Multi-language Blog

An update on multi-language blog (available in beta to everyone who has Blog)

Here’s the current status of specific features:

Included at this time:

  • Posts can be grouped and hreflang tags are included
  • Blog settings (including header, page title, meta description, root URL) can be set for each language
  • Global content can be set to different languages using global content editing
  • The language switcher module can be added to your template and works for blog posts
  • Blog subscriptions can be managed for each language of the blog
  • Language switcher module works on the blog listing page (since July 29, 2020)
  • Multi-language Authors (available to all as of August 12, 2020)
  • Multi-language tags (currently “rolling out”; becoming available to more portals every day. Expected to be available to all on August 20th)

Still to come:

  • Ability to group existing posts from other blogs (this will let users who have ‘separate’ blogs for their different languages combine their existing posts)
  • Option to have different templates for each blog language
  • Option to set different comment settings for each language, and different social share settings
  • Ability to import into a multi-language blog (it will probably be a few more months before work can begin on this one)