Setting hreflang and x-default on a multilingual site (with Hugo) - part 2

[idarek]

Sometime ago I shared with you a link to my website where I looked into implementing hreflang and x-default tags into my personal website, where not all the content were translted.

Setting hreflang and x-default on multilingual site (with Hugo)

Hi All, I would like to share with you my, not so typical (some will call it “hidden” use case) approach to setting hreflang and x-default on multilingual site where not all content is equally translated.

Since then, I made yet another Hugo website and need to re-think this approach for this specific site where there are 3 languages available and all content is translated.

Here, with @jmooring knowledge in the post

How to get a specific translation?

1) Collections .Translations returns a collection of the current page’s translations, excluding the current page. .AllTranslations returns a collection of the current page’s translations, including the current page. 2) .Language vs .Language.Lang {{ printf "%T" .Language }} --> *langs.Language {{ printf "%T" .Language.Lang }} --> string In the where function you are comparing a value of type “*langs.Language” to a value of type “string”. That will always be false. Instead of this: {{ wher…

I get to the point where I find a solution for my new project.

See more for details:

Setting hreflang and x-default on a multilingual site (with Hugo) - part 2

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The code for use in Hugo, for these who don’t have time to read it

<link rel="alternate" hreflang="{{ .Language.LanguageCode }}" href="{{ .Permalink }}">
{{ range .Translations -}}
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="{{ .Language.LanguageCode }}" href="{{ .Permalink }}">
{{ end -}}
{{ $p := index (where .AllTranslations "Language.Lang" "en") 0 }}
<link rel="alternate" href="{{ $p.Permalink }}" hreflang="x-default">