# Translate sidebar documentation links

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/translate-sidebar-documentation-links/379540
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** doc-categories, dynaloc, content-localization
**Created:** [August 21, 2025, 3:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/translate-sidebar-documentation-links/379540 "2025-08-21T03:33:03Z")
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### Author: ![nat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/nat/32/235063_2.png) [@nat](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nat)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2025, 3:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/translate-sidebar-documentation-links/379540/1 "2025-08-21T03:33:03Z")

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> [@Content Localization - Manual and Automatic with Discourse AI](https://meta.discourse.org/t/content-localization-manual-and-automatic-with-discourse-ai/370969/15):
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> Does the content localization work with Documentation Categories? It seems to me that sidebar content is not getting translated even though I localize the index topic.

Since category names, topic titles, and posts have been translated, ideally they should also be reflected in the sidebar section for documentation.

### #Documentation sidebar

 ![Documentation sidebar untranslated on main category](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/8/5/6/8565fb6d74b7eb13b92a8621e0b560c2a00fc349.jpeg)

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One unknown difficulty here is that the sidebar text does not match the category name or topic titles.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/a/2/a/a2a065e88e93e6ac187c13575c091c387f988c78.jpeg)

The links between “sidebar item” ↔ “link to topic” are defined in the category’s index:

- [Using Discourse Index](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-discourse-index/308031)

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/e/e/6/ee60a0ad134542d0c76aada8afcf96bbd83d3f7e.jpeg)

So I suspect there may be some parsing going on in the index – looks non-trivial for now, but we’ll see!

Link to repo: [GitHub - discourse/discourse-doc-categories · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-doc-categories)

As usual, please vote for the feature accordingly, as it can help our team with decision making on priorities.

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