In Sitefinity CMS, you can localize pages and content items by creating as many language versions as required. You can create different language versions independently for the frontend of your website as well as for the backend.
To open the Languages settings page:
Each site must have at least one language - this is the language that your website opens in by default. To remove an additional language, click its respective (Delete) icon.
IMPORTANT: Adding or removing a language initiates soft restart and database model reset operations to reflect the new language in the database schema. For more information about Sitefinity CMS application restarts, see Application restart.
RECOMMENDATION: We recommend creating a backup of your database before adding languages to be able to revert the changes to the database schema.
When you have added more than one language, the Multilingual URLs section appears.
IMPORTANT: If you are using multisite management, the newly added language is automatically used in all existing sites, unless you explicitly configure any site to use only specific languages. For more information, see Multiple site management in multilingual mode » Adding languages to individual sites.
NOTE: You can use only one domain per language and site combination. For instance, it is not allowed to have both site1.domain.com and site1.domain.en correspond to the English language for Site 1.
After you have added a language, you can translate pages and manually translate content items in this language. For more information, see Translate pages and Manually translate content and media.
To reorder the languages in the table, drag their rows in the desired order. This sets the default language order in:
For example, you can order the languages in the translations selector on the News page, so that the most commonly used languages are displayed first.
If you have created your languages in directories, by default, pages in the default language do not have language prefixes in their URLs.
For example, if you have English as default language and French as secondary, the URLs look in the following way:
If you want the English page to have the name of its directory in the URL, perform the following:
PREREQUISITES: You can translate only the classic content editing experience. For more information, see New content editing experience. Because Sitefinity CMS backend contains both classic and new content editing experiences, only some backend pages can be translated using this method.
You can see the default language for the backend under Default language for the backend system. To add more backend languages, perform the following:
You must have one default language. This is the language that your website backend opens in. For each additional language, the system displays the Set as default link and Remove link. You cannot remove the default language.
After you have added a backend language, you must install an existing language pack or translate the interface labels and messages. For more information, see Backend languages and labels.
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