Hugo for multi-regional sites?

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Hi there. I have just started looking at Hugo and from what I have read it looks amazing. I have done some of the tutorials, but I am not far enough along to know if it can fulfill the need I have in mind.

I am currently working on a WordPress site that has approximately 4000 pages and multiple regions. At the moment, region is detected based on IP and a PHP script redirects to the appropriate region.

Forms are all handled by external software and I am thinking of using lunr for site search.

I believe that I can get region detection working via Javascript, but I need to know:

  1. Can there be a setup where most of the content is replicated for the regions, but some of it is region-specific?

  2. Can certain content be tagged per region and per page (with various criteria?) I believe that it can using the Go HTML templates, for example similar to how tagging works for blog posts, but for different types of data.

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I’ll assume you will use the multilingual feature in Hugo and that region = language (one could imagine that you could build some custom stuff, but I’ll ignore that):

  1. No. One language = one site. You can list translations of a given page and all pages for all sites (language), but you would have to be very creative with the queries to get what you want. But see https://github.com/spf13/hugo/issues/2529
  2. Yes, Hugo has a very powerful concept called taxonomies (can be anything; categories, tags, …), and a set of taxonomies is per language (… region)
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Thank you for your prompt and clear reply, bep.

That link was extremely interesting, although luckily I don’t have as much of an issue as the poster. Just the Hugo multilingual capability will pretty much do what I want it to (I can run a script to convert markdown for the 1 region that doesn’t want to use US English). I can even duplicate all of the markdown files if I need to and just edit the few that need to change manually where products/services are not applicable.

I need to get my head around the taxonomies, but it’s good to know that they are powerful enough to handle what I have in mind, at the moment I have an SQL table structure that has resources (and regional information), and a then a bridging table that links those resources to WordPress pages.

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Sure, but note that a “language” doesn’t have to be a language, it can be anything you want to use to split a site into multiple sites, but language is the common use case.