I am thinking about converting an existing blog to being multilingual. Can I prepare my translations of old posts off-line before activating the plugin?
My recommendation would be that you go ahead and install/activate the Language Switcher, and then fill in the translations for past articles as you have time. Language Switcher works just fine with posts that have no language tags — it just allows them to be viewed like they were before you installed and activated the Language Switcher. The other alternative would be to translate the articles into text documents off-line, and then when you are ready to turn the switch, turn on Language Switcher and put in all the translations. But that would mean a delay, and an inability to write new posts with translations while you are working on the old posts. Another thing you could do is to prepare a section something like this, in all of your blog’s languages: [lang_en]I’m working on translating my past posts. For now, this post is only available in English.[/lang_en] [lang_es]Estoy traduciendo blah blah blah [/lang_es] [lang_it]…[/lang_it] If you copy/paste something like this at the top of
