Hello everybody Is it possible to translate the path of a section? I’ve this situation: [image] de is my default language. Currently the German page is available via /imprint and the English one is /en/imprint. Is it possible to override the url of the German page to /impressum? Thank you! Robi…

I figured it out. I just don’t use _index.xy.md files but imprint.xy.md in the content root. Then I could override the url with the frontmatter parameter url. Maybe it should be somewhere documented, that some frontmatter params have no affect in frontmatter.

[image] openscript: Maybe it should be somewhere documented, that some frontmatter params have no affect in frontmatter. Could you explain that differently? We definitely want to make the docs clearer, but I am not picking up the part that wasn’t working for ya. _index.html pages are not use…

I understand that _index.html pages are not used for single pages. What I tried is to rename the section from the _index.html file for a certain language. I’ve found in the documentation, that it’s possible to override the URL or parts of it with some frontmatter parameters. For example I wanted, t…

I have the same issue. There is no way to translate the section name (taken from directory name in the filesystem) to another language in a multilingual mode. Neither slug nor url in the frontmatter work. I have content/news/_index.md and content/news/_index.ru.md which define a section for news po…

For what it’s worth, there is already an issue for it on GitHub: https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/3354 I get stuck with this issue with Japanese. My solution so far has been to use the permalinks setting in my config.yaml to fix the subpages, and then put a fairly ugly workaround with anothe…

[image] bep: and put the translations in the title. How to change the url of a section using translations in the title? I suppose current sections/folders were designed a long time before the multilanguage feature. Newly added _index.md logically fits into customizing /section/ behavior, and…

[image] deathbaba: How to change the url of a section using translations in the title? You can not. Which is also by design. This may be improved on in the future, but there are very few complaints about this. So it is not a bug, which was my point. A bug is a unforseen defect. In my head, …

[image] bep: In my head, encoding language into URLs isn’t super-important. It improves SEO and readability for users (both in search engines results and on a site itself).

[image] deathbaba: It improves SEO and readability for users (both in search engines results and on a site itself). Sure, but for me it is not important. Which was my point. And I’m not sure you are right about the SEO etc., but that is not important.

How to translate sections?

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bep December 24, 2017, 4:01pm 7

It is as designed. Not a bug. What I suggest is to use a generic term for the section name (i.e. the folder) and put the translations in the title.

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How to translate sections?

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