Having 2 Tumblr home pages

Question

So I have a Tumblr blog (http://chatsonho.tumblr.com) that is written on my mother language (portuguese). I'm translating all of my pages and I wanted to have a duplicate posts page in english, is it possible?

Answer 1

Tumblr doesn’t offer a way to translate your posts.

You can only provide interface strings (in custom themes) for supported languages.

Workarounds

(1) Translation in the same post

You could include all languages in the same post, for example like:

 <article>
   <div lang="en"><!-- English here --></div>
   <div lang="de"><!-- German here --></div>
 </article>

You could even try implement a per-post language switcher in JavaScript.

Problems:

• doesn’t work well with non-text posts
• title can only be in one language

(2) Several posts in the same blog

You could create additional posts for each translation.

You might want to tag them ("English", "Deutsch", …).

Problems:

• readers would have to skip over all the translations (if they don’t use tags to browse)

(3) Several blogs

You could create additional blogs for each translation.

E.g., example.tumblr.com for English, example-de.tumblr.com for German, ….

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Language switcher

You might want to add a language switcher.

You could use the link type alternate in combination with the hreflang attribute to link to the translations of each post:

<a href="…" hreflang="de" rel="alternate" lang="de">Deutsch</a>
<a href="…" hreflang="en" rel="alternate" lang="en">English</a>