Failed to make language.yml and titles.about function well

[UnicrystalCN]

I'm following the readme instructions and trying to create an about page for different languages. My goal here is to have different titles for "about" pages in different languages.

---

Let's say the structure is like this (unrelated files and folders are hidden):

-root -_i18n -en -about.md -zh -about.md en.yml zh.yml -about.md

---

In en.yml and zh.yml, I defined the variable like the following:

titles:
 -about: About

---

In /root/about.md

---
layout: page
title: titles.about
permalink: /about/
---

{% translate_file about.md %}

---

Then no matter what the front matter I define in /root/_i18n/en/about.md and /root/_i18n/zh/about.md, the front matter will directly show up as the normal content. And both the title of the pages (localhost:4000/about and localhost:4000/en/about) are "titles.about", which doesn't look into the values defined in en.yml and zh.yml.

How should I solve the problem? Should I change the layout setting, eg. use some syntax like page.{{title}} to replace page.title?

[shushugah]

I believe you would need {%t title%} because right now you're passing in the key, and you want the translated value of that key.

[RoiArthurB]

It's a pretty old issue, but I ran into it and find a solution so here you go :

First, you can't use variable (code between {{ .. }}) nor processed data (code between {% ... %}) in Front Matter. So by default you should not be able to use this plugin to translate Title and other stuff.

But, thanks to this post there's a solution \o/

Go on the post to see the solution, but to explain it, if you put variables or other in double quotes ("{{..}}"), Jekyll won't try to process it and will send that raw code in your page. Based on that kblife made a short plugin-filter (flatify) which post-process that code.

So, with all of that setup, I can use Front Matter that way :

---
layout: page
permalink: /about/
title: "{% t about.title %}"
description: "{% t about.subtitle %}"
background: '/img/bg-about.jpg'
---

Hope it will help someone ^^

[sithamet]

@RoiArthurB God bless you and your parents for giving you birth, and parents of your parents too