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About this handbook

This handbook belongs to the Quartz plugin quartz-multilanguage. And it is built with it: the switcher at the top right comes from there.

This box, too, appears twice in the configuration — once per language.

8.1 – One site for all

1 Min. Lesezeit

The normal case, and the one this site uses: one build, every language. One address, one deploy, one search, and the switcher jumps between the versions without a detour.

What works properly:

  • Switcher, hreflang, redirects, notices — all of them know all languages
  • A link from a German to an English page stays an ordinary link
  • The explorer shows both language trees

The one place where it grates

The interface texts follow the site-wide locale: “Backlinks”, “Last updated”, the label on the search, the date format. On a German site that is what the English pages say too.

Two things help without splitting the build:

  1. localizeDates: true — at least the dates then follow the page’s language (7.2).
  2. Filter the explorer — it can show one tree per language. The helper for that is in 9.2.

For everything else: anyone needing a fully translated interface builds once per language — 8.2.

The search index covers every language

A search for “coffee” also finds the German page if the word appears there. That is rarely a problem and sometimes wanted; in a shared build it cannot be turned off.