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Wagtail Modeltranslation

This app is built using core features of django-modeltranslation: https://github.com/deschler/django-modeltranslation

It's an alternative approach for i18n support on Wagtail CMS websites.

The wagtail-modeltranslation application is used to translate dynamic content of existing Wagtail models to an arbitrary number of languages, without having to change the original model classes. It uses a registration approach (comparable to Django's admin app) to add translations to existing or new projects and is fully integrated into the Wagtail admin UI.

The advantage of a registration approach is the ability to add translations to models on a per-app basis. You can use the same app in different projects, whether or not they use translations, and without touching the original model class.

https://github.com/infoportugal/wagtail-modeltranslation/blob/master/screenshot.png?raw=true

Features

  • Add translations without changing existing models or views
  • Translation fields are stored in the same table (no expensive joins)
  • Supports inherited models (abstract and multi-table inheritance)
  • Handle more than just text fields
  • Wagtail admin integration
  • Flexible fallbacks, auto-population and more!
  • Default Page model fields has translatable fields by default
  • StreamFields are now supported!

Quick start

  1. Install wagtail-modeltranslation:

    pip install wagtail-modeltranslation
    
  2. Add "wagtail_modeltranslation" to your INSTALLED_APPS setting like this (before all apps that you want to translate):

    INSTALLED_APPS = (
        ...
        'wagtail_modeltranslation',
    )
    
  3. Add "django.middleware.locale.LocaleMiddleware" to MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES on your settings.py:

    MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
        ...
        'django.middleware.locale.LocaleMiddleware',
    )
    
  4. Enable i18n on settings.py:

    USE_I18N = True
    
  5. Define available languages on settings.py:

    LANGUAGES = (
        ('pt', u'Português'),
        ('es', u'Espanhol'),
        ('fr', u'Francês'),
    )
    
  6. Create translation.py inside the root folder of the app where the model you want to translate exists:

    from .models import Foo
    from wagtail_modeltranslation.translator import WagtailTranslationOptions
    from modeltranslation.decorators import register
    
    
    @register(Foo)
    class FooTR(WagtailTranslationOptions):
        fields = (
            'body',
        )
    
  7. Run python manage.py makemigrations followed by python manage.py migrate

Upgrade considerations (v0.6)

This version has some important changes as there was a refactoring to include django-modeltranslation as a dependency instead of duplicating their code in our version. This allow us to focus on Wagtail admin integration features as django-modeltranslation is very well mantained and is very quickly to fix problems with the latest Django versions. This way we also keep all the django-modeltranslation features (if you want you can also customize django-admin, for example). We also provide a new class to create the translation options classes: WagtailTranslationOptions Most of the changes are related to imports as they change from wagtail-modeltranslation to modeltranslation.

To upgrade to this version you need to:

  • Replace the TranslationOption with WagtailTranslationOptions in all translation.py files
  • The import of the register decorator is now from modeltranslation.decorators import register
  • The import of translator is now from modeltranslation.translator import translator

Project Home

https://github.com/infoportugal/wagtail-modeltranslation

Documentation

http://wagtail-modeltranslation.readthedocs.io/

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Simple app containing a mixin model that integrates modeltranslation (https://github.com/deschler/django-modeltranslation) into wagtail panels system.

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