Creating multilingual pages (solved)

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#1

Hello forum,

I would like to create an English version of my gallery (in German).

Is there a guide somewhere on how to do this? I haven’t found any help with what I’ve found in the documentation.

Do I need to create a second version for all the pages in the gallery? My gallery is very extensive; that would be a huge effort.

Can anyone help me and tell me how to go about this?

Thanks in advance and best regards, Klaus

#2

Have you seen this?

#3

Yes, I read that. Thank you very much!

But I honestly can’t do anything with it.

Starting point:

I have an existing gallery. The text on each page is in German. There are a lot of pages and a lot of images.

I imagined that I could display English text there using text modules if I configured it accordingly.

Or insert code somewhere.

Am I wrong? In other words, isn’t this possible via the backlight interface?

Duplicating all the pages and adding English text seems far too complicated to me…

#4

You’ll have to write your text using html. Basically, surround your different language text with a div that assigns the language use:

<div data-lang="en">
  <h2>English Heading</h2>
  <p>This is an English-language paragraph.</p>
</div>

for English then one for German

This will take care of page copy. You can use the same concept for your menus.
Since image captions cannot contain html (to the best of my recollection), there’s no way to make the image captions multi-lingual

#5

Thank you for your explanation.

Do I understand correctly that I can use HTML directly on the backlit interface? So, even when creating the text? And the text appears depending on the language selected…

Okay, I wasn’t aware of that. I think I’ll give it a try. Although it’s actually described that way in the documentation.

Thank you for your patience and the explanation. I’ll give it a try!!

Thank you and best regards, Klaus

#6

I tried it out and now I understand the principle. I probably just didn’t read the documentation properly.

I didn’t realize I could use HTML directly in the page’s edit area.

Thanks again!!