2009
10.25

I wanted to post some Hebrew, and did not want  to change all my WrodPress installation to Hebrew.

At the beginning I thought it just might work with no changes, but all is got is a list of ‘?’.

After searching the Internet I found two easy steps:

1. The get the Hebrew and not the ‘?’ I had the change the file “wp-config.php”

Change

define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8′);

to

define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ”);

2. No you can add Hebrew, but you will have some problems like:

Instead of getting

1 2 3 נסיון !

You will get

1 2 3 נסיון !

The ‘!’ sign is in the wrong place. To fix that while editing your post/page, switch to HTML view, and add

style=”text-align: right;  direction:rtl;”

To the <p> tag. You might already have the

style=”text-align: right;”

If you clicked on the  “Align Right” button, so just add the missing part.

That’s it, you can start using Hebrew/Arabic or any other right-to-left language

  • http://deldig.com/ rif

    how to add Arabic Languages to wordpress to be arabic and english ?

  • chen

    The same steps that I have described will work both for Arabic and Hebrew.
    However if you wish to change WordPress to Arabic and not just to add Arabic text, you have to install an Arabic version.