Some of my readers do not speak English. Since plugins are not allowed, what are

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  bakerfamilyministry · Member · Apr 7, 2013 at 9:50 pm

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  I have friends and family in Russia, Germany, Holland, Brazil, Africa, and the Philippines. Since plugins are not allowed, what are my options for making my content more available to everyone?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Apr 8, 2013 at 5:10 pm

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  You’re right about no FTP access and no plugins. That means we can’t use Microsoft or Google translation widgets or any others, as they are JavaScript and it’s stripped out to preserve security on this multiuser blogging platform. http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/#javascript

  However, I have translation on my WordPress.com blogs. There are two workarounds and you will find them here > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2011/02/14/translation-widget-for-wordpress-com-blogs/
  Note: You can copy and paste the code on my Translations page and then replace every occurrence of my blog’s URL in the code with your own blog’s URL.

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  bakerfamilyministry · Member · Apr 8, 2013 at 11:07 pm

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  Thank you so much for your help. It worked perfectly!

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  timethief · Member · Apr 8, 2013 at 11:09 pm

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  You’re welcome and best wishes with your blog. :)