How do I translate site.name to other languages?

[Uri Even-Chen]

Hi Django users,

We have our site.name and other site names (we have 4 sites in Django right now) in templates such as base.html. The site is taken from model Site (```from django.contrib.sites.models import Site```). In templates we just use "{{ site.name }}" or "{{ other_site.name }}". How do we translate these site names to other languages? What is the correct way? Currently I only need the site names in English and Hebrew, but maybe later I will want other languages too.

Our settings file translates the site title. Is it better to translate it in the templates? Because we don't want to translate it twice. If the site title is not defined, the default is the site name (which we want for 2 of our sites). But we need it translated.

from django.conf import settings as dj_settings
from django.contrib.sites.models import Site


def sites(request):
    site = Site.objects.get_current()
    site_title = site.name
    if hasattr(dj_settings, 'SITE_TITLE'):
        site_title = dj_settings.SITE_TITLE
    return {
        'site': site,
        'site_title': site_title,
        'sites': Site.objects.all().order_by('pk'),
    }

You can see the code on GitHub: https://github.com/urievenchen/speedy-net

Thanks,

Uri.

Uri Even-Chen

Phone: +972-54-3995700 Email: u...@speedy.net Website: http://www.speedysoftware.com/uri/en/

[Melvyn Sopacua]

Hi Uri,

 

On Thursday 22 December 2016 19:40:15 Uri Even-Chen wrote:

 

> We have our site.name and other site names (we have 4 sites in Django

> right now) in templates such as base.html. The site is taken from

> model Site (```from django.contrib.sites.models import Site```).

 

Untested, but since Site is a Django Model, have a look at Django Model Translation. I suspect once you get the idea, you'll use it throughout the project.

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Melvyn Sopacua

[Uri Even-Chen]

Thank you!

Uri Even-Chen

Phone: +972-54-3995700 Email: u...@speedy.net Website: http://www.speedysoftware.com/uri/en/

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[Uri Even-Chen]

Hi,

with django-modeltranslation you can add translations to any model, even if it's built-in in Django, but the problem is that migrations are being created in site-packages, outside our git repo, and this would cause issues upgrading Django itself.

(speedy_net)net$ ./manage.py makemigrations

Migrations for 'sites':

  /Users/xtr/.virtualenvs/speedy_net/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/contrib/sites/migrations/0003_auto_20161229_1018.py:

    - Change managers on site

    - Add field name_en to site

    - Add field name_he to site

Is there a way to move the migrations to inside our git repo?

Thanks,

Uri.

Uri Even-Chen

Phone: +972-54-3995700 Email: u...@speedy.net Website: http://www.speedysoftware.com/uri/en/

On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 1:00 AM, Melvyn Sopacua <m.r.s...@gmail.com> wrote:

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