Features of Localized Websites
Updated 7 months ago
This article assumes you already know how to translate your site. To learn how to translate your site, have a look at this article.
Language Picker
When your site has pages with multiple languages, it's important to give visitors a way to switch between them. That's why we automatically display a language picker in the header of your pages when there is more than one language.
When a visitor clicks on a language in the language picker, they will be sent to the current page in the selected language. For example if your visitor is on your homepage example.com and clicks on Deutsch they will navigate to example.com/de. If your visitor is on example.com/team and clicks on Français, they'd be sent to example.com/fr/team for example.
Links
When you add links between pages, our system will automatically route visitors to the page of the same language as the current page when available. That means you don't have to adjust the links for your translated pages.
For example on your english version this link will point to /team:
And when you set the language in the editor to French, you'll see that the same link now automatically points to /fr/team without you having to make any changes:
Important: Automatic linking only works when you click the page in the page picker instead of manually entering the url. If you just enter the path of the page like shown below, then your links will still work but they don't adapt to the current language. Just like the UI suggests, click on the page to link it properly.
Sitemap
When a page supports multiple languages, we automatically include them in your sitemap so that search engines can easily find them.
Meta Tags
To help search engines, crawlers and browsers understand the available versions of a page we also automatically include the proper meta tags in the code of your page when you have multiple languages.
