The TRANSLATOR Plugin is an extension for Grav CMS.

Installing the Mde plugin can be done in one of three ways: The GPM (Grav Package Manager) installation method lets you quickly install the plugin with a simple terminal command, the manual method lets you do so via a zip file, and the admin method lets you do so via the Admin Plugin.

To install the plugin via the GPM, through your system's terminal (also called the command line), navigate to the root of your Grav-installation, and enter:

bin/gpm install translator

This will install the Mde plugin into your /user/plugins directory within Grav. Its files can be found under /your/site/grav/user/plugins/translator.

To install the plugin manually, download the zip-version of this repository and unzip it under /your/site/grav/user/plugins. Then rename the folder to mde. You can find these files on GitHub or via GetGrav.org.

You should now have all the plugin files under

/your/site/grav/user/plugins/translator

NOTE: This plugin requires the Email Plugin for Grav if you are not using the Slack notifications.

If you use the Admin Plugin, you can install the plugin directly by browsing the Plugins-menu and clicking on the Add button.

Before configuring this plugin, you should copy the user/plugins/translator/translator.yaml to user/config/plugins/translator.yaml and only edit that copy.

Here is the default configuration and an explanation of available options:

enabled: true
base_route: '/translator'                   # The plugin will operate under this route for all functionality.
fields:                                     # Which fields the plugin allows for translation, every other field is ignored
  - text
  - textarea
  - editor
  - ckeditor
  - markdown
slack:
  enabled: false                            # Enable slack notifications
  webhook: ''                               # The webhook URL - generate your own via slack developer app
  channel: '#general'                       # The channel in which to send the message
style:
  color: '#39CCCC'                          # Teal
  logo:
    user/plugins/translator/images/grav-logo.png:
      name: grav-logo.png
      type: image/png
      size: 14215
      path: user/plugins/translator/images/grav-logo.png
g_translate:
  type: 'json'
  key: 'user-data://mykeyfile.json'         # the location for the json key. supports streams
  lang_remap:                               # the lang remap utility
    pt-BR: pt
    pt-br: pt
    pt-PT: pt
    pt-pt: pt
    br: pt
    my: ms

The plugin has a built in support for google translator. This enables you to get quick translations done which can then later be refined. This can help save money where you only need to hire translators to fix the translations rather than complete them from scratch.

Google Translate Language List

The document above shows the list of languages supported by Google. The remap lets you use any language code your grav site and make it match to a google code.TRANSLATOR

Example: "pt-PT" as a language code will not work for google. so we remap it by doing

g_translate:
  lang_remap:
    pt-PT: pt

Note that if you use the Admin Plugin, a file with your configuration named translator.yaml will be saved in the user/config/plugins/-folder once the configuration is saved in the Admin.

The plugin has a few simple requirements.

The plugin uses blueprints to determine which fields should appear or not in the translation area. By default, all text, textarea, editor, fields will automatically be enabled. However, you can enable or disable specific types by adding a translator: true or translator: false key to a field. For example:

Lets say we have the following field:

header.id:
    type: text
    label: My Personal ID

This is a field that we dont want to allow for translation, so we can make the plugin skip this field by adding translator: false.

header.id:
    type: text
    label: My Personal ID
    translator: false

Example File: user/accounts/username.yaml

access:
  site:
    translator: 'true'

Any admin with super: true access will also be able to enter the translators area. However, before you can edit any language, you must first tell the plugin which language each user is allowed to translate. This can be done by adding the following:

Example File: user/accounts/username.yaml

translator:
  - de
  - en
  - es
  - sv

You can add as many languages as you want (as long as you have already enabled them in your multi-lang site).

You may also enable ALL enabled languages to be given access by simply adding: - super.

Example File: user/accounts/admin.yaml

translator:
  - super

You are now ready to start translating!

Go to SLACK API and sign in your with Slack account. Make sure you are on the correct workspace too!

Hit the Create New App button - Fill in the details, you can pick any name you wish.

Now you will need to enable 2 features: Enable Incoming Webhooks and Interactive Components

1. Click Add New Webhook to Workspace button at the bottom of the page. Select the channel you wish to send messages to. Your end result should be something like this:

Now copy the webhook url and the channel to the plugin configurations as shown above:

File: user/configs/plugins/translator.yaml

slack:
  enabled: true
  webhook: 'https://hooks.slack.com/services/...'
  channel: '#test'

1. Click Interactive Components on the sidebar menu and turn Interactivity to on

2. Add the Request URL as follows:

https://yourwebsite.com/translator/api/slackendpoint

NOTE: Replace yourwebsite.com with the domain you are using the plugin on, and replace the /translator ONLY if you have modified the default base_route variable

Now you can enable Slack notifications in your plugin for approving and denying translator submitted pages.

Enjoy