TO ADD A TRANSLATE BUTTON TO MY WEBSITE

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  shekinaheldaoud · Member · May 17, 2015 at 1:24 pm

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  Please help me as I have been unable to add a WP Translate Button/Widget to my website. Many thanks, Pauline

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

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  timethief · Member · May 18, 2015 at 4:00 pm

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  Hi there,

  We bloggers do not have FTP access to blogs hosted by WordPress.COM and we cannot install any plugins. We cannot 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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  shekinaheldaoud · Member · May 26, 2015 at 11:06 am

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  Thank you for your reply, much appreciated. However, WordPress will not allow us to save the code for the Translation Button as provided in your link. Sorry! Any other advice?
  Pauline

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  musicdoc1 · Member · May 27, 2015 at 4:47 pm

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  @ paulinebattell,

  Try this code:
  <a id="ftwtranslation_button" style="border: 0;" href="http://free-website-translation.com/"><img src="http://free-website-translation.com/img/fwt_button_en.gif" alt="Website Translation Widget" /></a>

  I use that, but I prefer the 3 column, 53 language code suggested by timethief in a post on the forum topic multi languages of the same theme, and in her Translations Widget for WordPress.com Blogs post.

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  musicdoc1 · Member · May 27, 2015 at 5:21 pm

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  Why I prefer the latter of the two translating tools. Both use Google Translate. However, the first provides only a button that links to an external website (http://free-website-translation.com/) where you can type or paste in the URL you wish to translate. The second allows you to directly translate your site into 53 languages without leaving the site by simply clicking on the button corresponding to the chosen language.

  Google also has a website translator which translates into 90+ languages on pages to which it is added, but the javascript code that creates the translating “plugin” isn’t allowed on WordPress.com sites.

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  musicdoc1 · Member · May 27, 2015 at 5:29 pm

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  Correction:
  You actually do leave the site in the second method, the translation being done at Google Translate, but the procedure is simpler, and if your loading speed is fast enough you might get the illusion of not leaving the site. Instead of going to an intermediary site and typing or pasting an URL and choosing a language, you simply click a button in a widget (or on a post or page on your site) to begin the translation.

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  musicdoc1 · Member · May 27, 2015 at 5:37 pm

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  translate your site into 53 languages

  Make that 56 languages. I’ve got it set up on a page as fourteen rows of language buttons with four buttons per row.