Tick the box to the left of the Dutch language and click the Install button. You can easily find the desired language by using the Search by language name field.
Click the Install Language button.Ī list of available translations appears. This is the file containing the translated versions of all default texts that come with Joomla (such as Read more). This involves two steps: we’ll install the Dutch language pack and we’ll tell Joomla we want to use this as a “content language”. By clicking on Installed - Administrator you can see what language is installed for the administrative interface.įirst, let’s add the language files for the language we want to use as the second language on our site. The column Location: Site indicates this is the language that Joomla uses in the front end (texts such as Read more, Articles and Category). In this example, the currently installed language is English (United Kingdom). You can check this by navigating to Extensions | Language Manager. Step 1 - Checking which languages are currently availableĪfter you’ve installed Joomla, there’s one language available. After you’ve mastered the basic principles, it’s easier to apply them to an existing site that already contains content in one language. This way, we can keep things simple and get a good idea of the full process. Therefore, we’ll start with a freshly installed Joomla 3 site, an empty website without sample data. You can follow along with the steps below using any language you want.Īlthough creating a bilingual site isn’t complicated, it does involve following a number of essential steps. In this example we’ll use Dutch as the second site language - but that’s just for demonstration purposes. For users speaking another language, there should be a language switch available giving them access to the same content in a different language. In this example, the default site is in the English language. In this tutorial, you’ll find a complete walkthrough of the steps involved in creating a multilingual Joomla site. One of the advantages of Joomla 3 is that is makes it relatively easy to create a multilingual website, without you having to install extensions.
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