I’m using the latest version of Sitely Pro and have built a bilingual website (German/English) in a single Sitely project. The German and English pages are organized in separate folders.
I’ve run into an issue with the Privacy/Cookie Banner:
The automatically generated Privacy Policy page was only created for the German version, not for the English one.
The built-in cookie banner also seems to support only one banner text and one Privacy Policy link.
How do you handle this on multilingual websites?
Do you use a bilingual banner, link to a single Privacy Policy, or is there a way to make the banner point to the correct Privacy Policy depending on the language?
I’d really like to keep using Sitely’s built-in cookie banner and avoid an external consent solution if possible.
Hi @Steffi, yeah I’m afraid there isn’t a fix for this, other than a multilingual banner. The other way to approach it is to have separate project files per language, so in your case one for english and one for german. Each file would need to be published in a separate folder, to ensure there isn’t a conflict between the assets used (images etc). You could then have a different privacy (and search results, and login) pages in each. We are aware of this and it’s a pain point we need to solve.
The Cookie Banner drives me crazy I think a bilingual cookie banner would be the best solution.
However, whenever I enable multiple languages in the language settings, I run into problems publishing the website to the test server. How exactly should I set this up and publish it correctly on the testserver?
I think a bilingual cookie banner would be the best solution.