jDiction - is a cool component for creating a multilingual website on CMS Joomla, as well as organizing several languages on your project at once. For example, with its help you can set up support for English and Russian languages and translation between them within the system.
The main purpose of this component is to expand the integration of translation between the admin panel and the display module. In addition, the extension offers additional options, such as import and export functions for popular formats to translate the entire site via Excel or LibreOffice Calc (files CSV or XLIFF for professional translation). However, jDiction does not support automatic translation, but it is a free component.
Let's break down step by step the installation and configuration of the translation component.
1. Downloading and installing the plugin.
Go to the component download page and install it via the extension manager.
2. Configuration.
Enable the jDiction multilanguage package plugin, the language filter system plugin, and the module. Also, go to the language manager and create a new one.
Fill in all the required fields for the new language as shown just above, and in the general Joomla system settings, set the "database" field to the new value - Jdiction_mysql.
In addition, check all the necessary parameters in the component in the "Check" field.
3. Usage.
Go to the content item you need to translate, look for the "Translate" button, click it, and translate the text along with the title and metadata.
Then save your article - you should see an icon (a flag of the language you were supposed to translate the content into).
Advantages
- Ability to set up multilingual support for the site.
- Display of languages for switching in the form of a module.
- Easy integration into the system, available settings and parameters.
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