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Your Site, Now in Other Languages: Introducing the Google Translate Widget

In a single click, translate your site content into 100+ languages.

Artur Piszek
Artur Piszek
November 25, 2016

Engineering Happiness en Español

The Happiness Hiring team at Automattic continues their effort to build a Spanish-speaking support team.

Erica V.
Erica V.
July 13, 2016

Web Publishing for All! Introducing Community Translator Tools

We’re excited to announce new tools that help make WordPress even more accessible to people around the globe.

Julian de Bhál
Julian de Bhál
May 26, 2015

Celebrating Our WordPress.com Rockstar Translators

Today, let’s hear it for the volunteers who translate WordPress.com into dozens of languages. Bonus: if you want to get involved, learn about our new glossary feature!

Naoko Takano
Naoko Takano
March 11, 2014

Proofread More Languages

We’re often asked when we plan to make our intelligent proofreading technology available for more languages. We’ve been hard at work and today we’re announcing After the Deadline proofreading for French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish. These languages feature After the Deadline’s smart contextual spell checking. We’re also using a great open source project called Language […]

rsmudge
rsmudge
February 15, 2010

A New Translation Platform

The full translation of WordPress.com is an ongoing process, of which you are a great part and whom we thank for the patience and assistance. Thanks to you, WordPress.com is now available in 60+ languages (and, yes, before you ask, esperanto, too). As you know, any text that shows up on your dashboard, widgets or […]

Zé
November 19, 2009

The Image Widget, Plus News from Support

Last month, the Support team (also known as Happiness Engineers) got together to brainstorm new ways of providing you with the features and resources you need. Out of that meetup came a number of improvements and features, like the RSS Links Widget, introduced earlier this month. Another is the Image Widget, launching today. In the […]

Heather M.
Heather M.
September 29, 2009

WordPress.com in Brazil

Given the recent news that WordPress.com might be blocked in Brazil, we would like to share some information about the case and our response. A Brazilian judge ordered that one blog hosted at WordPress.com should be blocked in Brazil. A local ISP association mentioned it would do so via IP address blocking, something that would […]

Matt
Matt
April 30, 2008

Going Native

As Ryan wrote in his blog, we’re starting to enable more and more languages that are finishing the community translation process. Personally I’m very excited about this because it really represents the core of what WordPress is about: providing the tools to allow people to communicate and connect with folks they care about. As a […]

Matt
Matt
August 8, 2006

Translate WordPress

The last post on WordCamp really reminded me just how many of our bloggers are overseas. As we’ve explored more and more ways to allow you to express yourself in your language of choice, the thundering request has always been for a way to translate the dashboard and static parts of your theme. Well here […]

Matt
Matt
July 14, 2006