I need to add a translation widget or plugin!

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  bellepeaubellevous · Member · Apr 10, 2015 at 12:13 am

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  Hello,

  I am trying my hardest to add a function to allow viewers to change the language on my site. I have tried plugin but failed. I am now trying to add code from Google Website Translator but again it is not working.

  Please can some expert in this field advise me?

  Thank you.

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  traumadissociation · Member · Apr 10, 2015 at 1:57 pm

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  I am looking for this to, only wordpress.org allows plug-ins. WordPress.com does not allow javascript so you can’t use the tools on http://translate.google.com to make a button that asks the person for their language.

  Can you create a text widget which links from English to each target language separately, and possibly use flag symbols for each, but that restricts you to only the languages you include and test.

  This is described in the comments of this post –
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/translate-your-blog-into-different-languages?replies=64#post-243059

  Having an automatic google translate widget would be ideal – but wordpress would need to create one.

  I’ve currently made a “Translate” Menu option at the top, in my menu, this goes to the link – http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http://myblogname.wordpress.com – but this isn’t ideal because it forces the person to leave the current post and find it again from the main website- I’m not sure how well it will work – the person would need to search for the translated blog title, and google translate sometimes picks the wrong words.

  The last way to do seems like it will work better but puts the link in totally the wrong place! You can create a Custom Sharing button for google translate which goes to http://translate.google.com/translate?u=%post_url%
  This gives a translated version of the post you are looking at, but realistically it is in totally the wrong place.

  Any suggestions of a better way to do this would be welcome. I can’t find a URL which goes straight to google translate using the current (previous) page URL.

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  traumadissociation · Member · Apr 10, 2015 at 1:58 pm

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  Menu example of “translate” is shown on – https://traumadissociation.wordpress.com