Languages and Blog wording

DonkeyCMS keeps two languages apart:

• The blog language is what your visitors read: dates, buttons and small labels such as "Read more". One per blog, set in Settings → Language.
• Your admin language is what you see in the admin panel. Each person on your team picks their own.

Your posts are written by you, so they are in whatever language you write them in. Write them in the blog language, so every word on the page matches.

Blog language

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1. Type a language and pick it.
2. Your own text for each phrase; empty keeps the gray one.

Open Settings → Language, type the name of a language into Blog language and pick it from the list. You can choose from 130 languages. Press Save changes.

Seven languages come fully translated: English, Romanian, Spanish, German, Hungarian, French and Turkish. Pick one of those and you are done.

For any other language, a yellow note says that visitors see English until you fill in Blog wording below. Dates are shown in your language too, if your hosting supports it (most do); otherwise they stay in English.

The blog language is also written into every page, so search engines and AI tools like ChatGPT know which language your blog is in and show it to the right people.

Blog wording

Blog wording lists the small texts around your posts, about fifty of them, in six groups: Blog pages, Categories and tags, Posts, Sharing, Comments and Newsletter. Each field shows the text visitors see today in gray.

• Type into a field to use your own text instead, then press Save changes.
• Leave a field empty to keep the gray text.

This works for every language: translate the phrases for a language DonkeyCMS does not ship, or simply change a built-in phrase you would say differently, such as "Read more" to "Keep reading".

Your wording is kept separately for each language. If you change the blog language, a note asks you to save first; after saving, the fields show the new language's phrases.

Phrases with a number or a name in them

Some phrases have a code where a number or a name goes, for example Page %d of %d or Category: %s. Keep each code exactly as shown, in your own sentence: Pagina %d din %d. If a code is missing, added or changed, the field turns red and your text is not used until it is fixed. To write a percent sign in a phrase that has codes, type it twice: %%.

Your admin language

Click the language name with the flag at the top of the admin panel and pick one. It changes the admin panel for you only, and DonkeyCMS remembers it the next time you sign in. The admin panel comes in the same seven languages.

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