Am I the only one looking for the possibility to set up a multilingual blog? My regular website has two language versions and I wanted to do the same with my blog. But it seems this isn’t possible.
So although I’m German and my PR-agency is located in Bonn/Germany, I set up this blog in English language. Because I want to reach more people and make my texts accessible to all my clients.
But can I assume that everybody’s English is good enough to follow and comment on this blog?
In the beginning I thought I only needed to set up an additional page and put my German blog on there – within THIS main blog address. But the additional pages cannot be filled with another blog. This is possible on the main page only.
Which would force me to open another blog, this time in German only. Which would force me to handle two blogs and to jump from one to the other all the time.
And what about the url? This blog is called schwindtpr already. How should I call the other one then? Especially seen the fact that you cannot use a dot or a dash within the name.
Should I call it schwindtprde.wordpress.com? Apparently schwindtpr.wordpress.de isn’t possible. If you go to wordpress.de you’re automatically transferred to wordpress.com. ARGH!
Why is there no option for multilingual blogs on here and why?
Btw: Someone suggested I should use the Google translator and link to the result. 
But of course these automatical translations produce nonsense instead of correct texts, so… 
Hi Nette,
here is my first mustard to your sausage.
There seems to be a wordpress plugin for multilingual blogs. On http://webdesignblog.de/blogger/wordpress-multilingual-tutorial-fur-einen-mehrsprachigen-blog/ you can find a German tutorial that describes how to set up a multilingual blog with wordpress.
All the best,
Alex
Hi Alex and thanks for the link!
Good to see that there is a possibility at all. But if I get that right the solution presented there refers to blogs that are implemented on a regular domain only. I can’t do that on here, can I?
Hi,
well, I don’t know if there is a possibility to integrate these modules on wordpress.com. But probably, you are right.
I’ve tried multilingual blogging but I find that it confuses search engines. This can be an issue if you’re using the blog to promote the work that you do.
The best bet I’ve found in terms of SEO is to provide certain pages in your secondary language and optimise them for Google with link bait, etc.
Hosted options are a good way to try out blogging (like here) but remember that any google juice you earn goes to wordpress.com and not your own site.
You can change the source code to invite people to comment in German or English!
Hi
I have set up my multilingual website at http://www.irohaproject.org
but its not wordpress I have set up wordpress blogs with different languages did you try looking at the plugins? gengo is one I can think of now but there are quite a few.
good luck
ben
Hi Jon!
I think it would confuse ME to write two different blogs. Because I’d surely get different comments and then my flow of writing would develop differently in the two blogs. So I’ll better have one only.
I’m not blogging or creating websites for search engines anyway but for people. I’m blogging because I am interested to discuss ideas with people (not to make my website go up in the search engines). If this, as a side effect, pushes my position in the se, it’s okay with me.
I’m here for content, not for ranking positions.
Hi Ben!
Unfortunately I have not much experience with these plugins because I have only recently started to blog. I don’t know yet if I’ll implement the blog on my website or if I just leave it like it is.
Interesting site of yours but I couldn’t find any “About” section. What is this site about and who is behind it?
Hey Nette,
isn’t it possible to link another language blog just as a key under “(Subject): Deutsch” “recent posts” in the main contents?
But I wonder how you will do with the comments….. it will take ages to translate them all and copy them into the blog….
Or did you think of just leaving the comments as they come in…?!
The blog is good stuff, I like it!
Cheers,
Caro
Yes, it would be possible to open another blog in German and then link one on the other. As I wrote above I have decided not to do that but to keep only one blog in English for the moment.
If ever I open a German one too, I would not make the same entries or translate the comments from one to the other. They’d surely develop separately.
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