[Fixed]-Django how to allow translation from admin and guest language picker

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You don’t need any third party package to accomplish what you want to do, Django has it built-in.

  • You add django.middleware.locale.LocaleMiddleware to your middlewares,
  • configure locales in settings.py,
  • wrap your urls in urls.py with django.conf.urls.i18n.i18n_patterns,
  • translate your strings

and you are done.

You get urls like site.com/en/lorem-ipsum for the urls you wrapped with django.conf.urls.i18n.i18n_patterns.

To be more specific about your questions:

1) This is the default behaviour. If you wrap admin url with django.conf.urls.i18n.i18n_patterns, you’ll get admin site in multiple languages, too. With the same url style, like site.com/en/admin/. Here is an example urls.py:

from django.conf.urls import url, include, i18n
from django.contrib import admin

urlpatterns += i18n.i18n_patterns(
    url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls),
    url(r'^products/', include('your_project.apps.products.urls', namespace='products')),
    # ...
)

2) The all urls will be consistent locale-wise. E.g. if the user is on site.com/en/home and there is a link to the about products page the link will be `site.com/en/about’

3) I can understand, it would be a lot easier to update translations on admin site without editing gettext files and such. However, I like the way django handles translation. Making translation something about admin site would involve database and I don’t think it is a good idea to use database for translation.

👤Gokhan Sari

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