Title: using google translate directly Last modified: August 21, 2016 --- # using google translate directly * [JPeroutek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jperoutek/) * (@jperoutek) * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-google-translate-directly/) * The company I am working for wants the website to be available in multiple languages, but do not want to use a translation plugin or separate pages. On strictly html sites, I have in the past used the google translate dropdown thing. In my mind, this should work, but I cannot for the life of me find where to put it in the wordpress files. one portion of the script needs to go in the `` tag, and the other portion must go in the body. I can get the body, but not the head portion. In which file should i put this so it will work? I know this is not supported on wordpress.com, but since this is a self-hosted site it should work, correct? Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) * [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/) * (@wpyogi) * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-google-translate-directly/#post-3934818) * The head section of the page is in the header.php file – however, it’s not generally advisable to modify theme files as your changes will be lost when the theme is updated – instead do so using a Child Theme – * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes](http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes) * Thread Starter [JPeroutek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jperoutek/) * (@jperoutek) * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-google-translate-directly/#post-3934832) * The theme the company uses is a “premium” paid theme, so I do not intend on modifying it. I really just want to edit the core wordpress code. * [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/) * (@wpyogi) * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-google-translate-directly/#post-3934834) * Modifying “core” is NEVER a good idea. And as I said, the tags are in the header.php file of the theme. But as it’s a commercial theme, they’d be the ones to ask about this. Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) The topic ‘using google translate directly’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [code](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/code/) * [file](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/file/) * [language](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/language/) * [Modify](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/modify/) * 3 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/) * Last activity: [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-google-translate-directly/#post-3934834) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics