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Translation Support | With Hugo i18n possibilities, you can easily have a website in your language. This article explains how to translate and change language in Hugo's generated site. | 2019-01-12 |
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With Hugo i18n possibilities, you can easily have a website in your language. This Hugo theme is ready to be translated into other languages. You can create a special file that contains translated text to show the visitor instead of English.
Translating the Theme
- Create a folder named
/i18n/
in your Hugo site's root - Create a file
<LANG-CODE>.yaml
inside/i18n
folder. Language files<LANG-CODE>.yaml
should be named according to RFC 5646 with names such asen-US.yaml
,fr.yaml
,de.yaml
, etc. - Copy a reference template to your translation from
<THEME>/i18n/en.yaml
file - Translate all available
translation
strings into chosen language
For example, to create German translation, create a file /i18n/de.yaml
in the folder of your Hugo site, copy reference template from <THEME>/i18n/en.yaml
file and translate all available translation
strings.
Changing Site Language in Hugo
To use the translations, just set a correct value for defaultContentLanguage
in site config file:
{{< highlight toml >}} defaultContentLanguage = "en" # de / fr / other lang code... {{< /highlight >}}
In other words, this field determines which i18n file to use.
Contributing Translation
If you want to upload your translation in the theme master repository, feel free to create a pull request.