Language Sites

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Language Sites

OnPointSM opened this issue 3 years ago · 4 comments

I am wondering if it is me being dense, or whether co-opting the theme for a foreign language site is not really practicable.
I have made a monolingual site, in French, so the other languages are now inactive.

My main index.html in docs is of this type:

<html lang="en-us">

    <head>
	<meta name="generator" content="Hugo 0.74.2" />
        <meta charset="utf-8">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="chrome=1">

.....etc

(docs/de) German and (docs/fr) Spanish are similar, just the language is adapted.

(docs/en) is like this

< !DOCTYPE html><html><head><title>http://example.com/</title><link rel="canonical" href="http://example.com/"/><meta name="robots" content="noindex"><meta charset="utf-8" /><meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=http://example.com/" /></head></html>

{{ $paginator := .Paginate (where .Site.RegularPages ".Params.post" "!=" false) }}

{{ if .IsHome }}
  {{ if eq $paginator.PageNumber 1 }}
    <title>{{ .Title }}</title>
    <meta name="description" content="{{ .Site.Params.description }}" />
  {{ else }}
    <title>{{ .Title }} | Page {{ $paginator.PageNumber }}</title>
    <meta name="description" content="This is page {{ $paginator.PageNumber }} of our content." />
  {{ end }}
{{ else }}
  {{ if .Params.seoTitle }}
    <title>{{ .Params.seoTitle }}</title>
  {{ else }}
    <title>{{ .Title }}</title>
  {{ end }}
  <meta name="description" content="{{ .Description }}" / >
{{ end}}

And the docs/fr is thus:

<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title>https://www.onpointsm.fr/</title><link rel="canonical" href="https://www.onpointsm.fr/"/><meta name="robots" content="noindex"><meta charset="utf-8" /><meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=https://www.onpointsm.fr/" /></head></html>

So I am wondering why my docs/fr/index.html is so sparse....

Do i need to modify or add something?

Answer 1 · 2022-02-15T07:40:14.000Z

I use the theme for a website that has German as the first language. It works well. My config looks like this:

DefaultContentLanguage = "de" # Default language for multilingual sites

3rd line of my config,toml

[languages]

[languages.de]
languageName = "Deutsch"
languageCode = "de"
contentDir = "content/de"
weight = 0
title = "Volker Beck, M.A."
[languages.de.params]
dateFormat = "2. January 2006"
description = "Online Profil und Lebenslauf von Volker Beck, M.A."
footerText = "© Volker Beck 2022 | Erstellt mit hugo und dem Theme [Introduction]
(https://github.com/victoriadrake/hugo-theme-introduction/)"
[languages.en]
languageName = "English"
languageCode = "en-us"
contentDir = "content/en"
weight = 1
title = "Volker Beck, MA"
[languages.en.params]
description = "Website Description" # Max 160 characters show in search results
# footerText = "© Volker Beck 2022 | Erstellt mit hugo und dem Theme Introduction." # Text to override default footer text (markdown allowed)