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<\/p>\nIf you had the chance to build a multilingual website on an older version of Umbraco, or even if you researched the possibility of doing so, you likely noticed that the tool has some challenges. For example, I remember that a recommended workflow for Umbraco 7 was to clone the entire English website for each language, then introduce the translations on each site independently. This approach led to other challenges during the maintenance phase.<\/p>\n
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Umbraco 8 introduces significant changes to the localization workflow. One of the best new features with this latest version is the Language Variants<\/strong>. This function allows you to have variants of the same content, yet all under the same project. Essentially, you can open a page and, if it has variants enabled, you will see the option to switch the language and view\/input the translated content.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n An added benefit to this feature is that it can be configured in a granular way \u2013 i.e. you can define which document type allows Language Variants or not<\/strong>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Additionally, you can define if a field from a given document type allows Language Variants or not<\/strong>. This feature is beneficial for instances in which a universal field value is needed across all languages. In this particular case, language variants should be disabled for that field.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Another great feature related to localization, is the ability to enable or disable languages. This allows you to determine which language is the default<\/strong> and establish fallbacks <\/strong>(substitution words if no data is present) for each language. You can also define if a language is mandatory<\/strong>, meaning that a content node cannot be published unless it has content for the given language.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Finally, let me touch on a wonderful feature for developers. I am happy to say that there were many improvements for developers with version 8. In terms of localization, one of the best additions is the Language files for packages<\/strong>. This allows you to build multilingual extensions by adding different XML files for each language, including the corresponding translations for each text.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Umbraco 8 added a lot of new features that create enhanced workflows for constructing multilingual websites. If you are currently using an older version of Umbraco or contemplating a multilingual website, you will greatly enjoy all of these new features that Umbraco 8 has to offer.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you had the chance to build a multilingual website on an older version of Umbraco, or even if you researched the possibility of doing so, you likely noticed that the tool has some challenges. For example, I remember that a recommended workflow for Umbraco 7 was to clone the entire English website for each […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":19787,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[33,31,32,25],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19737"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19737"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19918,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19737\/revisions\/19918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Umbraco-8-Language-Variants\"](\"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Umbraco-8-Language-Variants.png\")
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