On my site, I want to create a French-language section with pages aimed at a French audience. For SEO purposes, I intend to put all these French pages inside a /fr/ folder so all their URLs start with mydomain.com/fr/.

Can I implement a language switcher dropdown that will go to the equivalent page in the selected language? For example if the visitor is on the English book page and they switch to French they land on the French book page - which is a different page, not just a translation.

Anything else I should consider before I start structuring this new silo?

I can reply in more detail later, but this is a fairly common request.

You can use javascript to detect the browser language of the person viewing, so you could create a little HTML widget with just javascript in it to detect the browser's language, if it doesn't match the current language, display a modal/box on the page to offer them to go to the correct page.

On 6/3/2026 at 11:59 AM, Matt said:

I can reply in more detail later, but this is a fairly common request.

I'm implementing that new section now under a new /fr/ silo, so if you have any additional details I'd love to hear them.

Right now, I tried to move an existing page from domain.com/page to domain.com/fr/page by going to the page options and setting its parent folder to /fr/. However, this doesn’t automatically redirect the existing URL (domain.com/page) to the new one (domain.com/fr/page).

Is there a way to have the old URL redirect to the new one, or should I request a 301 redirect via a support ticket?

There wouldnt be a way in which to redirect from one to the other there

10 minutes ago, Marc said:

There wouldnt be a way in which to redirect from one to the other there

Surely you can set up permanent 301 redirects at the server level?

This is not something we would set up on our retail platform generally

I'm surprised, as in the past I was advised to create a ticket for this, and your team kindly helped set them up for me. I've just created a new ticket, so hopefully this can be handled that way. Thank you!

Edited August 19Aug 19 by David N.

I've replied to the ticket, if anyone could have a look it's quite urgent as the URLs I wanted to redirect are no longer resolving to anything and I'm worried about the impact on these pages' traffic and search rankings. Thanks!

Edited August 20Aug 20 by David N.

Someone will be in contact as soon as possible for you. I will flag internally

Thanks Marc!

All good now. Thanks team! 😀