Title: Plugin to support single, multilingual site
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Plugin to support single, multilingual site

 *  [ted.byers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tedbyers/)
 * (@tedbyers)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-to-support-single-multilingual-site/)
 * I did a search for multilingual wordpress, and got a lot of hits I am struggling
   to process. I am hoping someone can recommend a short list of plugins to consider.
   Please note, I an NOT looking for a translator plugin. What I am looking for 
   is a tiny suite of plugins that facilitate not only displaying multilingual content,
   but authoring it. Or, if a single plugin will support all I want to do, so much
   the better.
 * Here is what I want to do, and why. I have decided to learn a few extra languages(
   French, German, Arabic), and what to support that learning process by authoring
   content in English and then translating that content into French, German, or 
   Arabic (or whatever other language I decide to try to learn – I am old, so success
   in learning is not assured). I recognize that some might suggest I try harder
   to master English before trying to learn another language, as some might say 
   English itself gives me some trouble (even though it is my mother tongue). 😉
   But, I intend to try anyway. 😉
 * What would be ideal, from the authoring perspective, is to divide the client 
   screen into 4, one for the original English content, a second for editing the
   content in the language I am working on learning, a third for an English-French(
   German/Arabic) dictionary, and a fourth for a grammar for the language I am trying
   to learn. The edit window for the language I am trying to learn ought to support
   writing in that language from a conventional US keyboard (so it ought to have
   a virtual keyboard, for those scripts comprised of very different letters (such
   as Greek or Arabic), or pop-up selectors for languages such as French or German,
   where the difference in script from English resides more in an additional suite
   of marks that can be applied to vowels, with the editor being smart enough to
   know when such a pop-up selector would be warranted.
 * I’d like another plugin that would take a look at whatever metadata I enter in
   English (eg data used to try do SEO) and offer to let me enter whatever the corresponding
   metadata ought to be in whatever other language I am trying to use.
 * Finally, I would like to allow the user to toggle whether he sees the content
   in his own language only or along with the original English content (and then,
   either interlineal or side by side). The idea here is to let fully fluent bilingual/
   multilingual visitors (ideally scholars) to read both my original English content
   and my attempt to translate it into their mother tongue, and offer suggestions
   to improve my use or mastery of the language(s) I am trying to acquire.
 * I am open to suggestions as to how such feedback is best managed, so I can avoid
   both offensive and useless feedback clutter, and yet acknowledge useful feed 
   back. I also want to be absolutely certain a visitor can not send data that could
   harm my system (the classic example of which is a SQL injection attack, or a 
   buffer over-run – I don’t know what risks PHP opens up as I program my web applications
   in Perl, rather than PHP).
 * Please do not waste time arguing about plugin X is better than plugin Y, but 
   rather focus on what plugin, or set thereof, will support the capabilities I 
   am after; and of these, which have a good reputation.
 * Thanks
 * Ted

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