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A multilingual site

Enable multilingual mode, add languages, run the translation, correct a sentence, and choose the URL format.

A WebAcappella site is translated from the Languages section of your site: you add a language, the translation is done by AI, and you can then correct whatever you like, sentence by sentence. Each language has its own URLs, and your visitors get a language selector on the site.

Enabling multilingual mode and adding a language

  1. Turn on the Multilingual site switch. When it's off, the site is only rendered in its reference language, which is set on this same page.
  2. Click Add a language and choose from the fourteen languages available: French, English, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil and Portugal), Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Greek and Danish.
  3. Click Translate: the site is first scanned again to pick up new content, then only new or modified texts are translated into all target languages. The work is done in the background, with a progress indicator.

The reference language

The reference language is the language of your content: starter text, AI writing, the language declared to browsers. You choose it on this page, whether the site is in one language or several. Changing it does not translate what is already written. On a multilingual site, it becomes the source language for translations and URLs, so a change requires republishing.

Tracking coverage

The Coverage table counts, for each language, the entries that are translated, missing, outdated (the French text has changed since) and locked. Run Translate again after each series of changes: only what's new is sent to the translator, which uses AI credits. Published blog articles are translated along with the rest.

Correcting a translation

A language's Correct link opens the list of its texts, with filters (to correct, corrected, automatic). Edit a sentence and your correction is kept and protected from later translations. Revert to automatic discards it. A translation in progress suspends corrections until it finishes.

Not happy with a whole language? Redo a translation then Clear deletes the automatic translations for that language (your manual corrections are kept); then run Translate again.

URLs by language

  • Source at the root: the reference language at /, the others prefixed (/en/, /de/).
  • All prefixed: each language has its own prefix, and the root redirects to the reference language.
  • For each page, you can set a different URL for each language in the page properties in the editor (except for the home page). See Page Properties.
  • Changing the reference language of a multilingual site redirects its translations and its URLs.