Multilingual D7 Progress

Drupal 7 promises a revolution in usability. It's a major new release and many developers are already building on it.

Basic support for multilingual content is now in Drupal core. However, for complete multilingual D7 sites, the core itself is not enough. Critical functionality it missing and comes from contributed modules.

This page explains which module does what and D7 readiness.

Function Description Handled by D7 status
Node translation Translating of node content Drupal core Implemented
Interface translation Translation of interface Drupal core Implemented
Content selection Determines what content gets displayed in menus, etc i18n core Being done now
Block translation Handle translating of blocks and having blocks per language i18nblocks Not implemented
Menu translation Handle translating of menus and having menus per language i18nmenu Not implemented
Taxonomy translation Handle translating of taxonomy and having taxonomy per language i18ntaxonomy Not implemented
Variable translation Handle translating of variables such as site name, site slogan, etc i18n core Implemention started
Translation Management Manage translation work flow of all content types translation managment Partial Implemention

Are your D7 sites multilingual-ready?

ICanLocalize is working full steam ahead to bring you a complete solution for multilingual Drupal sites.

Since many of the functionality has moved around, there will be changes, compared to Drupal 6.

We recommend that developers contact us, to make sure that the planned functionality for Drupal 7 serves your projects.