A fast, painless internationalization plugin for Jekyll blogs, enabling multilingual content with fallback support and SEO tools.
Polyglot is a Jekyll plugin that adds comprehensive internationalization support to static websites. It enables developers to create multilingual blogs by managing language-specific content, automatically handling URL routing, and providing SEO tools for better visibility across different languages. The plugin solves the problem of Jekyll's lack of native multi-language capabilities.
Jekyll users building multilingual blogs or documentation sites who need a straightforward way to manage content in multiple languages without complex infrastructure.
Developers choose Polyglot for its ease of setup, automatic URL handling, and parallel build performance. Unlike other i18n plugins, it offers robust fallback support and SEO optimization out of the box with minimal configuration.
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Corrects relative and absolute links to keep visitors on the correct language version, as shown in the README where French links like '/menu/' become '/fr/menu/' automatically.
Builds all language versions simultaneously with machine-aware processes, allowing large multilingual sites to scale without performance bottlenecks.
Serves default language content when translations are missing while maintaining relativized links, ensuring no broken pages across language sites.
Provides I18n_Headers and automatic sitemap generation tailored for multilingual SEO, with documented recipes for search engine optimization.
Supports language-specific data files and collection localization, enabling shared layouts with localized content via site.data[lang].
Parallel builds must be disabled on Windows, and Jekyll 4.0 users need to disable CSS sourcemaps due to compatibility issues, adding setup complexity.
Overwrites the core Jekyll::Site.process method, which can clash with other plugins that modify this process, requiring careful integration.
Lacks a built-in translation interface; developers must manually create and manage separate files for each language, increasing the risk of errors.