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Wordpress Language Plugin?

by Dr Dan
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I have a client that wants her wordpress site to have the ability to change languages for the user viewing the blog. She needs it to read from English to Chinese. Does anyone know of a good wordpress plugin that will do this?

Thanks guys.
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  • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
    Unless she makes posts in both languages... it doesn't make sense to have anything bilingual.

    There are some "plugins" that claim to 'translate' the posts using Google's machine translation but those are very bad translations.

    I may offer more help if you (or the client) can describe exactly what you want.
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    • Profile picture of the author Dr Dan
      Originally Posted by Istvan Horvath View Post

      Unless she makes posts in both languages... it doesn't make sense to have anything bilingual.

      There are some "plugins" that claim to 'translate' the posts using Google's machine translation but those are very bad translations.

      I may offer more help if you (or the client) can describe exactly what you want.
      Thanks Istvan. She will be posting on a new wordpress blog that I am building in English. But she has Chinese clients as well. So I was looking for a way that she could just post in English every few days and if one of her Chinese clients come to the blog, they could press a button or something that will translate the post or web content from English to Chinese for her Chinese clients.

      I know nothing will be perfect to do this, but looking for the easiest option.

      Any ideas?
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  • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
    Did you ever search the WP plugin place? (I don't think so)
    WordPress › Global Translator « WordPress Plugins
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    • Profile picture of the author Dr Dan
      Originally Posted by Istvan Horvath View Post

      Did you ever search the WP plugin place? (I don't think so)
      WordPress › Global Translator « WordPress Plugins
      Thanks and I did, I found a few solutions but I was looking for a recommendation to help reduce the testing phase :-)

      I figured if someone has used one before and liked it, then I would have a winner and save time. Kinda how there are way too many social media share plugins, but only 2-3 are really good and I only use "sexy bookmarks" myself.
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      • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
        Originally Posted by rockstarinlife View Post

        Kinda how there are way too many social media share plugins, but only 2-3 are really good and I only use "sexy bookmarks" myself.
        ...And that's exactly why I cannot recommend any "translation" thing ever without feeling bad about it: there is no good one; only bad and worse.

        I know, as a linguist by profession my standard are very high
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  • Profile picture of the author Abledragon
    I've used GTranslate - it works quite well and offers both traditional and simplified Chinese.

    That said, I've not asked any Chinese people about the quality of the translation

    Note - be careful not to confuse GTranslate with QTranslate - the latter doesn't work very well with WP3.X

    Cheers,

    Martin.
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    • Profile picture of the author Dr Dan
      Originally Posted by Abledragon View Post

      I've used GTranslate - it works quite well and offers both traditional and simplified Chinese.

      That said, I've not asked any Chinese people about the quality of the translation

      Note - be careful not to confuse GTranslate with QTranslate - the latter doesn't work very well with WP3.X

      Cheers,

      Martin.
      awesome thanks! and thats what I love about the warrior forum. Saves me unnecessary wasted time.
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  • Profile picture of the author jenilson2612
    Hi ! Till i know that you can't have any plug-in that you can add it and visitor can see your webiste in multiple language. But as some has answered it and i will implement in my website. If it's really working, than it will more useful tool for us.
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