As some of you might have noticed already, there are a few changes on my Blog. About one month ago I have purchased WPML, a Multilanguage Plugin which allows me to operate a multilingual Website. Yes, I have blogged in English and in German since I started my Blog, but until the Middle of June this year I have written my posts in English, added my photos down below and the german version of the article under the bottom. Soon after moving my Blog from WordPress.com to this self-hosted Website I planned to make it more professional and to operate it really bilingual.
You can now change the language of my Blog in the Navigation of my website or in using the english respectively the german National flag in the right sidebar or on the left side of my Blog’s footer.
So far I have conformed about 21 out of 42 of the articles I have written so far and I habe started with the ones which appear in my Slider. I then continued with my latest articles. You find all other posts which I haven’t changed yet, in the german version of my Blog, as before with the English text on top, my photos down below and the german version at the bottom.
Changing my entire previous content with WPML is a lot of work and it might take a while till I have changed all my previous posts, my categories, tags and everything else. Especially getting your previous comments under the respective article in the correct language seems to be a bit tricky. At the moment all comments left before the 15th June 2014 appear under the german version of the respective article. I will do my best to change that, so that the respective comment appears under the article in the right language. Stay tuned, I will inform you once I have changed everything.
WPML doesn’t do the translations for me. I still have to do that myself or I have to hire a translator and pay for the translation of every single text. I am not willed to do that, but intend to translate all posts myself as before. I apologize if there are mistakes, but I am not an English native speaker. I will do my best and try to make as little mistakes as possible.
WPML allows me to operate a multilingual Website
Changes are great! Well done! I do understand a lot of German so I will check out your blog posts in German as well. Let’s hope it can improve my reading skills :-).
Wow, so besides your first language you speak and understand English, Spanish, Chinese and German, I am deeply impressed! Besides my mother tongue German, I have learned English, Spanish, French and Italian, but to me it seems as if I forgot almost all my french and italian language skills. I think, I can understand more than I could speak. I would be able to get something to eat and a bed in both languages, but I doubt that I could participate in a proper conversation in French or Italian. English, in contrast, is very easy for me and I am currently refreshing my Spanish. Furthermore I would love to learn basic chinese in the near future.
Thank you so much for your comment.
Congrats on the changes!! They look great!
I thought myself of getting that plugin, but I don’t know if I would be bothered to do the double writing job .. we’ll see.. anyway it’s a GREAT idea!!
May I ask you which version did you purchase and if you are satisfied with it?
Thank you so much for the kind words, Pam. Honestly, I have purchased WPML in the Middle of June, but I didn’t set it up properly on my Blog till early July. So I can’t say that much about it yet, butI will probably write a review in a couple of months. Since I started my Blog I write my posts in English and German and the double writing is indeed a lot of work. Even though the Plugin doesn’t take this work out of my hands, I like it so far. I bought the “Multilingual Blog” which is enough for me for the beginning. I think, you can easily upgrade to “Multilingual CMS” if you need that, but I don’t know if it’s possible to downgrade at all. Let me know if you have further questions or need any help in case you decide to buy it.