Languages

Your site offers its content in one or more languages, set when the site is set up. The first is the site's default language. Every required field is written in it first, and visitors see it whenever another language has no text yet.

Writing in each language

Each field that a visitor reads has one box per language, labelled with the language's own name, such as Title (Français). The default language's box is required. The others fill in as you translate.

The page's Web address is one value for every language.

An image's alternative text has one box per language too. A screen reader speaks it in the visitor's language.

What still needs translating

• In the editor, Not translated into Français yet names the languages whose required fields are still empty.
• In a content list, an orange chip names the same languages on each item.
• Ready to publish in the editor means every required field in every language is filled.

Machine translation

With your Aptli hub connected and translation on for one of its portals, the editor's Content card holds a translation bar.

1. Pick the language under Translate into.
2. Press Translate.
3. Read each filled field, correct what needs it, and press Save.

The bar translates from the default language. It fills only the fields that are empty in that language. Your own translations stay. Replace existing translates every field again. Images, attachments, links and code are carried across as they are.

Nothing is saved until you press Save. One translation takes up to 60,000 characters.

Translation is switched on in Aptli, under the portal's settings, with Allow machine translation.

What visitors see

The site's header carries a language switch: one button per language for a site with up to three, a globe menu for four or more. Switching opens the same page in the chosen language. The default language's addresses have no language prefix; the others start with theirs, such as /fr/.

A visitor's first visit to the home page opens in their browser's language when the site offers it. A link to an inner page opens in the language it names.

When a page has no text in the visitor's language, the site shows the default language's text, with a note: This page is not yet available in Español. Showing the English version.

The admin's own language

Every admin screen, sign-in included, has its own language switch. Your choice is kept on your computer and stays after you sign out. A password reset link opens in the language its email was written in.