Pocket Hugo
Pocket Hugo

A cover-driven theme for long-term personal writing

i18n MultiLanguage Configuration Reference

i18n MultiLanguage Configuration Reference

2026-03-05 Config 1 min read 182 words
Description A field-by-field guide to the i18n MultiLanguage Hugo configuration used by Pocket Hugo Theme.

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The Pocket Hugo theme supports multilingual usage. Two languages ​​are enabled by default; if you do not require them, you can simply remove the unwanted languages ​​within the hugo.toml file.

Set Preferred Language

Pocket Hugo theme natively supports over 10 language settings, including English, Chinese, Japanese, French, Spanish, Russian, German, Korean, Portuguese, Italian, and more. You can specify a preferred language in hugo.toml; this preferred language typically corresponds directly to the index.md file within the content directory.

languageCode = "en"
defaultContentLanguage = "en"

If you require a different site name and title for each language, you can configure them individually in hugo.toml.

[languages.en]
  languageName = "English"
  title = "Pocket Hugo"
  weight = 1

[languages.en.params.sidebar]
  subtitle = "A cover-driven theme for long-term personal writing"

Language Switching Settings

If you configure two languages, you can switch between them with a single click using a button located in the website header and below the in-text table of contents. If you configure three or more languages, a dropdown menu will be enabled by default in the website header.

  [params.languageSwitcher]
    headerSelectThreshold = 3