Multilingual site

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  cheyennewehren · Member · May 14, 2018 at 8:04 pm

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  Hi,

  I’m building a wordpress.com website for a business and have it set up with a premium plan and the Entrepreneur template (if that is in any case relevant). My content is currently in English, but I would l really like to have a Dutch and German version as well, preferably by adding /nl and /de at the end of the domain link. However, I’m a bit confused as to what the best way to go about this would be.

  Could I upgrade to a Business plan and install a plugin for a multilingual website? I thought that was the way to go and read a lot about the Polylang plugin, but now am not sure if that can be used on wordpress.com.

  I’d very much appreciate your advice!

  Many thanks,
  Cheyenne

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  kosiew · Member · May 15, 2018 at 4:16 am

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  hi,

  @ravichachar and @justjennifer’s share a lot of relevant perspectives on setting up a multilingual site at:
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/menus-help-needed-multilingual-site/

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  tamiaservices · Member · May 15, 2018 at 3:18 pm

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  Hi @kosiew,

  Thanks for your response, but it’s unfortunately not covering what I’m looking for!

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  justjennifer · Member · May 15, 2018 at 3:36 pm

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  Hello there, Thanks for the reference, @kosiew

  
  @Cheyenne you can use plugins only on the Business plan upgrade here on WordPressdotcom. More about that here: https://en.support.wordpress.com/business-plan/

  As far as having a site with pages that end in /de and /nl you could use the category page option for this, which would make the URL end in /category/de and /category/nl.

  If you have a Premium plan upgrade, you could then use CSS to hide those languages from appearing on the front page of your site or on the blog page, if that is where you are going to be displaying your blog posts in English.

  Also, if you have a premium plan upgrade, you are also eligible for assistance directly by Staff when you post through the contact form at https://wordpress.com/help/contact/ You do need to be logged in with the username that purchased the upgrade.

  Let us know if you have any other question. Cheers.