I am starting to localize our website to German with the help of a translator. The site is all in English at the moment. Given that we have a default language, I thought Hugo would fill in any missing translated pages with the content from the default language. But instead, it seems like I get …

There are two approaches that I can think of. 1. Use lang.Merge See https://gohugo.io/functions/lang.merge . This is for filling in gaps when you are iterating (ranging) through a collection of pages (e.g., on a list page). 2. Mount the en directory on top of the de directory structure content/ ├─…

thank you - this was a very helpful example! We had a problem on our site where the [module.mounts] sections needed to be reordered to put the EN content at the end, otherwise the english site didn’t get any content. I’m not able to reproduce that issue on your small test repo though. I thought …

I cannot reproduce that behavior with the test site posted above. When I visit http://localhost:1313/de/ this is what I see: [image] Notice the (de) in the site title. Also, the test site was not configured with a nl language, so perhaps you changed something.

Sorry for not providing the code - i generalized the two language case to 3. I’ve put it on github here: GitHub - mdonohue/hugo-testing at hugo-forum-topic-37225 I also updated to hugo 0.95 to make sure my older version wasn’t the culprit. The problem still persists for me hugo version hugo v0.9…

:white_check_mark: Two languages, using the first language to fill in the missing translations in the second language :white_check_mark: Thee languages, using the first language to fill in the missing translations in the second language :x: Thee languages, using the first language to fill in the m…

[image] jmooring: Sorry to do this, but… @bep . :slight_smile:

[image] jmooring: To make it fail, uncomment the last block in config.toml. What do you mean by “fail”?

[image] bep: What do you mean by “fail”? Point taken. It doesn’t fail. It just isn’t doing what I would like it to do, and my expectation/desire may be unrealistic. If I uncomment the last block in config.toml, and then visit http://localhost:1313/nl/, what I get is: Test 1 (en) Test 2 (en…

[image] jmooring: It just isn’t doing what I would like it to do, and my expectation/desire may be unrealistic. No, your expectations matches mine, so this is a bug. A little bit of a puzzling bug, but I suspect an easy fix. Can you create a GH issue?

https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/9693

@mdonohue Thanks to @bep ’s work over the weekend, using mounts to fill in missing translations now works with two or more languages. Notes: 1) The functionality will be available in the next release. Or, if you can build from source, it’s available now. 2) In site configuration, you can configur…

Do all page bundles need localized copies once you add a new language?

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Do all page bundles need localized copies once you add a new language?

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