Managing languages
Ensure that you're ready to translate
You must provide the translations when adding languages to your store. Before you add a new language, ensure that you have your translations ready, or that you have a translation app installed and have assigned the language to a market.
Add new languages to your online store
Before you begin, make sure your store meets therequirements for selling in multiple languages.
Steps:
From your Shopify admin, go toSettings>Languages.
ClickAdd Language.
Choose a language from the drop-down menu, then clickAdd.
Select an active market to add your language to.
Do either of the following:
- Use theTranslate & Adapt apptoimport your translated contentinto Shopify.
- Visit theShopify App Storeand install a translation app to your store. Follow the steps in the app to translate your online store's content and publish new languages.
ClickPreviewto view different languages in your online store. You can preview both published and unpublished languages.
Publish a language to your online store
Steps:
From your Shopify admin, go toSettings>Languages.
In未发表的语言, clickPublishbeside the language that you want to make available to customers in your store.
ClickSave.
Manage languages for markets
By default, each new market that you create uses your store's default language.
You need to assign newly published languages to a market before they become visible to visitors on your online store.
Add a language to a market
From your Shopify admin, go toSettings>Languages.
ClickMore actionsbeside the language that you want to add to a market.
ClickAdd to market.
ClickDone.
Remove a language from a market
From your Shopify admin, go toSettings>Languages.
ClickMore actionsbeside the language that you want to remove from a market.
ClickRemove.
ClickDone.
Unpublish a language in your online store
You can also unpublish a language, which hides the language from customers. Any links to the store in that particular language result in a 404 “Page not found” error, socreate redirectsfor any of your unpublished languages.
Steps:
From your Shopify admin, go toSettings>Languages.
InPublished languages, clickUnpublishbeside the language that you want to make unavailable.
ClickUnpublish.
By unpublishing a language, you also remove that language from any markets that it was added to.
删除a language in your online store
If you're confident that you don't need translations in that language, then you can also delete the language. Deleting a language also deletes all translations of that language permanently. If a language is re-enabled in the future, then the translations need to be added again.
Steps:
From your Shopify admin, go toSettings>Languages.
In未发表的语言,单击delete icon beside the unpublished language that you want to remove from your store.
Click删除.
By deleting a language, you also remove that language from any markets that it was added to.
Change the default language of your online store
You can change the default language of your store. Your default store language is used in your Shopify admin and in your store's checkout and theme.
Steps:
From your Shopify admin, go toSettings>Languages.
InPublished languages, clickChange default旁边的语言是你的咕咕叫ent default language.
Select a language from the menu.
ClickSave.