Translating Content
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Translating Content
with Amber Matz
In this tutorial,
we’ll walk through the process
of translating content.
By the end of this tutorial,
you will understand how to translate
the home page to Spanish.
To follow along, you should
understand the concept of
user interface, content, and
configuration translation
in a Drupal site.
On the demo site, the Home page
content item must exist,
the core Content Translation
module must be installed,
and your site must have
at least 2 languages.
Finally, the Basic page content type
must be configured
to be translatable.
See the written version of this tutorial
for links to the prerequisite tutorials.
In the Manage administrative menu,
navigate to Content.
Locate the Home page.
You can also search for it by entering
Home in the Title field filter.
Select Translate
from the Operations drop-down.
Click Add in the row Spanish.
Note that the user interface
has switched to Spanish.
To switch it back to English,
remove the first instance
of "es" in the browser’s URL.
Let’s fill in some of the fields
to translate this content to Spanish.
For Title,
for the Body,
and for the URL alias.
Now, click Save this translation.
View the site’s home page
and then click on Spanish
in the language switcher block,
or Español, rather.
You will now see
the translated home page.
You can follow these steps to
translate other content on your site.
In this tutorial, we translated the
home page to Spanish.
See the written version of this
tutorial for links to resources
that will expand
your understanding of this topic.