{"id":3344,"date":"2015-08-22T14:43:31","date_gmt":"2015-08-22T14:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?p=3344"},"modified":"2025-12-06T20:38:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T20:38:43","slug":"translating-glow-blogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/translating-glow-blogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Translating Glow Blogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I saw this tweet:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Hi <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/johnjohnston\">@johnjohnston<\/a>. Set up new WP class blog. Hoping to use translate function for an EAL ppl and family. See it mentioned but doesn&#8217;t appear?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Karl Barrs (@KarlBarrs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KarlBarrs\/status\/634471938925162496\">August 20, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The mention Karl was mentioning came from the Suffusion theme which has just been <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/2014\/10\/04\/suffusion-theme\/\">retired<\/a> from Glow Blogs. Or developers had warned us that they though there would be too much technical debt in supporting it in the long term.<\/p>\n<p>The Suffusion theme had given Glow Blogs many useful features, especially before the WordPress update at the start of this year. One of the features that folk found useful was a google translate widget. Ironically this was one of the things that started us seeing that the them would need a bit of TLC from the developers, they had to edit the theme to support serving blogs over https.<\/p>\n<p>Currently you cannot add a google translation widget to a Glow Blog, you can add a link to an automatically translated page for one language, and visitors can swap languages to that page.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?hl=&amp;sl=auto&amp;tl=nl&amp;u=http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog%2F&amp;sandbox=1\">translate this blog to Dutch<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You could link to a google translate page using a text widget on the side of your blog.<\/p>\n<p>Here is how to do it:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/translate-steps.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3349\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/translating-glow-blogs\/translate-steps\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/translate-steps.png\" data-orig-size=\"769,257\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"translate-steps\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/translate-steps-620x207.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/translate-steps.png\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3349\" src=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/translate-steps-620x207.png\" alt=\"translate-steps\" width=\"620\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/translate-steps-620x207.png 620w, https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/translate-steps-668x223.png 668w, https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/translate-steps.png 769w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Go to <a href=\"https:\/\/translate.google.com\">https:\/\/translate.google.com<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>In the text box paste in the URL (webaddress) of your blog<\/li>\n<li>You can set the language above the textbox<\/li>\n<li>Your URL will appear on the box on the right<\/li>\n<li>Choose a language from the popup and<\/li>\n<li>Click Translate: A translated version of your page will appear below<\/li>\n<li>Copy the URL of the translated page, in the case of my blog:<br \/>\n<em>https:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?hl=en&amp;sl=en&amp;tl=ar&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fjohnjohnston.info%2Fblog<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Go back to your blog and add a text widget to the sidebar.<\/li>\n<li>In the text type this:<br \/>\n<code><code>&lt;a href=\"THE-COPIED-LINK-TO-TRANSLATION\"&gt;THE LANGUAGE&lt;\/a&gt;\u00a0<\/code><\/code><\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_3351\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3351\" style=\"width: 497px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3351\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/translating-glow-blogs\/screen-shot-2015-08-21-at-20-49-13\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-21-at-20.49.13.png\" data-orig-size=\"497,575\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Screen Shot 2015-08-21 at 20.49.13\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;translation link in text widget&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;translation link in text widget&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-21-at-20.49.13.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-21-at-20.49.13.png\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3351\" src=\"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-21-at-20.49.13.png\" alt=\"translation link in text widget\" width=\"497\" height=\"575\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3351\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">translation link in text widget<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>\n<li>Save the Widget.<\/li>\n<li>you now have a link on your sidebar to translate your page.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I am obviously aware that it would be a lot simpler to have a translation widget that could be added to your blog and hopefully at some point we can have this. If you try this and have any difficulty please get in touch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I saw this tweet: Hi @johnjohnston. Set up new WP class blog. Hoping to use translate function for an EAL ppl and family. 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