Website languages
Add up to five languages beside your main one, translate your pages, and let visitors switch from the header.
- website
- beta
- languages
- translation
A website starts in one language. You can add more, translate each page into them, and visitors switch from a small language menu in the header. Languages beside your main one are part of the website beta and need Creator or Growth. Your main language works on every plan.
Add a language
Open Website, Settings, then Languages
It shows your Main language and the languages you add. Your pages are written in the main language at their ordinary addresses.
Press Add a language
Pick one from the list: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese (and Brazilian Portuguese), Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Polish, Czech, Romanian, Hungarian, Greek, Turkish, Ukrainian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Hindi, Indonesian, Vietnamese or Thai. Languages that read right to left are not offered yet. You can add up to five beside the main one. Adding one puts nothing on your site until a page is translated and published.
Translate a page
Under Pages in each language, press Translate beside a page. That makes a draft copy of the page's sections, design and title for you to rewrite in the new language, and opens it. In the page editor, a language switch beside the page switcher does the same, and jumps between a page and its translations.
Publish it
Each translation is its own page, Live or Draft, and you publish it as you do any page. A translation shows Out of date when its main page was saved after the translation was last saved.
Where translations live
A translated page lives at the main page's address under the language's code: /fr/about, with the home page's translation at /fr. The code is the language's tag in lowercase, such as pt-br. Every translation is a page of its own, and counts toward a page limit like any page, drafts included. A language is refused if its code is already one of your community's own addresses, such as a page or list with that word, and a page, list or your blog cannot take a word a language uses.
A translation follows its main page: change the main page's address and both move, and a members only or password page is members only or behind the same password in every language.
Menu and footer words
Menu and footer words lets you word the labels in your menu, header and footer in each language. A page in the menu shows its translation's own title. A label left blank stays as you wrote it. The header's language menu names each language in its own words and marks each choice with its language for screen readers, and the site's own fixed words, such as the language label, follow the page's language.
Remove a language
Choose Remove on a language. Its translated pages leave your public site but are kept, and adding the language again brings them back as they were.
Common questions
Does Drry translate the page for me?
No. Translate makes a copy for you, or your assistant, to rewrite in the new language. Nothing is translated automatically.
What if I change my main language?
Your main page addresses stay as they are. Pick the main language in Languages.