How to Add Google Translate in WordPress

There are thousands of possible languages out in the world that your readers could be reading in. Sometimes there is a need to translate your site for your audience in a specific region. In this video, we will show you how to add Google Translate in WordPress.

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Summary of this Tutorial:

Start by installing and activating the Google Language Translator plugin.

To edit the settings go to Settings, Google Language Translator.

You can choose the layout for the translate form.

Most importantly you need to check the box next to Plugin Status and press Update Option button to activate the plugin.

With your settings changed, go to Appearance, Widgets then drag and drop a text widget with this shortcode inside: [google-translator]

Save your widget and your users will be able to translate your website to their language of choice.

Users can also update the translation of your site to improve the machine translation.

If your readerbase is great you can get your whole website translated by volunteers.

Related Links:

Google Language Translator

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-language-translator/

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Closed Caption:

hey there and thanks for watching
wpbeginner today i'll show you how to
add google translate in WordPress if you
have visitors from other countries
landing on your site you can add google
translate to make it easier for them to
read your content first thing you want
to do is install and activate the google
language translator plugin
next we'll go to settings google
language translator to configure we want
to make sure that the plug-in status is
check to activate it and will select the
original language for the site for me it
will be English choose which languages
to translate into and if you want to
show the country flags you can do so
here we'll keep the rest as the default
and click Save next we can go into
appearance widget to add the google
language translator widget to my sidebar
now in the front we can see what the
site looks like and i can pick another
language to see the content and how it
changes here
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