Multilang Sites

Our Themes are ready to be translated. Only 3 steps are required.

Configure your languages

First you need to tell kirby wich languages you will be using, this is done by editing the /site/config/config.php file.
English is pre-registered and set as a default language, so you just need to add your other languages as a simple associative array.

c::set('languages', array(
  array(
    'code'    => 'en',
    'name'    => 'EN',
    'default' => true,
    'locale'  => 'en_US',
    'url'     => '/',
  ),
  array(
    'code'    => 'fr',
    'name'    => 'FR',
    'locale'  => 'fr_FR',
    'url'     => '/fr',
  ),
  array(
    'code'    => 'de',
    'name'    => 'DE',
    'locale'  => 'de_de',
    'url'     => '/de',
  ),
));

Translate Theme Variables

Navigate into the /sites/languages folder and duplitate the file en.php and name it with the specific language shortcode.
Repeat for each available languages and edit the new files with you translations.

Translate you Content

You can now translate your content throught the Panel.

Access your translations

Now that everything is translated you may want to let your visitor access your site in the language their prefer.
You have 2 choices:

• Automatic Language Detection: Kirby can detect the prefered language of the visitor. This has to be activated by adding this in you /site/config/config.php:

  c::set('language.detect', true);

• Let the visitors select their prefered language by adding a language selector in the menu, this can be done in the Site Options configuration page.

You can also combine these 2 solutions.