Well, let me introduce my first Sitecore Module!

SeitenKern Translator is a all-round translator for your website and an important module for all .NET Sitecore developers.

The Translator Module is available on Sitecore Marketplace, you can also download the source code from GitHub, for free!!

Nearly all websites are multilingual and managing translations is always a hard step in development progress.

This module helps you to manage your translations with ease! It builds on the dictionary domain concept (thanks to almighty John West for the explanation), introduced in version 6.6 of the Sitecore ASP.NET Web Content Management System (CMS).

It’s very easy to use! Within 5 Minutes you are ready to take the full advantages of the module, and managing translations is blown out of your mind 😉

The module requires a small set of templates:

• dictionary folder (for structure only)
• dictionary domain (item-id with this template should take place in your site config)
• dictionary folder (the folder for the dictionary index)
• dictionary entry (at least the entry template)

Keep in mind: The dictionary domain has a fallback domain! If a key is not found in the current dictionary, the translator searches for the key in the fallback domain and returns the translation item if key is found. Else, the translator adds the key to the current dictionary.

If a key was loaded from the fallback domain and you set “AddToAllDictionaries” sometime later, the translator is smart enough to recognize this! It adds the translation to the current dictionary and to all other configured dictionaries where not an item with this key exists!

Give it a try and also a recommendation if you like it!

Best regards Dirk