Open Food Facts Contents

This page is about managing multilingual static pages.

CMS migration project

As of today in August 2024, static pages are stored in the openfoodfacts-web Github repository. Adding a new page, setting it up for translation, deploying it, is not an efficient process.

That is why, using WordPress CMS was the natural candidate, for the following reason:

• The UI is well known by a lot of people
• It is already used for the blog
• It has good support for translation and Crowdin integration

The ultimate goal is to be able to retrieve the translation of a page, just its content, and incorporate it into the site/app. The challenge is also to render the page as close as possible to how it looks in the WordPress editor.

A first experiment to integrate the content of a WordPress page directly into the site was conclusive. (PR #10596)

How to: replace an Openfoodfacts-web page by a Wordpress page

We plan to migrate the pages progressively. Here are the steps to follow :

1. Choose a page. Look at openfoodfacts-web Ex: who-we-are
2. Go to world.openfoodfacts.org/who-we-are, to see how the page is organized
3. Go to the WordPress admin panel in, Pages > Add New Page
4. Set the title. And build the page in the editor
   
5. Once finished, save and publish
6. The title is different from the original slug who-we-are, go back to the page menu then, on the page > Quick Edit, and change it.
   
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