Open Food Facts Contents

This page is about managing multilingual static pages.

CMS migration project

As of today 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 (see #7983), 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 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 create a new content page

Create the page in English

1. Go to the WordPress admin panel in, Posts > Add New Posts. (and not new Page !)
2. Set the title. And build the page in the editor.
   
3. Once finished, save and publish.
4. Pay special attention to page slug (the way it appears in the URL). If the title is different from the wanted slug (eg who-we-are), go back to the page menu then, on the posts > Quick Edit, and change it.
5. Also, set the Open Food Facts flavor Tag to make it available for it. For instance by using the tag 'off' only, the page won't be visible on Open Product Facts.
   
6. Now, if you are an admin you can go to world.openfoodfacts.org/content/refresh and see the page listed.
   

Send it to translation

We use Crowdin for translations. This enables fast collaborative translations of the content.

• Go in WPML, Translation Management menu
• Choose the post to send to translation
• Choose assign to a translator (Crowdin will be the translator)
• Go in the Translation basket menu
• Click on send to translation
• It may take some time for the action to finish

Link you page

Think if your page should be linked from somewhere on the website.

If it's from another post, just modify the corresponding post and send it to translation again.

If it's on another part of the website, you must ask a developper of openfoodfacts-server.

Syncing translation

To be done

1. Change the slug of the translated page (for example who-we-are --> qui-sommes-nous). Go to the page menu and select the language (here French), then edit then Quick Edit the page as in step 4).

1. Then again refresh available pages on openfoodfacts. Now you can see the translation if you go to fr.openfoodfacts.org/content or world.openfoodfacts.org/content/fr
2. if your page replace an old content from openfoodfacts-web, don't forget to add a redirect in openfoodfacts-web (see below)

How to: replace an Openfoodfacts-web page by a Wordpress page (Not yet in production)

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

1. Choose a page to work on. Look at openfoodfacts-web, for example: who-we-are.
2. Go to the page is organized, but you might as well decide to re-create it differently
3. create a new content page (see above) and send it to translation, don't forget to also change links from the old page to the new page
4. An important step: we want to redirect the old urls (the content of openfoodfacts-web) to make them invisible and for SEO purpose. In the respective lang folder in openfoodfacts-web, add a file with a name corresponding to the page you want to redirect, ending in .redirect and put the redirection inside. Like this, [name of the text] [uri] : E.g. in /lang/en/texts/en.redirect :

who-we-are /content/en/who-we-are contribute /content/en/contribute

you will have to do the same for each translations as they arrive.