Is there a way to retrieve the value of defaultContentLanguage?

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It can help to make more flexible default templates for multilanguage sites (e.g. hreflang link attributes in html headers).

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No, but the langugages are sorted, so if you want ā€œthe firstā€ you can always do index .Site.Home.AllTranslations 0.

3

Great! Thanks.

4

I think of if we can get the value of ā€˜defaultContentLanguageā€™ will be better.

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If it can help you (in the context of multi-language sites), I did my hreflang this way, ranging over existing translations

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Thanks! @martignoni

      {{ if .Site.IsMultiLingual }}
  <a href="{{ .Site.BaseURL }}{{.Site.Language }}" class="link white">
     Jenkins X
     {{ .Page.Lang }}
  </a>
  {{ else }}
  <a href="{{ .Site.BaseURL }}" class="link white">
     Jenkins X
  </a>
  {{ end }}

This is what I want. But here is a problem, it will get 404 when current pageā€™s language is the defaultContentLanguage. So I need to know the default language.

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Looking at your code, it seems what you want isnā€™t exactly related to hreflang, and seems instead like a language switch.

Did you have a look here: Language switcher in menu?

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Thanks for your reply. Thatā€™s very good. Maybe you can contribute it to gohugoTheme.

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This is planned, but I think my theme is not totally ready for publication yet. :blush:

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Is this still the case: site.DefaultContentLanguage canā€™t be read from templates?

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The defaultContentLanguage in the site configuration is not exposed to the templates.