I would highly recommend kicking the tires on mFusion. Perhaps it hasn't shown up on many radars but I suspect that's going to change.
I spent the better part of a month going through the laundry list of CMS solutions at the very handy OpenSourceCMS and was having trouble finding a clear solution. Almost by accident, I found mFusion after testing PHP-Fusion 6 which it is based on.
IMHO, mFusion seems tight and efficient at what it does and is forgiving to both the first time CMS admin *cough* as well as newbie content creators accustomed to doing things offline. You can keep only the locales you will need for content and then create things separately from there. A single drop down panel controls which language content is created in. The same appears for users and their view while on the site.
On the flip side, it does seem like a 'two-tree' solution in that you are creating the same content 'X' number of times in each language. A summary panel is provided that can help audit what has been created and in which language. I'm still testing an installation for English and Russian users but so far it has been the ideal, customizable solution for my needs.
PHP-Fusion gets a nod for the real muscle here, but the modifications found in mFusion are a must try when shopping for a multilingual CMS.
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I would highly recommend kicking the tires on mFusion. Perhaps it hasn't shown up on many radars but I suspect that's going to change.
I spent the better part of a month going through the laundry list of CMS solutions at the very handy OpenSourceCMS and was having trouble finding a clear solution. Almost by accident, I found mFusion after testing PHP-Fusion 6 which it is based on.
IMHO, mFusion seems tight and efficient at what it does and is forgiving to both the first time CMS admin *cough* as well as newbie content creators accustomed to doing things offline. You can keep only the locales you will need for content and then create things separately from there. A single drop down panel controls which language content is created in. The same appears for users and their view while on the site.
On the flip side, it does seem like a 'two-tree' solution in that you are creating the same content 'X' number of times in each language. A summary panel is provided that can help audit what has been created and in which language. I'm still testing an installation for English and Russian users but so far it has been the ideal, customizable solution for my needs.
PHP-Fusion gets a nod for the real muscle here, but the modifications found in mFusion are a must try when shopping for a multilingual CMS.