DrupalCon Vienna 2017: Lessons Learned from Building a Large Multilingual Site in Drupal 8
About this talk
This talk focuses on improving multilingual support in Drupal 8, highlighting its enhanced capabilities compared to Drupal 7. The speaker shares insights from a recent project involving a website with 13 languages across four regions, covering the entire process from basic configuration to regional localization, including challenges faced and lessons learned. Key topics include language negotiation, translating nodes and taxonomy terms, addressing translation issues with paragraphs and menus, and managing views and other configurations. Attendees should have a solid understanding of Drupal site-building and be familiar with content types and views, although prior knowledge of multilingual support in Drupal 7 is not required.