
Navigate to Extensions > Languages, and you can see the language you've just installed in Installed - Site tab. You will see a message saying the new language has been installed successfully.
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"German") in the Search field and click Install button. Adding a New Languageĭownload a new language directly from your Back-end Panel by going to Extension > Manage > Install Languages. Just one more step to go: adding a language switcher module so that your users can select their prefered language.Configuration Joomla Multilanguage site is included the following steps: 1. The menus for the multilingual content are now set up. – Navigate to Extensions > Modules, locate the Main Menu module and unpublish it. As this Main Menu doesn’t need to be displayed on the site, we’ll unpublish the associated menu module: Joomla! also requires the Main Menu module to remain assigned to Language: All. Even if our bilingual site will use the new English Menu and the new French Menu, Joomla! still needs this default Main Menu and its Home Item to be able to function. If you have installed Joomla! without sample data, this menu contains only a Home item. Step 6: Repeat the previous steps in order to create a Menu Module for the English, and of course, don’t forget to change the details: Step 2: Click on Add a module for this menu type in the column Linked Modules. However, when you create a new menu in Joomla, you’ll need to add a menu module in order to be able to display the menu on the frontend of your site. Finalizing the new menus by adding menu modulesīoth new menus are now created, and menu links have been assigned to them.

Note: Hover your mouse cursor over the EN icon to see the associated menu item. Now, you should have three Menu Items associated with French Menu Items. Repeat the previous steps to create associations for all three French menu items. Step 3: Click Save & Close this menu item. Select the appropriate English menu item: English Article 1. Step 2: Click on the tab Associations and open the English (UK) drop-down list. Step 1: Navigate to “Menus > French Menu and click the first menu item to edit it (in our example, French Article 1 menu item). Let’s associate the English menu items with their translations. Joomla! has no way of knowing which French article is the translated alternative of a particular English menu item. Connecting menu links to their translated counterparts Step 3: Navigate to Menus > French Menu and click the Home star next to the first French article. The star icon will be changed into an image of the British flag, indicating this is the default page for the English part of the site. Step 2: Click on the star in the Home column, next to the first article. Step 1: Navigate to Menus > Manage and click on English Menu to open it.

Let’s set one of the menu items to be the default homepage for this language. However, Joomla! needs to know what menu link in either of these menus should be the default link (the default homepage to be displayed for either the English site or the French site). Your English and French menus both contain all necessary menu links. Assigning language-specific homepages to the new menus To do this, repeat the actions above and change the details as needed. Now navigate to Menus > English Menu and create three menu links pointing to the three English articles. Repeat the actions described above until you’ve got your three menu items in the French Menu, each pointing to one of the three available French articles. Make sure the Menu Location is set to French Menu and the Language to Français.Menu Item Type: Select the type Single Article.Step 2: Navigate to Menus > French Menu > Add New Menu Item. You’ve now got two sets of content and two menus, ready to be filled with menu items. Step 4: Click Save & Close to create this menu. Description: ie Menu for English content.Step 3: Create menu for the English language: First create a menu for the French language articles: Step 1: Navigate to Menus > Manage > Add New Menu. You need a menu pointing to the English articles and a separate menu pointing to the French articles. Please create a menu for each of the languages.

In this tutorial, you’ll find a complete walkthrough of the steps involved in creating a multilingual Joomla! site.
