1. Overview
  2. Guide
  3. Considerations
  4. Resources

Overview

If you're building a website in a language other than English, the Site Language feature allows you to translate certain elements into your target language. Simply select your target language and the built-in text on several widgets will be translated into your target language automatically. The widget text has been pre-translated and cannot be customized.
 
This feature should not be mistaken for the Multi-Language feature, which translates all text on the website using Google Translate. When Multi-Language is enabled, the default site language is set automatically and changes to the default language must be set via the Multi-Language feature. 

Guide

Click Settings in the left menu.

Click Site Language.

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Select a language. The languages offered include:

Dutch Italian
English Japanese
English (UK) Portuguese
French Spanish (LATAM)
German Spanish (Spain) 
Indonesian Turkish


Text in the following widgets are affected by this feature:

Widget

 Text translated by Site Language Feature

Blog
  • By (author)
  • Post date (the date itself)
  • Older posts
  • Newer posts
  • Comments / Comment
  • Search result for …
  • No results found for ...

RSS feed
  • Read more
  • More posts

Photo gallery
  • View more
  • View less
  • Tooltips inside of images (arrows, close, ...)

Coupon
  • Print coupon
  • Expired

Multi-location
  • Map language / Address language
  • See all locations

Business hours
  • Days and dates structure

Map
  • Map language

Cookie notification
  • We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you would like to change your preferences you may do so by following the instructions here.

PayPal button
  • Images (Buy and Donate)

Yelp
  • Read more on Yelp.com

Facebook comments
  • All default text

Facebook like
  • All default text

Disqus
  • All default text
  • We were unable to load Disqus. If you are a moderator, please see our troubleshooting guide.

Contact form
  • Captcha UI (I’m a robot)

Password protected pages
  • This page is password-protected
  • Enter the password to view this page

Twitter
  • All default text

404 page
  •  404 page text

Considerations

  • The Site Language feature is not the same as the Multi-Language feature, which translates all text on a site using Google Translate. If Multi-Language is already activated, the Site Language tab will be inactive.
  • This feature only translates the texts listed above. These texts cannot be edited.
  • Some widgets let you choose a widget language in the Content Editor (e.g Business Hours, Cookie Notifications). If you selected a language for the widgets, they will remain in the selected language until you change the Site Language.

Resources

For more information about Multi-Language sites, please read Make a Multi-Language Site.