What I did was I had to create a menu for each language. Then I downloaded the Culture Layer module and made the particular menu active based on the culture. The content items are the easy part, they have a UI for translations. You need the culture widget as well to do all of this.
Arra On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Steven Smith <ssmith.li...@gmail.com>wrote: > Thanks, I have a 2-language site that I originally tried to make > multi-lingual with Orchard but ran into problems (about 6 months ago) > without success. I'm hoping (eventually) that this will get easier. > I basically want to be able to choose multiple languages for each menu > and content item, so that when the user selects EN vs. FR for example, > the appropriate menu and content items are displayed. It doesn't > sound like it was that easy for you, though... > > Steve > > > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Arra Derderian <a...@cloudconstruct.com> > wrote: > > Thanks guys! > > So a couple of pain points I can attest to: > > 1. If you notice on my site we have a primary navigation, secondary, and > > footer navigation. I implemented the Advanced Menu module to support > > the hierarchical style navigation you see. The site slowed down > considerably > > after adding all of these 6 or so Menu Widgets. Secondly, after adding > > multi-lingual support it slowed down even more because we had three menus > > now and I had to add a specific layer for each one. It brought the site > to > > its knees. I had to implement using static HTML widgets for the > navigation > > and used javascript to hide/show elements on the client side. This > brought > > the site to under 2s load time from like 10s. > > 2. The multi lingual support is not fully baked into everything so items > > like the menu and basic widgets do not have support for multi languages. > > This required me to create three separate menus, and duplicate every > widget > > I had across layers. So I have a ton of widgets now, since each section > has > > a distinct banner and secondary navigation. Secondly, the list filtering > > provided by the multi lingual control worked where I needed it to for > some > > content items I localized. The proper items appeared according to > culture. > > But for other items I did not want to localize, ie news and press it > still > > filtered. So I had to duplicate every news and press item. So they > appeared > > for each language. Otherwise nothing would show up. Lastly, the filtering > > does not work for container widget types, so I had to use a Widget > template > > to filter on rendering based on the language cookie set. > > Overall Orchard is awesome! It has made creating sites driven by a CMS > very > > easy and flexible. There are some pain points but it is to be expected as > > the CMS grows. I hope to get into more module development as I get more > > familiar with the coding style of the CMS. > > If anyone has any specific questions, let me know. I am working on my > next > > Orchard site for a client now and hope to launch next week. It has a > custom > > form module that allows for Volunteer signup of activities. It was a > doozy > > :) > > Arra > > > > > > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Chris Bower <digita...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >> We should start a list of Orchard implementations in the wiki. Nice job > >> Arra! > >> From: "Mark Brown (AZURE)" <mark.br...@microsoft.com> > >> Reply-To: <orchard-discuss@lists.outercurve.org> > >> Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 18:20:32 +0000 > >> To: <orchard-discuss@lists.outercurve.org> > >> Subject: RE: Roadmap > >> > >> Yes, very nice. Love the multi-language. Another really well done site > on > >> Orchard!!! > >> > >> > >> > >> From: Chuck DeFeo [mailto:chuck.de...@gmail.com] > >> Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 11:03 AM > >> To: orchard-discuss@lists.outercurve.org > >> Subject: Re: Roadmap > >> > >> > >> > >> One of the better designs for multi-lingual that I have seen. > >> > >> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Sebastien Ros > >> <sebastien....@microsoft.com> wrote: > >> > >> Would love to hear some feedback from you guys about which modules you > had > >> so use or create, and how you handle content management, if it’s not > just > >> static content, like your navigation. > >> > >> > >> > >> From:aderder...@gmail.com [mailto:aderder...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of > Arra > >> Derderian > >> Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 10:36 AM > >> > >> To: orchard-discuss@lists.outercurve.org > >> Subject: Re: Roadmap > >> > >> > >> > >> Here is another example of an Orchard implementation: > >> > >> > >> > >> www.tritondigital.com > >> > >> > >> > >> Multi-lingual support for ES-FR-EN and some custom modules such as > contact > >> form, apple touch icon, meta tagging, and google site search. > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> Arra > >> > >> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Chris Bower <digita...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >> Hah, sweet! Thanks Mark :) > >> > >> > >> > >> From: "Mark Brown (AZURE)" <mark.br...@microsoft.com> > >> Reply-To: <orchard-discuss@lists.outercurve.org> > >> Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 16:55:08 +0000 > >> To: <orchard-discuss@lists.outercurve.org> > >> Subject: RE: Roadmap > >> > >> > >> > >> That really is a really nice site. I show that to lots of people who ask > >> what can you do with Orchard. > >> > >> > >> > >> Great work. > >> > >> Mark > >> > >> > >> > >> From: Chris Bower [mailto:digita...@gmail.com] > >> Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 2:16 AM > >> To: orchard-discuss@lists.outercurve.org > >> Subject: Re: Roadmap > >> > >> > >> > >> Richard, > >> > >> We recently launched a medium-sized site on Orchard. We've been pleased > >> with the results so far. Minus a few hiccups, Orchard has been a good > >> platform for us. You can check out our site at http://aclj.org to see > what > >> is possible with Orchard. > >> > >> > >> > >> From: Richard Garside <richard.gars...@nogginbox.co.uk> > >> Reply-To: <orchard-discuss@lists.outercurve.org> > >> Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:09:44 +0100 > >> To: <orchard-discuss@lists.outercurve.org> > >> Subject: Re: Roadmap > >> > >> > >> > >> You can see what the team is working on at: > >> > >> http://www.orchardproject.net/docs/feature-roadmap.ashx > >> > >> -- > >> Richard Garside > >> Web developer and designer > >> > >> Old Broadcasting House, 148 Woodhouse Lane, Leeds, LS2 9EN. > >> Web: www.nogginbox.co.uk > >> Email: richard.gars...@nogginbox.co.uk > >> Twitter: _richardg > >> > >> On 19 August 2011 09:58, Mike Gutzschhahn > >> <mgutzschh...@romantikhotels.com> wrote: > >> > >> Hello everyone > >> > >> we're planning to relaunch our website. Since other systems grounds on > >> .Net/ASP we don't like to switch e.g. to PHP. > >> > >> But we'd like to know if there's a roadmap for further development, > >> espacially on the core functions. Orchard is quite a new CMS, even if > it's > >> source "Oxide" is count, there not more than three years. > >> > >> We'd appriciate to get your feedback. Or for instance, someone will > adivce > >> a system with long term support if Orchard doesn't so. > >> > >> > >> Thanks a lot > >> Mike > >> > >> --- > >> You are currently subscribed to orchard-discuss as: > >> richard.gars...@richardsprojects.co.uk. > >> To unsubscribe send a blank email to > >> leave-orchard-disc...@lists.outercurve.org. > >> > >> --- You are currently subscribed to orchard-discuss as: > >> digita...@gmail.com. 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