Building a Bilingual Editorial Workflow

The problem with bilingual CMS

Most content management systems treat multilingual publishing as an afterthought — a plugin bolted on, a separate tree of pages, or a third-party service. slynx treats it as a first-class feature.

How it works in slynx

Every post has a primary language tab and a secondary language tab. You write your English content, switch to the DE tab, and write the German version. Both are stored in the same database row — no duplication, no sync issues, no separate URL trees to manage.

On the public side, a language switcher appears automatically in the header and mobile menu as soon as a second language is enabled. Readers can switch at any point and the preference is remembered via a cookie.

Configuring the second language

DE is the default second language, but you can switch it to Hungarian, Russian, French, or any language code you need from Admin → Settings → Second Language. The interface labels and switcher update automatically.

If a post has no translation for a given language, slynx falls back to the primary language gracefully — readers never hit a blank page.