What is the best way to make a multilanguage site?

you can use flag emojis on menues and submenues, like that:

[anonymous] wrote:

There’s no easy way to do this yet, unfortunately…. Some people have resorted to creating separate sites for each language.

If you want simple, automatic google translations, see this amazing thread: https://forum.getpublii.com/topic/plugin-simple-website-translator/

Thanks for the answer, I am implementing a somewhat laborious but simple way and it seems very effective. I will publish in a few days a post explaining the process

To elaborate on my solution, which is simple but admittedly takes some tagging effort:

I tag every article with a language identifier, like English article, Spanish Article and so on.

Then, I can simply create emoji flagged language submenues linking to tag (i. e language) pages, i.e English, Spanish, German etc.

I can then choose from two variants:

1. the main menu entry being a general language placeholder – like the word “lingua” or “language – with the language options in the submenues.

2. the main menu entry being an indicator (and link) to the main language, e.g. English – again with he language options in the submenues.

It’s kind of hacky and again – takes some tagging effort – but then again, it’s a solution that works right away without the devs even considering official multi-language support for posts – which would presumably require  some kind of tagging action anyway.

[anonymous] wrote:

seb_oi wrote:

[anonymous] wrote:

There’s no easy way to do this yet, unfortunately…. Some people have resorted to creating separate sites for each language.

If you want simple, automatic google translations, see this amazing thread: https://forum.getpublii.com/topic/plugin-simple-website-translator/

Thanks for the answer, I am implementing a somewhat laborious but simple way and it seems very effective. I will publish in a few days a post explaining the process

I would love to read that post / tutorial! Please share once you’re ready. 🙂

Sorry I didn’t see your comment. I’ve been busy with various projects and haven’t had time to make a good tutorial. I had left it aside because I read that one of the updates planned for this year was the multilanguage functionality. Do you think it would be useful?

I’m not an expert on the subject and wanted to test it myself before posting anything that might lead to an error. It seems that no duplicate pages are detected and everything has been indexed perfectly

seb_oi wrote:

Sorry I didn’t see your comment. I’ve been busy with various projects and haven’t had time to make a good tutorial. I had left it aside because I read that one of the updates planned for this year was the multilanguage functionality. Do you think it would be useful?

Hey seb_oi: I remembered that you left an explanation somewhere about how you implemented your multi-lingual site: https://gfrprebartechnology.com

But I can’t find the post anywhere on this forum (which is a nightmare for long-term information saving / knowledge-base building). Do you happen to have the instructions written anywhere?

The process outlined here seemed to have been deleted: https://forum.getpublii.com/topic/showcase-of-publii-sites/#post-8112

@candidexmedia I have almost finished the tutorial, but in case you want to take a look at it. I’m going to translate it and upload it to the forum when I have it complete, let’s see if I make time this week. It is the tutorial to do it without segmentation of URLs by language, that is without the example.com/en / For ease of implementation.

To do it with this structure it is necessary to do several more things, which takes me more time to explain and is not an optimal way to do it because of the time involved. I leave the link here so you can take a look at it mienrtas I finish it. Cheers

https://artxeweb.com/sitio-web-multilenguaje-en-publii/