Title: Anyone using Multilingual-plugin?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Anyone using Multilingual-plugin?

 *  [roterhund](https://wordpress.org/support/users/roterhund/)
 * (@roterhund)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/anyone-using-multilingual-plugin/)
 * Hi, I’ve downloaded and installed the [multilingual plugin](http://doocy.net/multilingual/)
   recently, and I can write multiple language versions of posts in the admin panel,
   but I don’t see any effect on the actual blog yet. Now I know the plugin is alpha
   and not fully functional yet, but I thought maybe someone more PHP-savvy than
   myself might have experimented successfully with it.
 * I’ve also tried [polyglot](http://fredfred.net/skriker/index.php?p=198) with 
   some success, but it looks like what Morgan and Chris are trying to achieve will
   be much more complete and comfortable to use. Unfortunately, there haven’t been
   any updates on Morgan’s page lately. I really hope they’re still working on it.
 * Any insights or other ideas for multilingual (i.e.: the whole page in two or 
   more languages, posts and navigation) blogging highly appreciated!

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 *  [jwurster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jwurster/)
 * (@jwurster)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/anyone-using-multilingual-plugin/#post-235121)
 * I use this [http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wordpress-plugin-automatic-machine-translation-for-your-blog-in-eight-languages-spanish-french-german-portuguese-italian-japanese-korean-and-chinese/](http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wordpress-plugin-automatic-machine-translation-for-your-blog-in-eight-languages-spanish-french-german-portuguese-italian-japanese-korean-and-chinese/)
 * I haven’t tried “multilingual” yet. The translator plugin I use just translates
   your blog using Google’s resources.
 *  Thread Starter [roterhund](https://wordpress.org/support/users/roterhund/)
 * (@roterhund)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/anyone-using-multilingual-plugin/#post-235124)
 * Hehe, yes, I’ve seen that before. It’s a good laugh, but I prefer to personally
   write the translated versions as well. Thanks anyway!
 *  [jwurster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jwurster/)
 * (@jwurster)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/anyone-using-multilingual-plugin/#post-235129)
 * Since I don’t write in any other language, I thought this could be beneficial
   to someone who doesn’t read English but would like to read my blog in their native
   language. I know the plugin has its shortcomings, but it would seem to me to 
   be better than nothing. Maybe polyglot would be better until multilingual is 
   done.
 *  Thread Starter [roterhund](https://wordpress.org/support/users/roterhund/)
 * (@roterhund)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/anyone-using-multilingual-plugin/#post-235136)
 * I don’t know if you know more than one language but anyone who does will probably
   chuckle at the results of machine translations. The problem is that machines 
   don’t know how to *interprete* phrases (well, they don’t even agree on how to
   interprete code 😉 .
 * By the way, taranaga might be surprised to hear that [there are good reasons not to use flags as representation of languages](http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/flags.html).
 * Guess I’ll give polyglot another try for the time being.
 *  [jwurster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jwurster/)
 * (@jwurster)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/anyone-using-multilingual-plugin/#post-235143)
 * I agree with you. I also checked out why flags are not good. Makes a lot of sense.
   Maybe I don’t want this at all on my blog. I’ll do more reading about polyglot.
 * Maybe I’ll spend more time getting my blog to be more usable by individuals who
   are disabled and people with special needs.
 *  Thread Starter [roterhund](https://wordpress.org/support/users/roterhund/)
 * (@roterhund)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/anyone-using-multilingual-plugin/#post-235188)
 * Polyglot is a good start, I guess, but the handling is a bit »rough«. There
   are a few things I would change if only I knew more PHP (I’m learning quickly
   though):
    – when you click a language-link on the blog, it changes the language
   and takes you to the home page. That’s really confusing. You should stay on the
   same page. (This one I almost managed to half fix, sort of … ) – if the client(
   browser) doesn’t support one of the languages supported (»known«) by the blog,
   no text is displayed instead of text in the default language. – you have to manually
   put the language-tags when posting.
 * { BTW: No offense, Fred, I know writing a plugin must be a lot of work, and on
   your website you say that polyglot is a bit demanding handling-wise. I’m just
   thinking aloud. }
 * Multilingual will be exactly what I dreamed of if the team accomplish what they
   set out to do. Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be much demand for multilingual
   blogging (I mean: jwurster, you were so kind as to respond to my post, but multilingual
   blogging isn’t a major concern for you either, is it?) and, as I said, there 
   hasn’t been much activity on the multilingual page lately, so I’m a bit worried.
   Maybe my greatest problem is my impatience, though 😉
 * One example of the flag-problem: I’m german, living in Barcelona, Spain. If I
   put a german flag to represent german, austrians, some swiss, and maybe even 
   people from Liechtenstein or Belgium might be offended (somebody will probably
   be offended right now because I forget to mention his german-speaking minority
   in some country … so here’s my pre-emptive apologies). If I put a spanish flag
   to represent spanish, the confusion is even bigger, because not only do people
   from other countries than Spain speak spanish, but in Spain there are also four
   major official languages. Right here in Barcelona people speak Catalan, for instance.
   Actually, people here in Catalonia don’t even referr to spanish as »spanish«(
   or español), but as »Castellano«. That was a huge aside, sorry 😉
 *  [jalenack](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jalenack/)
 * (@jalenack)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/anyone-using-multilingual-plugin/#post-235189)
 * Don’t mind if I bud in 🙂 … For problem #1 where it takes you back to the homepage,
   that should easily be fixed by changed the redirect to take you to $_SERVER[‘
   REQUEST_URI’] .. which is basically a link back to where you were.
 *  Thread Starter [roterhund](https://wordpress.org/support/users/roterhund/)
 * (@roterhund)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/anyone-using-multilingual-plugin/#post-235192)
 * Hi jalenack, please do bud in 😉
 * $_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’] is exactly what I was experimenting with. Strangely, 
   when I use that, I stay on the same page, but the language doesn’t change. That’s
   why I said it was only half fixed, sort of.

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