Hi, We are currently using Hugo’s multi-lingual features to support branded “variants” of the same core content that we manage for several customers. Our content structure makes heavy use of symbolic links, which has forced us to stay at Hugo 0.43 as symbolic link support was largely dropped after …

At the very least, make sure that you don’t have two different symlinks pointing to the same thing, as in my experience it causes a rather erratic behavior.

Symlink in themes was dropped at some point. In the project itself, the symlink support is (should be) better than before across the different folders. That said. What I would probably do is to mount your shared content into each site. Note that the file mounts in Hugo takes an optional lang attri…

Thank you for that clarification about symlinks in themes being the issue. The shared content mounting via modules is exactly what I was thinking and I hadn’t seen a lang attribute documented. That’s precisely what I was looking for! Thanks.

Hi again @bep , I took your advice and started to migrate some of the content over to modules, but I am running into a mental block on Hugo’s virtual filesystem and module mounts. My approach so far was to create a module that is the base or shared content and then attempt to mount on top of that t…

I appreciate the info, but I’m not sure the other thread is related at all. I want the fallback content, but ONLY if I don’t provide translated content, which is what I’m describing above. Maybe I’m misunderstanding the purported relationship between my issue and the linked issue?

If I understand correctly, you want to have different sites (languages) that show the content of the default site (language) unless there is a localized version of the content in that site, and you are trying to achieve this with module imports. In the linked thread, people are trying to show conten…

Understood. Everything works as expected when modules aren’t being used. The root of this latest question was trying to implement the solution @bep suggested (content reuse via modules)

Help with re-used content in multi-lingual site

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fekete-robert February 3, 2021, 10:09am 6

Hi this thread is about an IMHO related problem and has some different suggestions that might be applicable to your case.

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Help with re-used content in multi-lingual site

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