How to make a multilanguage site in Drupal 7

In order to make a site multilingual please follow this procedure

1. Install these modules

2. Enable these modules at the module administration panel

  • Content translation
  • Locale
  • Localization update
  • All checkboxes at the "Multilingual - Internationalization" sector
  • All checkboxes at the "Variable" sector

3. Add a new language at the Regional and Language sector within the configuration panel

  • Add the languages that you need

4. Within the language inside Detection and Selection configure the URL and User detection option

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