Having a two language website

Question

I want to have a English and Persian website, as you know English is right to left and Persian is left to right. When I post something and set my WordPress to English, all the site and all posts will move to left to right.

But this is my personal website and I want sometime post in English and sometimes post in Persian, and editor do not allow me to change direction, it just has text-align (css:direction:rtl or direction:ltr)

How can I change each post direction?

Is there any other way?

Answer 1

Convert your site to a multisite, then …

1. Create a second site. Set the site language to Persian in Options/General.
2. Set the language of the first site to English.
3. You can install a plugin to link translated posts like MultilingualPress (disclosure: I was the lead developer for that plugin for a long time).
4. You can customize the Persian site now to handle RTL content better, for example with a dedicated child theme of the main theme and special plugins.

The post editor will now work automatically without further customization.