howoto google translate                 rev 21 jun 2018

plugin.


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plan:

  automatic translation from google's translate on all pages.


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sources:

  * the plugin - Google Language Translator
      https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-language-translator
  		to disable translation add:   class="notranslate"

        100,000 installs, good reviews.
        uses shortcode in each post.
        translates whole page, or just the content?
             https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-language-translator/
             https://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/tips-tricks/how-to-add-a-google-translate-button-to-wordpress
             http://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-add-google-translate-in-wordpress/
             Google Translate not only allows your users to read a
             translated version of your website, but it also allows
             them to translate your website. Your readers can even
             help improve the machine translation of any page by
             suggesting improvements to Google translation. In
             fact, if you have a good reader base, then you can
             get your whole website translated by volunteers.
               -- wpbeginner (url above)

              - can't use with WPML - it grabs the whole page, 
                so messes things up re what wpml does (menu translations etc)
                  https://wpml.org/forums/topic/google-translate/


  * on mobile
    on android, defaults to language of country you are in,
    including the menu. So in thailand difficult to know
    what to select!
    possible solutions: 
      set cookie googtrans for language
         or "append it to the end of the query string" 
      https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28234983/google-translate-default-language

  * automatic translation with google:
       - grab the translations from Google translator
           and then post them as translated texts inside your pages.
       - use the API from Google Translate.
       - Google offers machine translation for websites, but
          doesn’t allow it to be used as your own content. If
          you wish to use the free Google machine translation for
          your site, the correct way is to display Google’s
          website translation widget. This will pass visitors
          via Google’s translation. Google encourages and
          fully supports this mode.
          https://wpml.org/faq/does-wpml-support-machine-translation/

   * google translate widget
       - have to log in to google developers to get it.
            https://www.google.com/search?q=google+translate+widget
            https://translate.google.com/manager/website/
            details how to use: https://support.jimdo.com/faq/how-to-add-google-translate-to-your-website/




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