Drupal 8 + PHP 7 Release Party

Drupal 8 Multilingual Overview

Hong Kong Drupal User Group(HKDUG)

2015 Dec 19th

Francis Yan

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Outline

● Enabling Multilingual in Drupal 8● Enabling Translation for Entity● Input Multilingual Content● Input Multilingual Menu● Input Multilingual Block● Result

Enabling Multilingual in Drupal 8

● Drupal 8 do not enable multilingual bydefault

● Go to Admin > Extend page to enable the 4multilingual modules

Enabling Multilingual in Drupal 8

Enabling Multilingual in Drupal 8

● After enabling multilingual modules, addlanguages that you need

Enabling Multilingual in Drupal 8

Enabling Multilingual in Drupal 8

Enabling Translation for Entity

● OK, your Drupal 8 is now multilingual ready● Next, specify which entity that need

translation– e.g. Content, Custom Block, Custom Menu Link

Enabling Translation for Entity

Enabling Translation for Entity

● Selecting which entity for translation is notfinished

● Specify which fields in entity need translation

Enabling Translation for Entity

Input Multilingual Content

● Inputing content is easy● Content > Translation > Content

Input Multilingual Content

Input Multilingual Content

Input Multilingual Content

Input Multilingual Content

● In previous slide, you found that menu intranslated content (Chinese) is not translated

● You need to translate the menu in menupage, not content page

Input Multilingual Menu

Input Multilingual Menu

Input Multilingual Block

● Input Block is similar as Content● Need to specify visibility

Input Multilingual Block

Input Multilingual Block

Input Multilingual Block

Input Multilingual Block

Result

Result

Q&A

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