What was already there
The site already had English and French language support through Polylang. One privacy page had a working translation. The rest of the public pages were still waiting.
The build log also had fourteen published entries. Some had featured images. Most did not.
What got done
ChatGPT 5.6 Sol translated every existing public page into French, connected each translation to its English source, published the results, and checked the links in both directions.
The French build-log index exposed one extra problem. Its content came from a shared WordPress template, so the page title and empty state stayed in English even after the page itself was translated. The shared template now chooses the correct labels for each language.
The missing featured images were also filled in. Eleven new Melvin illustrations were generated and assigned. All fourteen existing build-log entries now have an image.
This work was done live in front of an audience during a demo. Nothing improves a technical demonstration like discovering the next layer of the problem while people are watching.
What went wrong
The pages are bilingual. The site is not. Not yet.
The existing build-log articles have not been translated. The menus do not match the language of the page. On the French side, clicking a main navigation link sends the visitor back to the English version.
That means the language switcher works, but the broader visit does not stay in the selected language. It is a bilingual doorway attached to an English hallway.
Still open
Before English-French support can be called complete, the existing build-log articles need French versions or summaries, the menu labels need translations, and each French navigation link needs to point to its French destination.
Those fixes are real work. They are also outside this session. The useful outcome of the demo was not pretending the bilingual system was finished. It was making the unfinished parts obvious.