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For developers: Localize pages and content

Sitefinity CMS enables you, as content creator, to localize your site in as many language versions as required. By using Sitefinity’s multilingual support you can localize pages, content items, taxonomies, and so forth. Thus, you can address your site’s international audience and target a greater number of users.

Creating and working with multilingual items programmatically is very similar to the standard monolingual operations: create, query, modify, and delete. The major difference in managing localized content is that you need to specify the desired culture and pass it as a parameter to the appropriate methods.

This articles examines several common scenarios for working with multilingual items in a non-default culture and demonstrates the use of Sitefinity’s API through code examples. 

Prerequisites

To view localized pages and content items from Sitefinity's backend, make sure you set the languages in which pages and items need to be localized in. For more information, see Administration: Language settings.
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  • For developers: Localize pages
    To localize pages, you set the required culture by passing it as a parameter to the Lstring properties of the page. You can also add translations to pages and choose localization strategy.
  • For developers: Localize content items
    To localize content items, you set the required culture by passing it as a parameter to the Lstring properties of the item.
  • For developers: Localize dynamic content items
    To localize dynamic content items, you set the required culture by passing it as a parameter to the Lstring properties of the item.
  • For developers: Localize products
    If you have a multiple language site, you can display products differently in different language versions. You can localize each product by specifying a culture-specific value for each of the localizable properties of the Product class.
  • For developers: Localize departments
    You can localize a department by specifying a culture-specific value for each of the localizable properties of the Department class.
  • For developers: Query localized items
    You can query items that have a localized field in multiple cultures. You can query all items from a specific culture, for example all items translated in French.

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