With WordPress Pro, can I add other languages to my blog?
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It’s not actually a problem, I want to get better explanations of what I’ll be able to do (and what I won’t) if I buy a Pro account. First, I want to translate my blog to 2 other languages. I’m collaborating at a blog (http://forummundialdabici.com) which has this feature, so I imagine it’s something of the Pro Account.
Second, I understand I could have a domain, so, my blog heartsbybikes could be a dot com instead of a dot wordpress, is that right? Really I don’t have any issues with it continuing to be a dot wordpress blog, but I was thinking in getting different ways to the blog for the different languages. So, for instance, in portuguese it could be named coracoesdebici.wordpress and start as the portuguese page. I don’t want to create three different blogs, though. Could I do it with a Pro Account?
Thank you very much for your attention.
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Hi there,
The Value Bundle, or “Going Pro”, comes with a number of upgrades, including:
– Domain registration and mapping (example.com)
– VideoPress
– Space Upgrade
– Custom DesignYou can learn more about each of these upgrades at the Store page in your dashboard, or at this guide:
You’re always welcome to blog in as many different languages as you want, regardless of whether you buy an upgrade. You could register separate blogs for each language, if you like.
Alternatively, you could assign categories to your posts to help organize posts by language.
For example, you might assign a category of “English” to a post that’s written in English.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/Don’t hesitate to contact us again if you need anymore help. :-)
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Thank you for your answer, chrisrudzki. If I could stretch the question a little longer, I thought about the possibility of conducting different languages as different categories. The problem that I couldn’t solve with it was that I would have a blog with the same post showing three times, each for each language, on the main page.
Anyway, I will study it a little longer and think about what do to. Thank you again!
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You’re welcome.
You might want to check out this thread — some users have managed to use Google Translate to allow readers to view their blogs in different languages:
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/translation-widget?replies=2#post-304621
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Wow! Amazing feature, but I wouldn’t do that. I do use Google Translate to help in the bulk part of the translation process, but if you don’t follow every sentence to correct it, you risk having a text that is either unintelligible or, perhaps worse, with different meaning. I wouldn’t let it as a tool that works alone. It’s translating from english to portuguese (my mother language) part of what I write about bicycle uses as phrases in which no bikes are mentioned, but horses! Awful.
:o]
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Hah! :-)
Yeah, your best bet would probably be to create a different blog for each language that you want to post in.
You can always use the custom menu feature to build a navigation menu that will contain custom links to your other blogs:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-custom-linksAnother possibility would be to assign a category that specifies the language to each of your posts, and add the categories to your menu. To prevent all of your posts from appearing on your front page, you could set a static front page:
Your posts would be accessible from the category links that you add to your menu.
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