How can a corporate website effectively reach users worldwide in the increasingly globalized market, with language barriers being the first challenge to overcome.AnQiCMS knows this and therefore made multilingual support one of the core features from the very beginning, aiming to help users easily achieve global promotion and display of content.
How AnQiCMS deals with global challenges: The foundation of multilingual support
AnQiCMS provides a simple and efficient solution that allows your website to be presented in multiple languages to global users.This means that regardless of where your target audience is located or what language they speak, they can browse your website content in the most familiar way.The core value of this feature lies in the fact that it not only helps enterprises expand their international market, but also is an indispensable part of building a global brand image and enhancing user experience.
System level, AnQiCMS provides the 'Default Language Package' option in the background settings, where you can select the language of the website management backend and some built-in system prompts, such as Chinese or English.This ensures that operators also have a familiar language environment when managing the website.However, the specific content such as articles, products, categories, and customized template text displayed to visitors on the website requires a more flexible mechanism to handle.
Flexible language environment configuration: Backend settings and template translation
For the various texts displayed on the website frontend, AnQiCMS adopts a stratified processing strategy. On the one hand, if you wish to translate the fixed texts in the template (such as navigation menu items, footer copyright statements, form labels, etc.) into multiple languages, you can use the provided translation tags{% tr %}. You only need to create a directory under the template directorylocalesfolder, and follow the language code (such as)zh-cn/en-us) to create subdirectories and correspondingymlTranslate the file.In these files, you can match the original text and translation in the form of key-value pairs.This way, when the website switches to different languages, these template texts can automatically display the corresponding translated content, greatly enhancing the multilingual friendliness of the user interface.
For example, if you have a text key named “yourLocation”, in Englishdefault.ymlis “Your location”, in Englishdefault.ymlauto{% tr "yourLocation" %}auto
Content management multilingual practice: Seamless switching and independent presentation
Just translating the template text is not enough to meet the needs of global promotion. The core content itself also needs to be customized for users of different languages.AnQiCMS's “Multi-site Management” feature plays a key role here.You can create a separate site for each target language, or deploy different language content under the same AnQiCMS instance with domain name resolution and directory structure for independent management.
For example, your Chinese site can bewww.example.comand your English site can been.example.comorwww.example.com/en/.In each independent language site, you can create, edit, and publish articles, products, single pages, and more, without being affected by other language sites.This independent management model ensures the localization quality of the content and the flexibility of operations.When users switch from one language site to another, they see all the carefully prepared content for that language, rather than simple machine translation.
Enhance global visibility: The perfect combination of SEO and multilingual
In global promotion, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is crucial.AnQiCMS knows this and provides powerful tools to ensure that your multilingual content is correctly identified and indexed by search engines worldwide.
The most crucial ishreflangSupport for tags. Through{% languages %}tags, AnQiCMS can automatically generate standardized for your each language sitehreflangLabel, and insert it into the HTML's<head>Block. For example:
{%- languages websites %}
{%- for item in websites %}
<link rel="alternate" href="{{item.Link}}" hreflang="{{item.Language}}">
{%- endfor %}
{%- endlanguages %}
ThesehreflangTags inform search engines that your website has multiple language versions, and which version corresponds to which language or region.This not only helps to avoid duplicate content penalties due to similar content, but also ensures that search engine users in specific languages are directed to the most matching language version website, greatly enhancing the visibility and user experience of the website in international search results.
Moreover, AnQiCMS also supports custom pseudo-static rules, 301 redirect management, and independent TDK (Title, Description, Keywords) settings for each content item.This means you can tailor the URL structure and SEO metadata for each language version to best fit local search habits, further optimizing its performance in global search engines.
Multi-language switch at the template level: the core of user experience
In order to provide a smooth user experience, allowing visitors to easily switch between different language versions, AnQiCMS's{% languages %}Tags also provide an excellent solution. Through this tag, you can easily build a multilingual switcher on the website frontend.
For example, you can design it like this:
{%- languages websites %}
{%- if websites %}
<div>
<span>切换语言：</span>
{%- for item in websites %}
<a href="{{item.Link}}">
{%- if item.LanguageIcon %}
<img src="{{item.LanguageIcon}}" alt="{{item.LanguageName}}" />
{%- else %}
{{item.LanguageEmoji}}
{% endif %}
{{item.LanguageName}}
</a>
{%- endfor %}
</div>
{%- endif %}
{%- endlanguages %}
This code will iterate over all configured multilingual sites and generate a toggle button with the language name, icon or Emoji表情, and corresponding link for each site. When the user clicks on these buttons, the system willitem.LinkNavigate to the corresponding language version of the current page, achieving seamless language switching, ensuring that visitors can always browse your website in their preferred language.
Summary
AnQiCMS through its powerful multi-site management, flexible template translation mechanism, comprehensive SEO support, and convenient user interface switching function, provides a comprehensive multilingual solution for your website.This not only enables content operators to efficiently manage content in different languages, but more importantly, it empowers your enterprise to easily cross language and regional boundaries, promote to global users, and thus occupy a place in the international market.
Common Questions (FAQ)
1. How should I create and manage content for different language versions? Should I translate directly or create anew?AnQiCMS recommends creating independent sites or subdirectories for each language and managing content independently within them.This means you need to write or translate articles, product information, single pages, etc. for each language.For example, there should be an article about "Product A" on the Chinese website, and an article about "Product A" should also be on the English website.This independent management method ensures the localization quality of content and facilitates fine-tuned operations and SEO optimization for different language markets.
2. AnQiCMS的“默认语言包”和模板中的English{% tr %}What is the difference between tags?“Default language package” mainly affects the AnQiCMS backend management interface and some standard prompt information within the system, making it convenient for administrators to operate in an environment they are familiar with.{% tr %}Translate tags are used for the front-end templates of the website where you customize the repetitive text content (such as navigation menus, footer information, form field names, etc.), so that these UI elements can also display the corresponding translations in the visitor's language when switching languages. The content of the website (articles, product descriptions) itself is not{% tr %}The translation scope of the label, which needs to be maintained through independent language versions.
3. How can I ensure that my multilingual website performs well in search engines? What specific support does AnQiCMS provide?AnQiCMS in SEO