Multilingual blog.

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  rakan73 · Member · Jun 14, 2014 at 1:35 pm

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  Can my blog have dual languages, so I can have posts in Arabic and in English? When I tried to do so now ( since one is from left to right and the other is from right to left) I can get them both to be properly published.

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  diegoe · Member · Jun 16, 2014 at 3:33 am

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  Hey!

  So, technically you can’t really have a “multilingual blog”, meaning that there is no feature or option for anything like that.

  That’s the bad news, the good news is that I think I have come up with a hack that will let you post English content in left to right direction.

  So, if you add this to your site’s CSS:

  .category-english {
  	direction: ltr;	
  }

  Every post you have published, or publish, under the “English” category, will be formatted left-to-right. We could add something similar for an “Arabic” category:

  .category-arabic {
  	direction: rtl;	
  }

  The trick here is that posts are marked with a “class” that reflects their Category, so for example, your current posts under “About Life” have the class “category-about-life” (under case, dashes instead of spaces).

  You can take the code above and use a different category if you prefer. So, if you want to make all your “About Life” posts be rtl, you would change the above code to:

  .category-about-life {
  	direction: ltr;	
  }

  And so on.

  To avoid confusions, and give you more flexibility, I would advice you to create two new categories: English and Arabic, and use them for the only purpose of determining the text direction.

  Does that make sense?

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  rakan73 · Member · Jun 16, 2014 at 12:54 pm

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  This worked perfectly, thanks a lot buddy. I really appreciate the help here :)

  Rakan

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  diegoe · Member · Jun 16, 2014 at 5:09 pm

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  Awesome. Let me know if we can help you with anything else :-))

  Have fun blogging!