Topic: Utilizing Language Selection Options

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How to utilize the various options for language in your Kete site.

Changing the position of the language chooser

By default, the language chooser is positioned in the footer of every page.

You can change this position to be in the header (under search), in the middle of the top menu, to the far right of the top menu, or in the footer (as it is by default).

The settings for this are available at Administrators Panel > Reconfigure Site > Advanced Options > Language Choices Position, then providing one of the options the description of that field describes.

Changing the display of the language chooser

By default, the language chooser is displayed as a dropdown. You can change this display type to be links instead.

Displaying language choices as links is often preferable for sites that support less than 5 languages as it gives a more obvious user interface for what languages are available to the user.

The settings for this are available at Administrators Panel > Reconfigure Site > Advanced Options > Language Choices Display Type, then providing one of the options the description of that field describes.

Hiding the currently displayed language (links display type only)

When viewing the language choices as links, you can hide the currently selected language. Simply add the following CSS to your default theme.

#language_choices_links li.current { display: none; }

Utilizing all these features for sites with only 2-3 lanaguages

Sites with 2 or 3 languages might prefer to make those languages more promenant. The suggested settings to do this are:

Position: Far right of the top menu
Type: Links

And utilizing the CSS above to hide the current language. These make it more clear to the users which other languages are available on the site.

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