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Creating A Multilingual Store in Magento: A Step-by-Step Guide

Follow these step-by-step guide to easily create a multilingual store in magento and also automate most of the language translation work to make the process easier.

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Creating A Multilingual Store in Magento: A Step-by-Step Guide

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  1. Creating A Multilingual Store in Magento: A Step-by-StepGuide To keep up with the fierce competition in the ecommerce industry, you constantly need to think of ways to broaden your market and increase the sales of your online store. Having a multilingual website helps you to reach out to markets that your competitors are yet to reach; hence you have a good chance of setting up your brand image in the markets with different language and currency preferences. Moreover, you don’t need to exhaust additional resources to run a multilingualsite. The cost of operating a unilingual and multilingual site is about the same. You just need to set up multiple languages and currencies on your current Magento site by following some easy steps. In this blog, we have provided a step-by-step guide to help you create a multilingualstore in Magento byyourself: Step 1: Download LanguagePackages The first step would be to download the relevant language package(s) you require to set up your website in. Visit Magento Connect store for available translations. From the array of packages available, choose the ones that are suitable for your needs. After selectingand

  2. downloading it, you will get a file in the .gzip format. Open it to access the folder app. Upload the folders of design and locale to add the unique files relating to the language you have downloaded. Now, you can move to create the new storeview. • Step 2: Add a new storeview • To display your website in different languages, you will require adding a store view for each of the languages. If you had installed Magento without the sample data, only the English language would be preconfigured as your default language. In case of installation with sample data, itwill have three store views namely French, German, and English. But you still need to download the corresponding language pack to display the frontend in that particular language. Follow the following steps to add a new storeview: • Login to your adminpanel • Go to ‘System’, and further to ‘Configuration’, reach for ‘Managestores’. • Click on ‘Create Store View’ on the topleft. • Once you are redirected to the ‘New Store View’ page, enter the field name and code. For example, if you want to create a Swedish store, writeSwedish. • Save the store view. Now your store had beencreated. • The creation of a store doesn’t show up your website in the selected language. You need to configure the store by installing the language pack or by translating the default text strings manually. • Step 3: Install and Configure the LanguagePackage(s) • The language pack is equipped with the translation files of the of the default text that appears on the front-end of your website. Before these translations reflect on your site, you will need to change the locale settings. Let’s see how to dothis: • Go to ‘System’ and then‘Configuration’. • You will find the ‘Current Configuration Scope’ in the upper left corner. Select the store view for the language you want toconfigure.

  3. Go to the General section on the left. Expand the ‘LocaleOptions’ • Unmark the ‘Use Website’ check box that appears besides the options and set the drop down menu to the preferredlanguage. • Click on the ‘Save Config’ button on the topcorner. • To change the language of your back-end functions, go to the bottom of the admin panel, then to the ‘Interface Locale’ drop down menu, and choose thelanguage. • Magento has a default in-built tool that helps you translate default text strings. If you don’t want to go for the language package and translate it yourself using this tool, follow the given instructions: • Go to ‘System’ >>‘Configuration’ • Click on ‘Developer’ which you will find in the ‘Advanced’menu. • Click on ‘TranslateInline’. • If you want to translate the text in the front end, save the ‘Enabled for Frontend’ option to ‘Yes’. • If you want to translate the text in the back end, save the ‘Enabled for Admin’ option to‘Yes’. • ‘Save configurations’ and move towards editing the translations by using thetool. • Step 4: Change the product descriptions andcategories • For each of the store views, you will need to change the descriptions and categories of the products. Follow the given instructions to complete theprocess: • From the admin panel, go to ‘Catalog’ menu, and then select ‘Manage Products’ from the optionsprovided. • Find the product and click on the ‘Edit’button. • Go to product settings and select the store view from ‘Choose Store View’, unmark the ‘Use Default Value’ and change the value for theoption.

  4. - Click on ‘Save’ or Save and continueEdit’. • You can edit the categories by following the same process from ‘ManageCategories’. • Bypass Step 3 & 4: Use a Language TranslatorExtension • If you don’t want to manually install all the language packs and modify all the product descriptions and categories on your own, you could simplify this process with thisMagento 2 multi-languagetranslator extension. It is a best selling language translator extension from AppJetty and is available for both Magento and Magento 2. With this extension you can translate product details, category details, CMS pages content, product reviews, search strings, etc either one by one or all in onego. • Step 5: Set Up multiple currencies and currency exchangerates • You are expanding your business to geographical locations beyond national boundaries, so along with their native language; you need to show them their respective currencies as well. Here’s how you can set up multiple currencies for yourstore: • Go to ‘System’, and then‘Configuration’. • Mark ‘Default Config’ for ‘Current ConfigurationScope’. • Go to ‘Currency Setup And select your ‘Default Display Currency’ e.g. U.SDollar. • Now, choose the currency options you want to provide on yoursite. • Click on ‘SaveConfig’. • Now, to set up currency exchangerates, • Go to ‘System’ >> ‘Manage CurrencyRates’ • Import the required currency rates by clicking on‘Import’. • Click on ‘Save CurrencyRates’. • You are now done setting up your multilingual site. Clear the cache by going to Admin panel > NavigationSystem>Cachemanagement.Refreshyoursite,changethestoreviewandgo

  5. through a test to see if it works fine. You are now ready to generate more revenues from your ecommercestore. Original Blog:https://www.appjetty.com/blog/creating-multilingual-store-magento-guide

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