[SOLVED] Help to understand content translation

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Goodmorning everyone,

I’m setting up a small personal blog in Hugo, for now is only in italian but I would like to make the default language english with italian translation.

I’m having an hard time to understand how translation works in Hugo, I read the doc and tried to implement an it/ and en/ directory with the same content (I will change it later) and I tried to make a test.md in english and put that in both directories, in this case italian translation didn’t work.

My hugo.toml:

baseURL = "https://lorenzocesana.xyz/"
languageCode = "en-us"

title = "Lorenzo Cesana's Website"
theme = 'lugo'

[Params]
        email = "lorenzo@lorenzocesana.xyz"

defaultContentLanguage = 'en'
defaultContentLanguageInSubdir = true
[languages]
  [languages.en]
  contentDir = 'content/en'
  disabled = false
  languageCode = 'en-US'
  languageDirection = 'ltr'
  languageName = "English"
  weight = 1

  [languages.it]
  contentDir = 'content/it'
  disabled = false
  languageCode = 'it-IT'
  languageDirection = 'ltr'
  languageName = "Italian"
  weight = 2

Of course I’m getting something wrong here, could someone help me understand?

Many thanks in advance

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What does this mean?

Your site configuration looks fine.

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I mean that I created a new page in content/en called “test.md” and I wrote inside something like “Test for english translation”; copied that into content/it and the content was still “Test for english translation” (in english).

As I said I think I’m missing something, maybe I have to tell in some way(?) to the it page that it needed to be traslated from english?

With this config, are those the correct steps to create a page and automatically translate it?

Thanks for the reply (and sorry for my late one)

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Yeah, so, you need to translate the content yourself.

You can use translation tables for words in your templates.

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Gotcha.

I was hoping for some magic trick that allowed me to automatically translate pages, guess I have to script something myself.

Many thanks for clearing this out for me!

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