topic Re: How to change the Menu Language . in CMS Development

How to change the Menu Language .

FKazemi — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 09:19:52 GMT

I have a website wich is in two languages. "en and ed"
So when I click on any page in ed language , I want to change the names of menu like Home, Contact Us and so on .
for exampl my current language is English and menu is english.
But when I change the page language in another language, still the Menu is in language.

Re: How to change the Menu Language .

Jaycee_Lewis — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 23:17:45 GMT

Hi, @FKazemi 👋. Can you provide any addition details about your set-up? And the specific method you are currently using? Also, have you already looked at this post from our Community Champion @Anton?

Best,

Jaycee

Re: How to change the Menu Language .

FKazemi — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 05:54:08 GMT

HI @Jaycee_Lewis ,

Thanks for replying.

Acctually I did not any specific set-up, I just create a Menu [Germany].
here is my link: https://6979396.hs-sites.com/de/tseba
In default the Menu is in Germany. So when I change the language the web site to english I want change the menu from germany to english.
Is there any way to implement this ?

Re: How to change the Menu Language .

Anton — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 23:03:54 GMT

Hi @FKazemi,

natürlich kann man das menü übersetzen 😁

But let's keep it in english so everybody can read this

Assuming you've already created multi-language variants of your pages you can follow those steps to translate your menu. Please note that the language switcher will appear only on pages that have a published translation

open the navigation editor (settings -> Website -> Navigations menus)
Click on "more" and select "clone"
Rename it to something you can easily understand. I'm building my naming convention something like this "EN | Main Menu" and "DE | Main Menu" but - it's completly up to you
Replace the Label(left column) with the according translation and the link(right column) with the translated page(make sure to select the right one)
Publish this menu
Open any page in the page-editor (Marketing -> Websites/Landing pages...) or via the design-tools(Marketing -> Files & Templates -> Design-Tools; not recommended if you're not familiar with code) and click on the header(I'm assuming you want to translate the header menu). A pop-up window will inform you that this is a global content partial.
Go to the global content editor(orange button in the pop-up)
Click on the globe icon in the top left corner below the "back to page editor" button and add a new multi-language variant. Note: If your pages are in german as default create only an english translation. Important: select the exact same language you've translated the pages. So if you have translated your pages in "English" select "English" if you have created translations for "English-United States" select "English-United States". Otherwise the language-switcher won't work
Once you have created the multi-language variant of the global element click on the menu and select the newly created menu. So if you have created an "English" tranlation, select the "EN | Main Menu" in the just created multi-language variant. Also double-check if the german variant has the german menu
Publish
Done

hope this helps

best,

Anton