Translating your website

Posts, products and settings

For posts, products, photo albums, vacancies, tags, forms and your settings, the languages are shown directly below each other. In front of each text field you see a language badge (NL, EN, DE …). If a translation is still empty, the badge is grey and you see the base-language text in light grey in the field: that is also what appears on your website.

1. First fill in the base language (the top field).
2. Fill in the other languages below it. Press Tab to go straight to the next field.
3. For the Description (formatted text), choose the language with the tabs above it. A tab with an open circle has not been filled in yet. Press Tab at the end of a text box to go to the next language.
4. Save (for a post or product: Save draft) and then click Publish at the top right. All languages are saved in one go.

If a product has a list such as Specifications, there are also language tabs at the top: use them to translate the lines of that list.

You only need to fill in required fields in the base language. Photos, prices and dates apply to all languages.

Automatic translation (products)

For all collections (posts, events, products, photo albums, sponsors, tags and so on), you only need to fill in the base language. When you click Save draft, the empty languages are translated automatically. Want to see the result first? Click Translate now (next to Save draft): the other languages are filled in straight away, and Save draft saves them. The colour of the language badge (and the label next to it) shows the status of a language:

• Light blue, Automatic: translated automatically. If you later change the base language, this language is translated again when you save.
• Light purple, Own text: you edited the translation yourself. It stays, even if the base language changes. Use the circular arrow to set it back to automatic: you first see your own text and the new translation side by side.
• Amber, Base language changed: your own text, but the base language has changed since. Choose Still correct or set it back to automatic.
• Grey with a padlock, Fixed name: the name of a product is not translated.

Words that must never be translated, such as your company name or a brand, go under Settings → Translation in Never translate. Product and sponsor names are added there automatically. You can also add one quickly: select the word in the base language and click Do not translate. That is also where you choose whether translations are formal or informal, and where you can switch off automatic translation.

Translations that existed before automatic translation was introduced count as your own text: they are not overwritten.

Pages

Open a page via Pages and choose the language in the bar at the top right. Whatever you change then applies only to that language. A part of the page that you haven't filled in for a language shows the design's default text in that language.

Pages are not translated automatically: you fill in each language yourself. If you click in a text you changed earlier, the Original text button appears above it. After Save, the text from the design is back, only in that language.

You'll find the name of a page and the texts for Google under the cog (Page settings), on the General and Findability tabs. All languages are shown there one below the other. Fill in the base language and click Translate now: the empty languages are filled in with the translation. Anything you filled in yourself stays as it is; empty a box to have it translated again. Then click Save.

Want to add a new language to your website? Windkracht will arrange it for you. Get in touch.