Hi,

I've read quite a few postings about adding multiple language support to my DNN site but I wanted to break it down to a simpler form if possible.

On one post I found this:

1. Install DotNetNuke
2. Setup your content for your default language
3. From the Host/Host Settings page enable content localization
4. From the Admin/Languages page add the two additional languages
5. Enable Content Localization on the portal (from that admin/languages page)
6. Edit the content for each of the languages, to provide the translated version.
7. Mark each page/module for the languages as translated (from the page settings)
8. Go to the admin/languages page and mark the additional languages as Published

Let's say I have an existing site with 40 pages of content and I want to add support for Spanish for all current pages (basically clone the site for the second language). I follow the above listed steps 3, 4, and 5. But, at step 6, what do I do to get Spanish versions of the existing pages so that when the Spanish flag is clicked, the Spanish pages "replace" the English versions? And how about the Home page? Does it need some sort of special treatment?

Also, how would I handle home page module(s) that have been assigned "to appear on all pages"? I would need the same sort of module behavior on a Spanish version of the module / pages.

Thanks for any information provided.

Jim

Jim,
DNN 5.5 + Content Localization feature (AKA "Localized pages") creates copies of EVERY existing page when executing step 5 (unless the process times out, which might happen on larger sites). After you switched the language (visible by appended beautiful language key to the page names) you may translate page names, module titles and content. Some modules might not need to be translated or support multiple languages by itself, but DNN will ignore this.
Display on all pages should be avoided when using localized pages, otherwise you will get 3 copies of each module on each page.

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Sebastian Leupold

   

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If you need same content structure in all languages, using one of the existing ML solutions (EALO, Apollo or DSLocalizator) will be easier to use and provide better results, as long as you are using multilingual modules.

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Cheers from Germany,
Sebastian Leupold

   

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