Answers.Body: <p>The best solution is to use sections / entries for ALL of your templates. This not only allows to automatically route each local's page URL to a single template, it also makes it possible to set local specific slugs for each entry. You might not care for translated URLs, but Google does.</p>
  
  <p>So what I recommend is to restructure your setup a bit, add a bunch of singles or even better, a structure named "pages", and set the path to your templates in the section settings.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: Do you mean i cant use a single template for locales if I am extending from a base? Section is specifying only one template. "help" is section name/handle. Template is "help/_entry"
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Answers.Text: Not sure I can follow your first sentence, what do you mean with *"extending from a base"*.
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Answers.Text: *"Section is specifying only one template"* – that's how it should work. You point all of this section's entry requests (any locale !!) to that template, isn't this what you're after? All locales, one template?
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Body: <p>How can I avoid local specific templates? I'd like just to use one template for all languages.</p>
  
  <p>My current template structure is extending layouts/_base, and layout/_site [similar to happylager demo] and I have a template called 'help' but i dont want to set 'fr/help', 'es/help'</p>
  
Tags: <localization><templating>
Title: Single template for multiple locales
ThreadText: # Single template for multiple locales
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2015-10-08)
  
  How can I avoid local specific templates? I'd like just to use one template for all languages.
  
  My current template structure is extending layouts/\_base, and layout/\_site [similar to happylager demo] and I have a template called 'help' but i dont want to set 'fr/help', 'es/help'
  
  **Tags:** localization, templating
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2015-10-09. Score: 2 | Accepted answer
  
  The best solution is to use sections / entries for ALL of your templates. This not only allows to automatically route each local's page URL to a single template, it also makes it possible to set local specific slugs for each entry. You might not care for translated URLs, but Google does.
  
  So what I recommend is to restructure your setup a bit, add a bunch of singles or even better, a structure named "pages", and set the path to your templates in the section settings.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: Do you mean i cant use a single template for locales if I am extending from a base? Section is specifying only one template. "help" is section name/handle. Template is "help/_entry"  
  > **username_1**: Not sure I can follow your first sentence, what do you mean with *"extending from a base"*.  
  > **username_1**: *"Section is specifying only one template"* – that's how it should work. You point all of this section's entry requests (any locale !!) to that template, isn't this what you're after? All locales, one template?  
  
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