How to implement multilingual content switching and correct display on the front end of AnQiCMS website?

When building a website for global users, providing multilingual content is a crucial step.AnQiCMS as a comprehensive content management system provides flexible and powerful support to achieve this goal.This article will discuss in detail how to implement multi-language content switching and correct display on the AnQiCMS website.

Build a global website: AnQiCMS overview of multilingual capabilities

AnQiCMS's multilingual support is designed to help website operators easily meet the needs of global content promotion.The core idea is to separate and manage the interface text of the website (such as navigation menus, button text) from the actual content (such as articles, product descriptions).By flexible configuration and template tags, you can provide customized browsing experiences for users of different languages, thereby expanding the international market and enhancing brand influence.

The implementation of multi-language content switching mainly involves three aspects: setting up the background language package, classifying the front-end content, and applying the language switching function and translation tags in the template.

First step: Back-end configuration, activate multi-language capability

First, we need to make some basic configurations in the AnQiCMS backend to ensure that the system has the ability to handle multilingual capabilities.

1. Set the default language package:Log in to the "Global Settings" area of the AnQiCMS backend, where you will find the option for the "Default Language Pack".Here, it usually includes multiple languages such as Chinese and English. Choose the main language of your website as the default language package.This setting mainly affects the built-in prompts, background interface text, and so on.It is a global setting that ensures AnQiCMS runs in the language you choose.

Step two: Content entry, prepare exclusive content for each language

AnQiCMS encourages creating independent content entries for each language.This means an English article and a Chinese article will be two separate documents in the content management backend.This brings extremely high flexibility, allowing you to customize the wording, images, and even the structure of the content according to the habits and cultural backgrounds of different language users.

• Create language-specific content:In the 'Content Management' module, whether it is publishing articles, products, or creating single-page applications, you need to create corresponding content for each target language separately.For example, if your website supports Chinese and English, when you write an article about the company introduction, you need to create a Chinese version of the 'Company Introduction' article, as well as an independent English version of 'Company Profile' article.
• Maintain content relevance (SEO consideration):Although content items are independent, at the SEO level, we need to clearly inform search engines that these contents are different language versions of the same topic. You can set clear identifiers or URL naming conventions for content of different languages when entering content (for example, the URL of a Chinese article may be/zh/about-us, English articles are/en/about-us), This helps to generate the correct one in the template laterhreflang.

Third step: template creation, implement language switching and content display on the front

The core of multilingual function lies in the presentation of front-end templates. AnQiCMS provides a series of powerful template tags, allowing you to easily implement language switching, interface translation, and dynamic content display on the front end.

1. Implementation of language switching link: UselanguagesThe label can be placed anywhere on the website (usually in the header or footer) to generate links to switch between different language versions. This label will retrieve information about all configured multilingual sites.

   `twig {%- languages websites %} {%- if websites %}

   <span>切换语言：</span>
   {%- for item in websites %}
   <a href="{{item.Link}}">
       {%- if item.LanguageIcon %}
       <img src="{{item.LanguageIcon}}" alt="{{item.LanguageName}}"/> {# 显示语言图标，如国旗 #}
       {%- else %}