As a senior website operations manager, I fully understand the importance of multilingual websites in expanding markets and attracting international users in today's increasingly globalized world.And the image, as an indispensable part of content presentation, also requires multilingual support.AnQiCMS provides a series of powerful features to support the operation of multilingual websites, including its image management module. By making good use of it, we can efficiently achieve the accurate display of multilingual images.
English version: AnQiCMS core capability in multilingual image management
AnQiCMS as an enterprise-level content management system, its "multi-site management" and "multi-language support" are the basis for displaying multi-language images. The system allows you to create and independently manage multiple sites, which means you can set up an independent sub-site for each language (for example)en.yourdomain.com/de.yourdomain.comEach site has its own content, images, and language settings. This architecture provides clear boundaries and great flexibility for managing language-specific images.
In addition, AnQiCMS provides a 'flexible content model' that allows us to customize content fields according to business needs.This provides a solution for those who need to display different language images under the same content item (for example, a product page, but in different language versions, marketing images with different text need to be displayed), although using multi-site separation management would be a simpler and more efficient way.The system内置 built-in image resource management function, which allows all images to be uploaded and categorized centrally, laying the foundation for subsequent language version association.
Plan your multilingual image strategy
In AnQiCMS, the key to displaying multilingual images is to establish a clear strategy.The most recommended and direct method is to fully utilize AnQiCMS's multi-site management capabilities, treating each language as an independent site for content and image management.
Firstly, you need to create the corresponding multilingual site in the AnQiCMS backend settings.For example, if your main site is in Chinese, you may need to create an English site and a German site.Each site will have an independent backend content management interface, including its exclusive image resource library.This physical isolation ensures high localization of content and images, avoiding complex template logic.When installing AnQiCMS, or deploying multiple AnQiCMS instances through the Baota panel's Docker, and using its 'multi-site management' feature to add new sites, this provides an independent runtime environment and data storage for each language version.
Upload and manage your image resources
Once the multilingual site architecture is set up, you can start uploading and managing specific image resources for each language site.Navigate to the background of a specific language site, and go to the 'Image Resource Management' module under 'Page Resources'.Here, you can upload all the images required for this language version, whether it's the website logo, banner image, product images, or embedded images in articles.
In order to maintain clarity and efficiency in management, it is recommended that you use a consistent and distinctive naming convention for each language version of the images. For example, your Chinese Banner image can be namedbanner_zh.jpg，English version isbanner_en.jpg，German version isbanner_de.jpg
Associate language images in content creation
In the multi-site mode, content creation and image association become intuitive and concise.When you create or edit articles, products, or single pages under a language site, all images that need to be referenced should be selected from the image resource library of that site.
For example, on the English site's article editing page, when you set the 'document image' (thumbnail) for the article, or insert an image into the 'document content', you will directly upload or select an English version of the image.Similarly, on the German site's product detail page, the "LogoLogo/Thumb/Images）will automatically point to the image resources under the current site, no additional language judgment is required.This means that your content editors only need to focus on the localization of the current language and do not have to worry about whether the images are compatible.
Image display logic in the template
Due to the adoption of a multi-site management model, each language site has independent content and image resources, and the image display logic in the template is therefore greatly simplified.AnQiCMS's template engine will automatically load the content and image data of the corresponding language site based on the current site environment.
In your template file (for examplearchive/detail.html/category/list.htmlorpage/detail.html）中，You can directly use the tags provided by AnQiCMS to call image resources. For example, you can use the tags to call the cover image of the article.{{item.Logo}}or{{archive.Logo}}The Banner image of the category can be called{{category.Images}}.These tags will automatically render the language-specific images associated with the language site under different language sites, because the data source is already the data of the language site.ifConditional statements are used to judge the current language and switch the image path, thus maintaining the neatness and efficiency of the template code.
Optimization and注意事项
To ensure the effect and efficiency of multilingual image display, some optimization measures and precautions are worth paying attention to. The naming of images should be clear and identifiable, which is not only helpful for management