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Multi-Language Support for Website Content

In Site Management Tools (SMT), Multi-Language pages let you create website content and add your own translations in any of your configured languages. The type of content you add determines what translation options are available. If website content doesn’t have translations, the base language shows by default. For SEO metadata, this behavior isn't applied so there’s no negative impact on SEO. You’ll need to provide any SEO translation data for the commerce category.

Note:

The visibility dates you select apply to both the default language and all translations. You can’t pick visibility dates for individual translations.

To learn more, explore these topics:

Creating Website Content Translations

In Site Management Tools (SMT), you can create a translation when you add content to a new or existing landing page.

To create website content translations:

  1. Log in to SMT. For details, see Log In.

  2. Click Overview Mode.

  3. Click the ellipsis beside the page you want to add a translation to.

  4. Click Preview.

  5. Click Edit Mode.

  6. Click Add.

  7. Select the content type you want to add and drag it to the preferred location on the page.

  8. From the settings panel, enter a name in the Name field.

    Note:

    You won’t be able to enter translations until you’ve entered a name for the content in your default language.

  9. From the language dropdown list, select the language you want to create a translation for.

  10. Check the Enable this Translation box.

  11. Where you enter your translation will depend on the content type you've chosen:

    1. If you added the CMS HTML content type, enter the translation in the HTML Code field.

    2. If you added the CMS Image content type, enter the translation in the Image Upload, Link, and Alternate Text fields.

    3. If you added the CMS MerchZone content type, enter the translation in the Merchandising Rule field.

    4. If you added the CMS MerchZone2 content type, enter the translation in the Section Heading and Merchandising Rule fields.

    5. If you added the CMS Text content type, enter the translation in the Text field.

  12. Click Save to finish.

Editing Website Content Translations

In Site Management Tools (SMT), you can edit a translation when you need to update website content.

To edit website content translations:

  1. Log in to SMT. For details, see Log In.

  2. Click Overview Mode.

  3. Select the Pages tab.

  4. Click the ellipsis next to the page you want to edit.

  5. Click Preview.

  6. Click Edit Mode.

  7. Hover over the content you want to edit and click the Edit icon "".

  8. From the settings panel, select the language from the language dropdown list.

  9. Make any required changes.

  10. Click Save to finish.

Hiding Website Content Translations

In Site Management Tools (SMT), you can hide translated content you’re not ready to show on your website.

To hide website content translations:

  1. Log in to SMT. For details, see Log In.

  2. Click Overview Mode.

  3. Select the Pages tab.

  4. Click the ellipsis next to the page you want to hide translations for.

  5. Click Preview.

  6. Select Edit Mode.

  7. Hover over the content you want to hide translations from and click the Edit icon "".

  8. From the settings panel, select the language from the language dropdown list.

  9. Clear the Enable this Translation box.

  10. Click Save to finish.

You can view hidden translations in Overview Mode from the Translations tab. Use the Translation Status filter and select Hidden to display all hidden content.

Deleting Website Content Translations

In Site Management Tools (SMT), you can delete a translation when you don’t need it anymore.

Important:

You can't recover deleted translations.

To delete website content translations:

  1. Log in to SMT. For details, see Log In.

  2. Click Overview Mode.

  3. Click the ellipsis next to the page you want to delete a translation from.

  4. Click Preview.

  5. Select Edit Mode.

  6. Hover over the content that you want to delete translations from and click the Edit icon "".

  7. From the settings panel, select the language from the language dropdown list.

  8. Click the ellipsis and select Delete this Translation.

  9. Click Save to finish.

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