Opinion: Best method to make site translated? Topic is solved

[djcaptpln880]

Greetings

I am new to Joomla but so far its pretty good -- With J3 I was skeptical but now with J4 much better.

I need opinions:

1. What is the best way to offer fully indexed, search engine translations for an entire site without spending money on extensions etc?

Thanks in advance.

[pe7er]

1. What is the best way to offer fully indexed, search engine translations for an entire site without spending money on extensions etc?

Use the Joomla core.

• Create a category structure with articles (title, text, intro image) in one language.
• Copy the categories and set the language.
• Use Batch to batch copy the articles from a category to the other language category setting that language as language.
• Copy all menu items to another language menu, associate them with the other language articles and assigning the translated articles.
• Associate each article with the other language, and then translate title + text.

[djcaptpln880]

Thanks for reply

So I have to manually translate all information?

[pe7er]

So I have to manually translate all information?

If you want the best method (which you asked) then: yes.

Alternatively there are some automatic translation plugins available for Joomla:
https://extensions.joomla.org/category/ ... nslations/
However, the results of automatic translation vary a lot, so is not the best.