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Lessons Learned from Building a Large Multilingual, Multi-region Website in Drupal 8 Stella Power Photo credit: mumsabroad.com A bit about me Drupal hobbyist Founder of Annertech Backend developer

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Lessons Learned from Building a Large Multilingual, Multi-region Website in Drupal 8

Stella Power

Photo credit: mumsabroad.com

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A bit about me…

  • Drupal hobbyist
  • Founder of Annertech
  • Backend developer
  • https://www.drupal.org/u/stella
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Background

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Summary

  • Configuring your languages and language negotiation
  • Translation vs localisation
  • Translating nodes and taxonomy terms
  • The joys and pains of translating paragraphs
  • Translating menus and user interface strings
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Getting setup

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Modules

Only need core modules

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Add your languages

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Add your languages

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Language Negotiation

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Translation vs Localisation

  • Translation
  • All content copy identical across languages - “like for like” translation
  • Commonly fallback to site default language if not translated
  • Localisation (aka regionalisation)
  • Content targeted to different markets / countries / regions
  • Content (and menus!) can diverge
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Adding Translations

Photo credit: evandashevsky.com

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User interface translation

  • aka system strings
  • hasn’t changed much since Drupal 7
  • http://localize.drupal.org
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Content translation

  • “entity translation” in D7
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Enabling translation for your entity

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Nodes

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Taxonomy terms

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Menus

Image credit: ba-bamail.com

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Custom menu links

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Translating menu items

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Translating menu items (continued)

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a r a g r a p h s

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Translation - translate the paragraph entity, not the field Localisation - translate the paragraph field, not the entity

Paragraph id 1 Node 1 Paragraph id 1

Irish Irish

Node 1 Paragraph id 2

Irish Irish Irish Irish Irish English English English English

Paragraph id 1

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Translating configuration

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Example configuration page

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Configuration translation form

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Configuration schema

  • config/schema/example.schema.yml
  • Translatable types:
  • “text”
  • “label”
  • Other yml files:
  • mymodule.links.task.yml
  • mymodule.config_translation.yml
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Translating Views

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Localisation

Image credit: mobio.com

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How we set up localisation

  • Multiple versions of each language (e.g. en-us, en-gb)
  • Region taxonomy (optional)
  • Allowed languages for the region
  • Countries in each region
  • IP Language Negotiation
  • Menus per region
  • Region switcher dropdown (custom module)
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Region taxonomy

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Gotchas

  • Performance & APCu limits for configuration cache
  • Paragraphs, translation vs localisation - decide first!
  • Google Translate
  • Caching & Redirects
  • SEO - xml sitemap, hreflang
  • Design
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Additional modules

  • Alternate hreflang - https://www.drupal.org/project/hreflang
  • Simple XML Sitemap - https://www.drupal.org/project/simple_sitemap
  • Language Switcher Dropdown - https://www.drupal.org/project/

lang_dropdown

  • IP Language Negotiation - https://www.drupal.org/project/

ip_language_negotiation

  • Translation Management Tool - https://www.drupal.org/project/tmgmt
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Patches

  • Drupal core
  • #2189267 - fix for content vs interface language negotiation
  • #2430335 - language negotiation, redirections and caching
  • Paragraphs
  • #2461695 - support for localisation
  • Entity Browser
  • #2721665 - support for translatable media entities
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Documentation

  • https://www.drupal.org/docs/8/multilingual
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JOIN US FOR CONTRIBUTION SPRINT

Friday, September 29, 2017

First time Sprinter Workshop Mentored Core Spint General sprint

9:00-12:00 Room: Lehgar 1 - Lehar 2 9:00-18:00 Room: Stolz 2 9:00-18:00 Room: Mall

#drupalsprints

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WHAT DID YOU THINK?

Locate this session at the DrupalCon Vienna website: http://vienna2017.drupal.org/schedule Take the survey! https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/drupalconvienna

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Questions?

Fragen? Ceisteanna?

问题？

¿Preguntas? Вопросов?