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Mastering Drupal 8

You're reading from   Mastering Drupal 8 An advanced guide to building and maintaining Drupal websites

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785885976
Length 456 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Chaz Chumley Chaz Chumley
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William Hurley William Hurley
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Preface 1. Developer Workflow FREE CHAPTER 2. Site Configuration 3. Managing Users, Roles, and Permissions 4. Content Types, Taxonomy, and Comment Types 5. Working with Blocks 6. Content Authoring, HTML5, and Media 7. Understanding Views 8. Theming Essentials 9. Working with Twig 10. Extending Drupal 11. Working with Forms and the Form API 12. RESTful Services 13. Multilingual Capabilities 14. Configuration Management 15. Site Migration 16. Debugging and Profiling

Translating content

With languages and detection set up, the next step is to translate content. If the content type is marked as translatable in the language configuration, you are able to update how the default language is selected either on that page or on the Edit Basic page content type page. The default setting is to use the site's default language, but you can also use a fixed language, the current interface language, or the author's preferred language. You can also allow the selection of the language on the form used to create or edit a node.

Content type edit screen with language settings

Once a translatable entity has been created, a new tab will appear for users with permissions to translate content. Clicking on the Translate tab shows a list of languages enabled on the site, and either the version of the entity translated into that language or the option...

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