Basic site set up

Follow the steps below to set up a basic multilingual site with the most common options selected.

Installing and Enabling the i18n Package

• Download and install the package
• Enable the following modules: locale, internationalization, and translation
• Set up your basic modules
• Define your languages

These are the basic modules you need to enable to have a multilingual site:

Figure 1: Modules in i18n package

Once the modules are enabled, visit the module settings page and go to Administer>Site Configuration>Multilingual system

Figure 2: Basic multilingual settings

When the internationalization module is enabled, there are two additional options in the language management page: a text field to name the native language name and a check box to mark the language as LTR (left to right). This latter option has no further effect unless it is handled properly by the theme.

Figure 3: Language set up

Enabling Multilingual Content

• Enable the language block
• Enable multilingual support for specific content types

Now you have to enable the content types you want to be in multiple languages. This can be done on Administer>Content>Content types for each content type. A new option to enable/disable multilingual support will appear at the bottom of the settings page.

Figure 4: Enable content types to be multilingual

New! There's a new option for content types called extended language support. It will allow you to set all defined languages - not only enabled ones - for selected content types. With this feature enabled, it is possible to have a site in a few languages, which will be the ones enabled, showing in the languages block and used for localization, while allowing a larger number of languages for some content types.