Missing dropdown menu / button for multiple languages (language switch) #i18n

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Hello there,

it seems I have some problemes to make my site support i18n and multiple languages.
I am using the latest version of hugo (v0.135), to generate my site.
My blog is divided into blog and content …

Please consider the next post (reply) too, because I was limited regarding link count…

Please do a
git clone https: // GitHub - wehrend/hugo_blog blog,
followed by a
cd blog and
git clone https: // GitHub - wehrend/hugo_content: blog content content to copy my setup,

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I am using the theme hugo-books from alex shpak…

After generating the html sites, I do not get the language switcher block located on my site - where is it?

I have successfully tested the multilanguage example from here ( GitHub - rayjolt/hugo-multilingual-example: An example of how to make a multilingual site with Hugo.) with the hugo book theme

3

There’s no language switcher block the theme, neither the repo you tested with has something like that…

In fact there’s nothing like “THE language switcher” that depends on all the layouts, config … of site and theme. guess you won’t find a plug and play thing to use

The Theme does not support the functionality you need - time to dig in the documentation and coding…

to have a language switcher you will have to adjust the menu for each page to show a link to the translated page.

start here:

4

Let me show you, what I am missing. It is the following html / code snippet :

Screenshot_multilanguage-example
Screenshot_multilanguage-example1910×480 83 KB

how can I replicate this in my local environment?

5

Would I need this:

?

6

This does not work as described

  • there is no blog folder after the first clone
  • looks like the second clone should go into content?

whatever

The site needs some more setup you should describe: Ruby, Asciidoc …

7

I just have to correct myself - ther’s a language switcher within the hugo-book theme:

For me it looks like your config and/or your site organization (folders/files/config…) does not match the way the Hugo-Book theme is expecting things.

I would recommend to take their exampleSite and get it up and running. Study their docs and the exampleSite content organization.

Then try to step by step integrate your content …

here’s a bare running example site setup for the Hugo-Book theme:

git clone https://github.com/alex-shpak/hugo-book
cd hugo-book/exampleSite
hugo server --themesDir ../..
8

Thanks, that sounds more suitable and I will check out the example site as suggested, maybe even add an issue to the hugo book themes project…

9

I’ve set up the given example and could run it working including the rtl feature.
But so far I am able to build it from scratch in my personal project.
And I have no clue , where it goes wrong…

10

Add One content page only then a translation…