# How to Add Bilingual Support (English and Chinese) to jekyll-theme-chirpy?

**URL:** <https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/how-to-add-bilingual-support-english-and-chinese-to-jekyll-theme-chirpy/9648>\
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**Created:** [January 12, 2025, 2:43pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/how-to-add-bilingual-support-english-and-chinese-to-jekyll-theme-chirpy/9648 "2025-01-12T14:43:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![xuuu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ecb155/32.png) [@xuuu](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/xuuu)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 2:43pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/how-to-add-bilingual-support-english-and-chinese-to-jekyll-theme-chirpy/9648/1 "2025-01-12T14:43:09Z")

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[The jekyll-theme-chirpy project address on GitHub](https://github.com/cotes2020/jekyll-theme-chirpy)[I want my blog content to be able to switch languages](https://mincong.io/en/jekyll-i18n/)

**Hello Jekyll Community,**

First, I would like to thank the incredible developer [cotes2020] for creating the outstanding **jekyll-theme-chirpy**. It is by far one of the most well-designed and visually stunning themes I have ever used. Its code is clean, efficient, and highly modular, making it a joy to work with.

I’m currently using this theme for my blog, and it’s working perfectly. However, I encountered a small challenge: I would like to set up a bilingual mode to support both English and Chinese readers. While researching, I noticed that some other themes, such as this one ([jekyll-i18n], have implemented internationalization (i18n) features to facilitate multilingual support.

I love **jekyll-theme-chirpy** and would prefer to continue using it. I was wondering if anyone in the Jekyll community has experience in:

1. Adding i18n or multilingual support to an existing Jekyll theme.

2. Adapting **jekyll-theme-chirpy** for bilingual use.

If there are any best practices, plugins, or coding techniques that could make this possible, I’d greatly appreciate your guidance.

Thanks in advance for your help, and I hope this discussion can also benefit others looking to achieve similar functionality.

Best regards,

Xu Young

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**Author:** ![george-gca](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/george-gca/32/5301_2.png) [@george-gca](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/george-gca)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 5:21pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/how-to-add-bilingual-support-english-and-chinese-to-jekyll-theme-chirpy/9648/2 "2025-01-16T17:21:01Z")

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I’d recommend taking a look at the [polyglot](https://github.com/untra/polyglot) plugin.