So now that Italian is installed as our second language for this Web site, the
next thing I want to do is I want to create what's called a content language.
If you look in any piece of content here in the Web site -- let's just look at the
Article Manager here for a moment, and look at one of these articles.
Over here on the side, we have a dropdown for Language, and right now that
dropdown is populated with All, or English, but Italian doesn't show up in this dropdown.
So what we're going to do next is create what's called the content language.
This is going to populate this dropdown, so that we can assign languages to
specific articles, categories, menu items, and so forth.
So to do this, I am going to close out my article here.
I am going to go to Extensions > Language Manager, and I'm going to go to a Content
item here over in the left navigation.
Right now, here is English, which is one of the two languages that shows up in that dropdown.
All is a catchall, and is always there by default.
English is the other language that's there.
Now I need to go ahead and add an Italian content language.
To do that, as always, we click the big green New button, and I am going to give
this a Title of Italian, and then I'm going to assign the native title.
This is the way the Italians would say Italian, which is Italiano.
The URL language code is in the URL for the Web site.
What two letter code is going to show up indicating that you're in one
language or another.
So it's usually like EN for English, or ES for Spanish; for Italian it is IT.
The image prefix has to do with the little flags that are going to show up
in language switcher.
The flags are associated in the back-end of Joomla,
and they are associated with the various countries.
So if you know that two letter country code, that flag, if it's available, will
show up in language switcher.
So once again, that's IT.
Then the LanguageTtag is the form of Italian you happen to be using, or the form of English.
So by default, the form of English is en-GB, for Great Britain.
There is also en-US, for the United States. Or for French, for example, you can have
fr-FR; that would be the French that's spoken in France, or fr-QC, for the French
that spoken in Quebec.
So here for the Language Tag, it's just it-IT.
So this is Italian as the Italians speak in Italy.
That is all we need to fill out here for this information.
Go ahead and say Save & Close, and you will see Italian will show up here as a
language that's available here as a content language.
Now if I go back to my Content, back to my Article Manager, and I take a look
at one of my Articles,
here in the dropdown, I now have the option of choosing Italian.
So that's the second step in the process is creating our content language, so
that that is there in a dropdown, and now we can start to assign that to various
kinds of content here in the back-end of Joomla.