Have you ever thought about making your site in 2 or more different languages? This post will help you to find out more about multilingual Jimdo websites, - with examples, tips and suggestions.

*Updated March 2018

Multilingual Jimdo

Matrix Themes

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Creating a navigation structure

On the screenshot you can see that we have to use the first level of navigation only for language select. Then we can add sub-pages for each language

everything you need to know

Navigation

You cannot have dropdown menu in multilingual website. No matter whether you're using standard or custom layout, the navigation will allow you to have only the standard menu with 3 levels

Multilingual & Dropdown

There's only one multilingual theme with dropdown menu,- Enkel Multilingual. Please note that here you can use max 2 different languages

Default system elements

Even if you add 2 or more different languages, some elements of your website will always have the main language set in Jimdo admin ( notes in contact forms, check-out process, blog date, default pages with taxes, delivery information etc )

Specific pages

Jimdo system doesn't display the second and third levels of navigation in specific pages such as blog posts, check-out process, not found page etc. For that reason, in some of the Matrix multilingual themes the responsive menu is displayed in above pages

Footer

You cannot display different content in sidebar or footer for each language. The sidebar or footer is a great place to display the important information on your website ( contact, working hours, social icons, custom widgets etc) . For that reason this section doesn't need to be translated.