How to access the translated version of a page that has a translated slug

[carlosnasillo]

Typically with common paths on Django the following works fine:

translation.activate('en')
urls.translate_url("https://example.com/blog/", "en")
>> https://example.com/blog/
urls.translate_url("blog", "es")
>> https://example.com/es/blog/

But what if we translated the slug? for example of a blog post /page-1/ to be in es = /pagina-1/

Desired output

>> https://example.com/blog/page-1
>> https://example.com/es/blog/pagina-1

If I try the above again with a translated slug URL, I get https://example.com/blog/page-1 obviously Django is not able to resolve it so defaults to base language. Is there a different way in which I should be doing it?

Thanks again for all the help, new to wagtail-localize, wagtail and i18n - so all a bit overwhelming ATM.

[kaedroho]

Hey @carlosnasillo

You can't use Django's translate_url for this because it's unaware of Wagtail's own routing.

Instead, you need to get the translated page instance and access its .url attribute. Wagtail will make sure the URL has the correct language prefix.

For example:

from wagtail.core.models import Locale


spanish = Locale.objects.get(language_code='es')
spanish_blog_page = english_blog_page.get_translation(spanish)

if spanish_blog_page.live:
    return spanish_blog_page.url

[carlosnasillo]

Thank you very much the guidance @kaedroho, super appreciated!