Sitefinity CMS enables you, as content creator, to localize your site in as many language versions as required. By using Sitefinity’s multilingual support you can localize pages, content items, taxonomies, and so forth. Thus, you can address your site’s international audience and target a greater number of users.
Creating and working with multilingual items programmatically is very similar to the standard monolingual operations: create, query, modify, and delete. The major difference in managing localized content is that you need to specify the desired culture and pass it as a parameter to the appropriate methods.
This articles examines several common scenarios for working with multilingual items in a non-default culture and demonstrates the use of Sitefinity’s API through code examples.
Prerequisites
To view localized pages and content items from Sitefinity's backend, make sure you set the languages in which pages and items need to be localized in. For more information, see Administration: Language settings.
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Localize pagesTo localize pages, you set the required culture by passing it as a parameter to the Lstring properties of the page. You can also add translations to pages and choose localization strategy.
Create a localized pageTo create a localized page, you set the required culture by passing it as a parameter to the Lstring properties of the page.
Localize content itemsTo localize content items, you set the required culture by passing it as a parameter to the Lstring properties of the item.
Localize dynamic content itemsTo localize dynamic content items, you set the required culture by passing it as a parameter to the Lstring properties of the item.
Query localized itemsYou can query items that have a localized field in multiple cultures. You can query all items from a specific culture, for example all items translated in French.
Create custom resource classesCreate a new resource class and register it in Sitefinity. Resource classes distribute labels among multiple projects or to enable translations of labels and text inside widgets or modules.
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