Building a website that is able to present content in more than one language requires a fair amount of planning. What content types should be available in more than one language? Should the nodes be translated, or should each node be created for one language at a time, independently of each other? How should taxonomy terms be handled? Menus? Is it enough to have administration pages in one language only? Should labels for entity fields be translated too? Which views should display all content, and which should be language-sensitive?

This chapter describes the basics in managing Drupal content in more than one language and gives some advice about where to find information on more advanced multilingual options.

The initial version of this section of the Community Documentation came from the book Drupal 7: The Essentials, courtesy of NodeOne and Johan Falk.