It’s the holy grail of multi-language websites. If you’re running a French and English website, you want to present your French visitors with text in their language and your English visitors with text in their language. So, if you have built a real estate listing for your site, not only should labels (“Address”, “City”, “Number of Bedrooms”, etc.) be translated, but the actual data should be as well – like the description of the home.

Content localization is a tricky thing to implement. While DotNetNuke (DNN) provides an architecture for dynamically changing the static text in your website, there historically hasn’t been a way to localize the data in your site. XMod Pro’s 2.1 release adds a host of options that should make localization much easier. As of this writing, version 2.1 is in beta and available for download for XMod Pro users to download from the Clients section on the site.

Let’s start with the simple things:

Getting the Current Locale ID To render the locale ID of the currently...

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