Creating a multilingual website is always a welcome and much useful thing to site owners especially who have global customers. However, some of them may not know how to effectively and easily create the same for their Magento powered website. Today, in this tutorial, I’ll guide you with the process for setting up a multilingual website in Magento.
The following step guide will help you to establish 2 multilingual stores on a website and by adapting the same technique you can set up multiple languages on the site without any hassles.
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Login to the admin panel.
Go to System –> Configuration and click on Manage Stores
Click Create Store View button on left corner. It will redirect you to New Store View page.
Enter the field Name and Code as (e.g.) French and click button Save Store View
Now the French Store is created.
How to configure the store in the admin?
Go to System –> Configuration and select Current Configuration Scope:
Select French option in right side and click tab General –> General
Then click second group tab Locale Options
Locale field is in disabled mode, before that uncheck the Use Website select box.
Now Locale field is enabled, then select the French (France) option and save it.
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Magento Translations:
Go to Magento site to download the language pack.
http://www.magentocommerce.com/translations
Select any language for example I have selected French (France) package.
Then it will redirect you to http://www.magentocommerce.com/translations/list/9
Download the package and keep it your system,
Go to Magento site admin panel. Magento Connect
Installation path System → Magento Connect → Magento Connect Manager
Login to Magento Connect Manager panel with username and password.
Direct package file upload:
Choose the downloaded file (fr_FR.zip) and upload it.
Then Click refresh button in the panel and click the link Return to Admin.
Note: Clear the cache in cache management Admin by navigating System –> Cache Management.
Refresh the Magento fronted and it will show the layout like this
Choose whatever language you wish to.
This post will help you to create your own multi-lingual eCommerce website in Magento. Try this and let us know your feedback, also tell us about the other ways you use for the same.
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Hi,
Just tested with my ecommerce store for switching my estore to native language. Thanks for sharing and hope it will be helpful for others too who in the search for language transferring.
Hi Brijesh,
That’s great to hear from you. We’ve collections of ecommerce related tips. Have a look at those posts.
Thanks!
I didn’t know how to change the language. Thankfully after reading this post I spotted current configuration scope option and was able to change the language. Very helpful guide.
Hello,
I need to create a multi-lingual photo gallery (over 1,000 images). If I use Magento’s Stores feature to create this, will I need to duplicate all my images? For example, if I want a website with French, German and Russian languages, will I have to copy all 1,000 images 3 times?
Hi Nalin,
No need to duplicate those images, It will increase loading time and server response time. You could call the same gallery functions in those multilingual sites which contain galleries.
Hi Ramanathan,
I am in process to hosting a eCommerce website for rural customers in India. Read more about Magento and find one difficulty of Indian languages. If I choose Magento then can you or else helps us to host/setup the website? Or let me know the proper channel to reach you. Please contact me thru cha***m**@gmail.com
Thanks and Regards,
Madhukar Chavan
Hello Madhukar,
Thanks for your enquiry, one of our apptha executives will reach you shortly to discuss more about your needs,
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