Regional University Computing Center Kaiserslautern-Landau

Translate pages

This guide is waiting to be updated

It

  • shows the current procedure for the Typo3 editors, but
  • may still show old TUK design options that are no longer available
  • or possibly shows the procedure in an older Typo3 version, which is only slightly different.

If you have any questions or to speed up the updating of _this_ guide, please write to rz-typo3(at)rptu.de

In TYPO3, websites can be designed in several languages .

The language can then be changed by the visitor using the corresponding button.

Video

The following video will also help you to translate websites.

(more videos by J. Weiland at jweiland.net)

Example

Instructions

First make sure that you are in the page view .

  1. At the top of the editing area, select"Languages" from the drop-down menu above the navigation icons.
  2. Now select the appropriate target language from the"Create new translation of this page" drop-down menu.

5 . now click on"Translate" in the content area.
6. select"Copy".
7. click"Next".

9. display the page in the frontend and select "EN" in the language menu at the top right.

3. first translate the page properties

4. save and close

Translate:

  • Start/stop times cannot be changed
  • Content elements are also moved

→ tight binding to original element


Copy:

  • Freer editing possible
  • Copies the content element

→ No binding to the original element

8. replace the fields marked with [Translate to ... :] with the corresponding translation. To translate content, it is best to use DeepL.

You are in the self-study course and would like to go to the training start page, then click on TYPO3 self-study for beginners part 2.

You are currently in self-training, then click on Exercise - Translate pages to continue.

Exercise - Translate pages
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