LWR Sites for Experience Cloud

LWR Sites for Experience Cloud
Get to Know the LWR Templates
Start Building Your LWR Site
Brand Your LWR Site
Create a Multilingual LWR Site
Add a Language to Your LWR Site
Delete a Language from Your LWR Site
Set the Default Language on Your LWR Site
Automatic Language Detection for Multilingual LWR Sites
Export Content from Your LWR Site for Translation
Import Translated Content to Your LWR Site
Add More Customizations
Manage Data in LWR Sites
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Set the Default Language on Your LWR Site

When you create an LWR site, the default site language is English (US). If you want to change it to a different default language, update the default language as soon as possible after you create the site to avoid losing content.

When you change the default site language, you remove all content in your original default language. If there’s translated content on your site in the new default language, you remove that, too. So it’s best to minimize the amount of content that you add to your site in either language until after you update the default language.

  1. In the Settings panel in Experience Builder, select Languages.
  2. If you haven’t added your intended new default language to the site, add it now.
  3. From the actions menu for your intended new default site language, select Set as default site language. On enhanced LWR sites, if a site language is disabled in your Salesforce org, you can’t select that language as your default site language.

    If you plan to add Salesforce CMS content to your site, it’s important that the site and the CMS workspace have the same default language so that the content appears properly. If the default languages are different, translate the content in your CMS workspace into your default site language, then add the translated content to your site.

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    Actions menu for a language on the Site Languages list on the Languages panel, highlighting Set as default site language
  4. In the confirmation window, click Change.

If you did add content to your site in either language, and you want to preserve that content, export the translation before you change the default site language. The resulting .xlf file contains the content in both languages. The text in your original default language appears within the <source> tags in the file. The text in your intended new default language appears within the <target> tags in the file.

You can’t import this file back to your site, but you can paste the text back into each relevant field in the component property editor panels in Experience Builder.

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