Hello! I am developing internationalized ghost theme. And there are certain things that I need to switch depending on current locale. For example, I need to have language switcher in a navigation bar, with highlighted current language. I wanted to use a custom helper, but it seems that now it’s no…

[image] takka: I need to have language switcher in a navigation bar Currently the site language is selected by the admin in settings. To allow site visitors to choose it themselves, there are community proposals for multilingual Ghost sites, still waiting for interested people to prepare pull…

Thanks for the reply! [image] Juan: For the time being, there is the workaround of installing several Ghost sites, one for each language (e.g. example.com/es , example.com/fr , etc.). That is the way I am implementing it. But I have a multicountry blog, and one of the countries is bilingual. S…

[image] takka: Maybe I will find some workaround with translations file. Yes, that’s likely, since translated strings can include unescaped HTML such as links by using triple braces: {{{t "..."}}}

hey guys, I wonder what if need fully sunchronized two-language blog – should I go with Ghost? I know that I can use third-party tranlsation widgets like Weglot or Localizer, though I would prefer something like WPML in Wordpress or native “cultures” in EnduroJS [babel] So can I?

Thanks! From your experienced developer opinion – is it hard to handle issue in Ghost? If I decide to do it – what crucial steps should I undertake? Right now it is just the url handlng that bothers me most, other things like ID + language seems to be not so hard to implement.

@sorokinvj It depends on the different issues. I think that one—multilingual Ghost site—can take time because, in the case of open source, people are busy with many other things, work, family, etc. However, like you, several people have already expressed their interest in contributing to that projec…

It’s worth noting that the Ghost core team is working on internal projects that will make multi-language sites easier. The first stepping stone to this is the “ Ghost's Channels - #8 by dsecareanu ” project that would enable you to section your site via tag, that would open up the possibility of using…

Hi Kevin, Nice we started to translate our blog and the channels project is exactly what we need. Any Guestimate for theses features? 2018? 2019? Thanks

Nice we started to translate our blog and the channels project is exactly what we need. Any Guestimate for theses features? 2018? 2019? Dynamic Routing Beta (which includes channels) will be announced with Ghost 2.0. Definitely 2018.

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Juan June 2, 2018, 1:01am 6

@sorokinvj That’s more like the proposal Multi-lingual Content Publishing - Ideas - Ghost Forum, and issue [i18n] Multi-lingual Content Publishing (Mockups) · Issue #8509 · TryGhost/Ghost, to be developed.

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