Configuring Content Translation

Goal

Make Custom block, Custom menu link, and Content entity types translatable. Select specific subtypes and set which fields of these can be translated.

Previous Articles

• “Drupal Content Entities and Fields”
• “Drupal User Interface, Configuration, and Content translation”

Site prerequisites

The core Content Translation module must be installed, and your site must have at least two languages. See previous article “Adding a Language”.

Steps

1. In the Manage administrative menu, navigate to Configuration > Regional and language > Content language and translation (admin/config/regional/content-language).

2. Under Custom language settings, check Content, Content block and Custom menu link to make these entity types translatable.
    

   

    

3. Configuration options appear for Content, Content block and Custom menu link. Choose the subtypes you want to translate for each entity type. Check Basic page for Content, Basic block for Content block and Custom menu link for Custom menu link.

4. Verify the settings for the entity types as shown below:

   Field name	Explanation	Example value
   Default language	The default language for the entity subtype	Site’s default language (English)
   Show language selector on create and edit pages	Whether or not the language selector should be shown while editing and creating content	Checked

   

5. Choose the fields that should be translatable for Basic page as shown in the table below. If a field is not translation-dependent, leave it unchecked.

   Field name	Explanation	Example value
   Title	The title of the content	Checked
   Authored by	The author	Unchecked
   Published	Whether the content has been published or not	Checked
   Authored on	Date of publishing	Unchecked
   Changed	Date of last update	Unchecked
   Promoted to front page	Whether the content will be included in some content views	Unchecked
   Sticky at top of lists	Whether the content will be displayed first in some content views	Unchecked
   URL alias	Nicer URL for the content	Checked
   Body	The main content of the page	Checked

   

6. Similarly, check the appropriate boxes for translatable fields belonging to Basic block and Custom menu link.
7. Click Save configuration.

Article from Drupal User Guide. Written and edited by Laura Vass at Pronovix, Jojy Alphonso at Red Crackle, and Jennifer Hodgdon.