WordPress.com blogs are not able to add plug-ins such as Google Translate. However all is not lost.
Thanks to Time Thief on One Cool Site I have been able to offer two buttons/links on my sidebar which will enable non-English speakers to read this blog in the language of their choice. Time Thief is a great help on all things related to WordPress blogs especially the more generic wordpress.com ones. It’s been an interesting learning experience.
After a certain amount of fiddling and tweaking I’ve managed to have two (well really three) options:
- I now have an additional page on my site called “Translate this blog”. This takes people straight to the “conversion” page.
- I have a “TRANSLATE THIS BLOG” link on the top of my sidebar which also takes you to this conversion page.
- I have a second type of translation button, courtesy of Free Web Site Translation. This is a little more cumbersome as readers will have to scroll down to find the options of which language to choose.
Why did I choose to do this? My interest in emigrants from Dorfprozelten, Bavaria in Germany was my main motivation I admit, but hopefully it will also make the blog open to others whose English is limited.
Family history across the seas 
It is interesting to find and figure out how to use the different tools out there for wordpress bogs.
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Yes indeed Kristin..I usually see something or decide I want it, and then wonder how to do it. Have you come across this site? The writer is one of the benchmark advisers on wordpress.com help. http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/
I still haven’t managed to get a block of text fill-coloured (notwithstanding the instructions) but I’m sure I’ll eventually figure it out.
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I haven’t seen it before but I will take a look.
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