What's the current status on rtl language support?

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  deenalev · Member · Sep 11, 2011 at 11:46 pm

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  As far as I can tell, there is only one theme in wp.com that is rtl-language supportive: “Spectrum.” Is this true? Also, once someone activates Spectrum for their rtl-language site, how do they activate the rtl-supportive feature?

  Thanks.

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  deenalev · Member · Sep 11, 2011 at 11:57 pm

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  I see now that there are more themes that are tagged “rtl-language-support.” But I’d still like to understand: How do you actually make your site into rtl once activating one of those themes?

  Thanks.

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  timethief · Member · Sep 12, 2011 at 12:03 am

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  I think it may have do to with which language you choose to blog in. Have you looked here in the blog and tried setting it to a language that reads from right to left to see what happens? > Settings > General
  Language
  Language this blog is primarily written in.
  You can also modify the interface language in your profile.

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  deenalev · Member · Sep 12, 2011 at 12:04 am

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  I finally got the answer from someone I know.

  You activate the theme you want that has the tag I mentioned above and then you go into settings and set the language of your site to the rtl language you want. After you save it, the whole site flips around.

  Just wanted to let you know that I spent a long time trying to figure out how to do this by searching the support and forum and couldn’t find the answer. Maybe this info isn’t readily enough available.

  Thanks.

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  deenalev · Member · Sep 12, 2011 at 12:09 am

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  timethief, thanks for your help. You’re right about changing the language in the general settings.

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  timethief · Member · Sep 12, 2011 at 12:14 am

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  @deenalev
  Hi again,
  I flagged this and put a note up for Staff to consider adding a bit of text on rtl language selection in this support doc > http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/general-settings/ Glad to know I was right and best wishes to you. :)

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  deenalev · Member · Sep 12, 2011 at 12:17 am

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  :) Glad to know you were right too. :) Thanks for flagging this!

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  timethief · Member · Sep 12, 2011 at 12:19 am

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  You’re welcome. :)

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  justjennifer · Member · Sep 12, 2011 at 10:32 am

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  According to the informative session I just attended at WordCampJerusalem, all the free themes have RTL support. :)

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  michiecat · Staff · Sep 12, 2011 at 8:54 pm

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  Hi there, thank you for bringing this to our attention. The support document has been updated accordingly.

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  timethief · Member · Sep 12, 2011 at 8:58 pm

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  @michiecat
  Thank you very much. :)