Magento – Translate Static block content

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I have a multilingual site and for display language-specific block i have to create a different static block for each language-specific store.

Is there any methods or way available to translate static block content.

I am displaying a static block from cms pages.

I have check this thread how to create multilingual static block

Best Answer

Here is how I usually do it.
Create a block with this content:

{{block type="core/template" template="custom/template/path.phtml"}}

Then I create the template customer/template/path.phtml and inside it I'm able to use: $this->__('Text') or Mage::helper('checkout')->__('Text').

If you don't like this approach, You can override Mage_Cms_Model_Template_Filter (that extends Mage_Core_Model_Email_Template_Filter) and add your translate directive similar to Mage_Core_Model_Email_Template_Filter::blockDirective() or Mage_Core_Model_Email_Template_Filter::skinDIrective().

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Magento CMS – Linking Customer/Account URL in Static Block

The way you are doing it is correct.
The {{store}} directive should know how to generate the correct link even if you change the customer module route name (that is currently customer). If you change it to client (see here how) <a href="{{store url='customer/account'}}">My Account</a> will still generate the correct url.
For CMS pages you should use the widget approach so it won't be important if the page changes.

{{widget type="cms/widget_page_link" anchor_text="some text here" title="some title here" template="cms/widget/link/link_block.phtml" page_id="52"}}

Magento 1.9 – Update CMS Static Block Content Programmatically

Use this

Load by block id:

Mage::getModel('cms/block')->load($id)
  ->setData('content', 'SET CONTENT HERE')
  ->save();

Load By identifier:

Mage::getModel('cms/block')
  ->getCollection()
  ->addFieldToFilter('identifier', 'block_identifier')
  ->load()
  ->setData('content', 'Example content')
  ->save();

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