Don't require to have a home/index.md for multilingual sites

[eliocamp]

I'm building a Spanish-language site that will have only some of it's posts in English. I'm following the Academic documentation for multilingual (created content/en and content/es) support and I came up into errors if I didn't create a home/index.md file inside my content/en folder.

Building sites … ERROR 2020/04/16 14:16:04 Homepage not found or duplicate homepages detected for a localization! Add the home/ folder (especially /home/index.md) to each language's content folder. For example, your site should have a content/home/ folder containing index.md and your homepage sections, or for multi-language sites, content/en/home/ and content/zh/home/ etc. Refer to the 'Build Your Homepage' and 'Language' documentation at https://sourcethemes.com/academic/docs/ and the example homepage at https://github.com/gcushen/hugo-academic/tree/master/exampleSite/content/home/index.md .

I don't want to have an English homepage so copying the content/es/home to content/en/home solves the issue. However, the side effect is that now Hugo detects that the index is translated and shows the language picker in my homepage.

Would it be possible to enable multilingual support for some pages without having to also translate the homepage? (I apologise if I'm doing something wrong and this is already possible)

[gcushen]

Each Academic site you create requires a homepage.

Perhaps you might wish to try Hugo's approach to just translating pages - refer to Hugo docs and Hugo Forums.