Setting a default site language

Updated December 01, 2021 13:51

If you're looking to reach a specific audience and you are looking to build a website in a language other than English, the Site Language feature allows you to translate certain elements into your desired language.

Select your site language and the text on some widgets will be translated into your target language automatically.

Kindly note, the widget text has been pre-translated and cannot be customized. You can see the list of widgets and texts affected by this feature further down in this article.

You can set your default site language by following these instructions:

Click on Settings from the left-hand menu within your Website Editor
Click on Site Language
Select a language. The languages offered include:
- Arabic
- Catalan
- Chinese (Simplified)
- Chinese (Traditional)
- Danish
- Dutch
- English
- English (UK)
- Finnish
- French
- German
- Greek
- Hebrew
- Icelandic
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Korean
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Norwegian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Romanian
- Russian
- Spanish (LATAM)
- Spanish (Spain)
- Swedish
- Turkish
- Vietnamese

Check the widgets that are affected by this feature here:

Widget name	Text in the widget which is 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 this 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
Countdown	All default text

This feature only translates the texts listed above. Please note that these texts cannot be edited.

Note: This feature is different from the Multi-Language feature, which translates all text on the website using Google Translate.

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