Magento Management

In order to translate the CMS block you need to go to Content > Elements > Blocks choose the block you want to translate and press the Add New Block button since the translation of the block requires manual creation of a new one.

In order to translate the Magento 2 email template, you have to create a new translated on the basis of the existing one. So, navigate to Marketing > Communications > Emails Templates and press the Add New Template button.

In case you have a multi-language store and want to add Store Codes to the URLs to make them look like e.g. yourdomain.com/en, yourdomain.com/fr, yourdomain.com/au follow next steps.

Navigate to Stores > Configuration > General > Web and find the Url Options section. There you choose to Add Store Code to URLs selecting Yes from the corresponding select box and Save Config.

Store Codes are set while creating each store view manually in Stores > All Stores and can be managed there.

Admin Panel Configuration is just one of the

Why would you want to start a multilanguage website if you are making a decent profit with a single language store already? That is a great question to ask. Managing a multi-language Magento website has a lot of benefits that will contribute to your already successful online business immensely.  Multi-language website is an incredible opportunity to create a stunning customer experience and broaden the circle of customers. Moving the store to the global level is one thing online store owners should be keen on doing. It is quite obvious that managing a single language website is easier than multi-language, but just think for a while how many opportunities you will open. In this cycle of articles, we will prove to you that managing a multi-language website isn't as hard as you think it is.

Every store initially has a default store view. You create other store views in order to support different languages in your store as well as for other purposes.

In order to create a new Magento 2 store view go to Stores > Settings > All stores. There, you have to find and press the Create Store View button.

First, you need to download and install the language pack to set a new language on your store. In order to do this, you have to find a language pack you need. Enter e.g. "Magento 2 French locale GitHub" at Google, open the GitHub page, follow all the instructions to install the language package.

The next thing you have to do once you've installed the Magento 2 language pack is to activate it. In order to do it in the Magento 2 Admin Panel navigate to Stores > Configuration > General > Locale Options. In case you have several store views switch to the Store View you want to change the language for and in the Locale dropdown choose the corresponding language. 

In order to translate the Magento CMS Page navigate to Content > Elements > Pages. The translation of the page requires manual creation of a new one so decide which page you want to translate and press the Add New Page to start.

The translation of the product page does not require the creation of a new item. All you need to do is go to Catalog > Products and choose the product you want to make the translation for from the Magento product grid.

The translation of the Magento 2 custom category page doesn't require the creation of the new one. Firstly navigate to Catalog > Categories and change the store view to the one you want to translate the category to.

In case you want to start managing a multi-language website or already have one and look for the best Magento 2 extensions we are ready to provide you with some. Here is the list of the MUST HAVE Magento 2 modules for Multi-language website:

Magento 2 Auto Language Switcher Extension

The main feature of this extension is already included in its name - it switches between store-views automatically. The extensive GeoIP database used by the Auto Language switcher module enables it to identify customers' country and correspondingly point them to the store view in their language. Besides, there is an option to identify customers' language by the language set in their browser.