not have posts,
    May I use that solution to my website?
    and how do I setting it, and it can help me to switch multiple language?

    THANK YOU.

    The blog I need help with is yuanli15.wordpress.com.

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    carladoria · Member ·

    Hi yuanli,
    I reviewed the support document for multilingual blogs and I believe you can solve this by creating Chinese and English pages. Then you can create two language specific menus to direct to the pages of each respective language. As suggested in the document, you could add a “custom menu widget” so that it’s visible only in that language. You can find more information about this widget here.
    For more information about custom menus, check out the following link:
    https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/
    I hope this helps.

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    yuanli15 · Member ·

    Hi carladoria, Thank You for you comment.
    I try according it to setting, but I still can’t to do it.

    When user visit Chinese pages, I want to display Chinese main-menu,
    and link to English pages, I want to display English main-menu.

    Now, I created Chinese and English main-menu,
    but I still don’t know how to setting.

    So how can I do??

    Thank You again.

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    carladoria · Member ·

    Hi yuanli,
    You could add a custom menu to your sidebar (or widget area in your theme template). So for instance, if you’re in your Chinese pages with your Chinese main menu, you set up your custom menu sidebar widget to show the menu in English. To set up the visibility of your custom menu sidebar widget, you follow these steps:
    Appearance-> Widgets. Look for the Custom Menu widget, you add it to your sidebar, and its settings you click “Visibility,” there you can specify that the widget shows your English menu whenever you’re in Chinese pages. You do the same inserting another custom menu widget that works the other way around: shows your Chinese menu whenever you’re in the English pages.
    To find more information about widgets visibility, check out this link:
    https://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/#widget-visibility.
    I hope this information helps,

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    yuanli15 · Member ·

    Hi carladoria,
    Thank you, and so sorry I reply later.

    I go to “Appearance-> Widgets”, and try to add and setting “custom menu”, but the theme (Motif) just can to add and set: main sidebar, first footer sidebar, 2nd footer sidebar, 3rd footer sidebar, first front page sidebar, and 2nd front page sidebar, but those solutions unable to meet my Boss.

    My Boss wish when user switch to English pages, the main menu will change to show the English at the “main-navigation” in the page (in my websites, the “main-navigation” is the blue main bar, and in the top of the page. https://yuanli15.wordpress.com/), not add other sidebar in the pages.

    It is like “La Maleva” website (http://lamaleva.com/), form Souppt -> Set Up a Multilingual Blog
    When user click the link of “FRANÇAIS” in the upper right corner of the page, the user will go to FRANÇAIS pages, and those main menu change to the FRANÇAIS language menu (If click the link of the ” ESPAÑOL”, the user will see the ESPAÑOL language menu).

    So how can I to setting, and meet my Boss?

    I am SO SORRY to take up your time, and THANK YOU SO MUCH again.

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    carladoria · Member ·

    Hi yuanli,

    I understand what you mean know but I believe there’s no way to do that unless you upgrade to a Premium account. But I might be wrong, so maybe another member can jump in and add other suggestions?

    If you don’t get any answers, you can always add the “modlook” tag in the sidebar of this thread to get staff or a moderator to look into your issue.

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    yuanli15 · Member ·

    Hi carladoria,

    You are so nice,
    and your recommendations are good, and let me learn more.

    Thank you for help me to solve my problems,
    and I listen your new recommendation, to add “mod look” tag in this question.

    THANK YOU AGAIN (^.^)

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