How to set up a *partially* multi-lingual website

[Justin Kerr]

I'm looking at multi-language support for an existing Joomla website. I'd like to start selectively adding content in a couple new languages, however, this will only be valid for some parts of the website.

I'd like to correctly implement this so "switching" works on content that's set up to support translation, and all other content just defaults to the most prevalent language (English).

Is this accomplished using the "All" value for the Language field? So in other words, if a specific translation isn't supported for a piece of content, would the user would still see the "All" version?

Our use case is adding some new, Chinese-language content to an existing English-language website. I want our Chinese-language users to be able to switch into Chinese language mode to see their Chinese-written articles et al, but when our Chinese-language users click to other parts of the website that don't yet support Chinese, they still can see the English/"All" version.

Is this the right approach? I welcome any feedback and best practices here. Thanks much for any help and feedback!

[travispe]

Hi Justin, did you figure out a solution to this question? Curious what you came up with, we're in a similar situation.

[opkyrtsis]

Hi there. I suppose the only way to achieve this without having double content is to select "alias to the older menu items" that is "language2" menu items that need to remain as is. Any other suggestions?

[pe7er]

Welcome to Joomla forum!

I've set up my company website with 5 languages: Dutch, English, German, French and Spanish.
Every article, category and menu item is set to one of those languages.

However only the Dutch + English content is fully associated.
The other 3 languages (German, French and Spanish) only have a homepage + contact page and are associated with the homepage and contact page from the other languages.
When you are at some English or Dutch article and choose any of the other languages, you will be redirected to the homepage of that language.

[pishro]

The other 3 languages (German, French and Spanish) only have a homepage + contact page and are associated with the homepage and contact page from the other languages.

Hi, my dear friend
Is there anything that can be done for this main page?

[pe7er]

Is there anything that can be done for this main page?

Sorry, what do you mean?

[pishro]

Sorry, I meant homepage

[pe7er]

You can create a homepage for each language.
It does not matter whether your homepage is of menu item type "Single Article", "Category Blog", "Featured Articles" or something else.
Just assign each homepage to a language, set them as default page and assign them to the other language homepages.