Broken taxonomy terms links (~~Translation of taxonomy terms~~)

[Guillawme]

Hello there,

I am trying to do exactly what is described here: translating taxonomy terms (in my case, categories and tags, but that could be anything else). And I have the same problem: taxonomy terms won't translate, no matter what I write in i18n/my-language.toml.

I understand the principle of the suggested solution, and I know it should be possible to write my own templates and make them take precedence over the ones in Minimo (that's the way Hugo works), but I have near-zero experience with web design (which is why I am using an already made theme and not designing my own) and I am unable to figure out which template files I need to customize.

Would it be possible to add the capability to translate taxonomy terms to Minimo?
Thank you so much in advance.

[MunifTanjim]

taxonomy terms won't translate, no matter what I write in i18n/my-language.toml.

i18n directory is not generally for translating contents.

I have near-zero experience with web design (which is why I am using an already made theme and not designing my own) and I am unable to figure out which template files I need to customize.

You don't need to touch any template files for doing what you want.

Let's see an example:

Suppose, you want to translate a category named movie. Just create a file (for English): /content/categories/movie/_index.en.md with the following frontmatter:

title: Movie (in english)

And for French, create a file: /content/categories/movie/_index.fr.md with the following frontmatter:

title: Movie (in french)

You can do this for any Language and any taxonomy terms.

And add that category in your content's frontmatter, like this:

categories:
  - movie

Let me know if you had any problem.

[Guillawme]

Ah, this point was completely unclear to me from Hugo's documentation. Thank you, that's very helpful and it indeed works fine this way.

[Guillawme]

Reopening this, because I noticed something doesn't work with multilingual taxonomies. Here is an example.

I have a tag hiking and its fr translation randonnees, set up this way: default language is en, and I have content/tags/hiking/_index.fr.md. This file contains:

---
title: Randonnées
slug: randonnees
---

I also have this in my config.toml:

[permalinks]
tags = "/tags/:slug/"

And in my posts, I have hiking listed in tags in the front matter.

What should happen: in the fr version of the site, the page example.com/fr/tags should have tags listed in French, and clicking such tags should direct to their fr slug.

What happens instead: on the page example.com/fr/tags, tags are displayed correctly (i.e. they are translated OK), but clicking on them directs to their slug in the default language (which I also set explicitly in content/tags/hiking/_index.md), and because this path is not built under fr this leads to a page not found. If I edit the URL to replace the default language slug by the translated slug, I can get the term page to display fine (so it is built correctly, simply not linked to correctly).

This time it seems it's because of a template not following the permalink settings.

I hope you can help with that.

[MunifTanjim]

@Guilz this should solve the issue.

[Guillawme]

It solved it, thank you. 👍