I’ve been meaning to talk about the Language Switcher WordPress plugin for a while. It’s a plugin that could be very useful to those of you wanting to make a bilingual blog. My wife is using it at a bilingual (spanish-english) site she runs, and it works great. However, I do have to warn you that there’s some work involved in installing this plugin, but if you have decided to make a bilingual blog, then you have already decided to do the extra work. And as I said, once you set it up, it does the job nicely.

This plugin allows you to translate a post, and then have the option to select that translation from within the same post. This means that you don’t have to create two separate posts and you are in control of what your translations are going to look like, and this is what I was looking for.

“The Language Switcher WordPress plugin allows you to create a bilingual or multi-lingual blog, using WordPress. The way it works is that you write the content for your blog in multiple languages, using special tags to tell the plugin which text goes with which language…The Language Switcher plugin will then let your blog viewers choose a language for viewing your blog, and put all the text on the screen into the right language.”