i18n: Plugin does not work with jekyll-multiple-languages-plugin

[rtaibah]

Been knee deep with a i18n project, and this plugin does not work well with page title tags (maybe other elements too, haven't investigated.)

The jekyll-multiple-languages-plugin [1] works by changing the title frontmatter to refer to separate language files placed in i18n/language-name/posts/blog.md where the actual translated text lives. As such:

---
title: posts.blog.title
subtitle: posts.blog.subtitle
---

{% tf posts/blog.md %}

The end result is translated files, but bad seo, as titles are being outputted as a literal posts.blog.title.

Now I am willing to look into this plugin and figure out how to do it and then do a PR, but I am not the most well-versed in Ruby. Any pointers or help would be highly appreciated.

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[1] Jekyll Multiple Languages Plugin

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[jokeum]

+1 I for now use {% seo title=false %} with a custom <title>{% t page.title %}</title> instead, but the og:title is still there and outputting wrong tag.

[trasher]

:+1:

@jokeum Looking at the template file, og:title is conditionned on page_title not title ;) Note that one is also used for twitter:title meta tag.

[shushugah]

Hey I am a maintainer of jekyll-multiple-languages-plugin is there something I could to help?

[trasher]

Hi @shushugah, thanks for your attention :)

As far as I've seen, seo-tag do use page.title property to construct its own page title that is then used in several places finally (title, meta/og:ittle json+ld, and maybe other).

Of course, when using multiple-languages plugin, page.title value is the slug for the translation; and it is used verbatim. I've been (almost) able to get things working on my side, hacking the seo-tag provided template to provide my own title and meta/og:title values (see #393, https://github.com/galette/website/blob/develop/_includes/head.html#L9 and https://github.com/galette/website/blob/develop/seo-tag-galette-fix.patch). Not really elegant nor maintainable solution

Thinking about how to get that working, I see two possibilities:

1. make seo-tag aware of translation plugin presence, and tell it to take the correct title from the very beginning - a kind of "if lang plugin present, ask it for title, otherwise take raw value" (this would work only for multiple-languages-plugin, but that sounds possible [if seo-tag maintainers are ok with that kind of stuff]),
2. make page.title be translated before it is called/used from seo-tag; I do not even know if it is possible but that would be a possible global solution for all other langs plugins as well (while the first one would require a condition for every other possible plugin).

I'm not a jekyll nor ruby expert at all (I began to use jekyll less than 2 weeks ago), and I've unfortunately not been able to find how to implement any of those solutions (and maybe there is another, better solution I did not think about!).

Anyways, thanks to everyone involved in both plugins; I do had issues, but my project new website is up and running now :-)

[Jaibararia-wfd]

Hello Everyone, Just want to know that is this approach ( Compatibility with jekyll-seo-tag kurtsson/jekyll-multiple-languages-plugin#143) is working or not? If not then is there any solution yet?

[ghost]

I don't think so, but I am running into the same issue :(