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Translating Section Names

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#1

Hello,

I can’t find any examples anywhere, so I thought here would be the place to ask.

I have a Section on my site called “Music”, where each bit of content is an album or a release. I also have my site translated into Portuguese. My URL’s typically end up like:

  • baseurl/en/music/album-name-in-english
  • baseurl/pt/music/album-name-in-portuguese

I was wondering if it was supported to translate the section name, in this case “music”? In Portuguese this would be “musica”. So I’d like to end up with:

  • baseurl/en/music/album-name-in-english
  • baseurl/pt/musica/album-name-in-portuguese

I typically have a content folder that looks like this, with each bit of content sharing a “translationKey”.

  • content/music/album-name-in-english.md
  • content/music/album-name-in-english.pt.md

I’ve seen examples of people translating “About” pages and changing the slug, but they don’t tend to sit inside Sections.
Thanks for any help!

#2

is this an help?

don’t know if this works :wink:

[languages]
  [languages.en]
    [permalinks]
      music = "/music/:year/:month/:day/:title"
  [languages.pt]
    [permalinks]
      music = "/musica/:title"
#3

After changing [permalinks] to [languages.pt.permalinks], all the content pages changed their URLs, but the list page (/musica/) is blank.

However, I think I have a solution - but I’d appreciate someone letting me know if this is sane or not:

I’ve restructured my content as such:

  • content/english/music/album-name-in-english
  • content/portuguese/musica/album-name-in-portugusse

I’ve added a translationKey = “music” to _index.md inside “music” and “musica”. I’ve also ensured the translationKey inside the actual album content is also the same (ie, “album-name”). This appears to work, but perhaps I’m missing a downside to this?

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