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

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Creating A Multilingual Store in Magento A
Step-by-Step Guide
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
dont need to exhaust additional resources to
run a multilingual site. 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 multilingual store in Magento by
yourself Step 1 Download Language
Packages 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 selecting and
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• 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
  store view.
• Step 2 Add a new store view
• 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, it will 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 store
  view
• Login to your admin panel
• Go to System, and further to Configuration,
  reach for Manage stores.
• Click on Create Store View on the top left.
• 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,
  write Swedish.
• Save the store view. Now your store had been
  created.
• The creation of a store doesnt 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 Language
  Package(s)

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• Go to the General section on the left. Expand the
  Locale Options
• Unmark the Use Website check box that appears
  besides the options and set the drop down menu
  to the preferred language.
• Click on the Save Config button on the top
  corner.
• 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 the language.
• Magento has a default in-built tool that helps
  you translate default text strings. If you dont
  want to go for the language package and translate
  it yourself using this tool, follow the given
  instructions
• Go to System gtgt Configuration
• Click on Developer which you will find in the
  Advanced menu.
• Click on Translate Inline.
• 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.

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• - Click on Save or Save and continue Edit.
• You can edit the categories by following the same
  process from Manage Categories.
• Bypass Step 3 4 Use a Language Translator
  Extension
• If you dont 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 this Magento 2
  multi-language translator 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 one go.
• Step 5 Set Up multiple currencies and currency
  exchange rates
• 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. Heres how
  you can set up multiple currencies for your
  store
• Go to System, and then Configuration.
• Mark Default Config for Current Configuration
  Scope.
• Go to Currency Setup And select your Default
  Display Currency e.g. U.S Dollar.
• Now, choose the currency options you want to
  provide on your site.

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through a test to see if it works fine. You are
now ready to generate more revenues from your
ecommerce store. Original Blog
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l-store-magento-guide