Add language translations using the Translate & Adapt app

With theTranslate & Adapt app, you can add translations to your store for products, collections, blog posts, policies, and pages.

Install the app

When youadd a new languageto your store, the Translate & Adapt app is installed automatically.

If you already have languages published to your store and you want to install the app, then in yourStore languagessettings, clickInstall Shopify Translate & Adapt.

Manually translate content

You can access the translation editor directly in your Shopify admin from the Translate & Adapt app, or from any content page that you want to translate.

Manually translate content in the Translate & Adapt app

1. From your Shopify admin, go toApps.
2. ClickTranslate & Adapt.
3. Select the language that you want to translate.
4. Select the resource that you want to translate.
5. Enter your translated content into the appropriate field.
6. ClickSave.

Manually translate content from a content page

1. 从你Shopify管理,内容页that you want to translate. For example, to add translations for a product, go to the product page.
2. ClickMore actions>Localize.

1. Optional: If you have multiple languages, then from the drop-down menu, select the language that you're providing translations for.
2. 输入翻译成适当的字段.
3. ClickSave.

Localize images and other files

When translating a resource that includes images, you can add a different version of the image file for different languages.

Steps:

1. Make sure that you have uploaded a new version of the file inContent>Files. Learn aboutmanaging file uploads.
2. From your Shopify admin, go to欧宝体育官网入口首页.
3. In the section for your current theme, clickCustomize.
4. In the theme editor, select an image.
5. ClickLocalizein the lower left corner. This will open the Translate & Adapt translation editor.
6. Select the language that you want to translate to.
7. In the row where the file is displayed, clickChange.
8. Select the image that you want to translate from your uploaded files.
9. ClickClose.
10. ClickSave.

You can also localize other files, such as videos or PDFs, by usingmetafields. After you add a file metafield to your resource, it will show up in the translation editor.

Automatically translate content

You can use the Translate & Adapt app to automatically translate content. Automatic translations are provided by the Google Cloud Translation API. Before you publish translations to your storefront, you should review them for accuracy.

Automatically translate content for a language

If you add automatic translations, then you need to activate them for each individual language that you want to translate. After you automatically translate a language, the translations will take a few minutes to display on your storefront.

Steps:

1. From your Shopify admin, go toApps.
2. ClickTranslate & Adapt.
3. Select the language that you want to translate.
4. ClickAuto-translate.
5. ClickTranslate.

Auto-translations will be added for:

• Content that has not been translated yet
• Auto-translated content that is out of sync

Automatic translations are out of sync when the source language has been updated after running automatic translation. When you clickAuto-translateon your content, empty and outdated content will be translated. This willnotchange any translations that you have added, or edited, manually.

New automatic translations will not be added unless you clickAuto-translate.

If new content is added (e.g. a new product has been added), you will need to come back to the app and clickAuto-translateagain to add the translations to the new content, in each language.

Automatically translate content for a single resource

If you want to automatically translate only a specific part of your content, then you can initiate an automatic translation for a single resource. After you automatically translate a single resource, the translations will take a few minutes to display on your storefront.

Steps:

1. From your Shopify admin, go toApps.
2. ClickTranslate & Adapt.
3. Select the localized content that you want to translate.
4. ClickAuto-translate.
5. ClickSave.

Create custom content for a market

Custom content can be created to help adapt to the regional and cultural aspects in each market.

Some examples of how custom content can be used include the following:

• Support regional spelling or preferred terms in a market. For example, creating aSweatersmenu title for a United States market, and aJumpersmenu title for a United Kingdom market.
• Display promotional content based on the customer's market. For example, creating a custom Thanksgiving announcement bar in October for Canadian customers.
• Use metafields to display a fixed money value for a given market. For example, creating a display in Canadian dollars that shows how much you have contributed to charities in your Canadian market.

Steps:

1. 从你Shopify管理,内容页that you want to customize for a market. For example, to add custom content for a product page, open the product page.
2. ClickMore actions>Localize.
3. Select the market that you'd like to display customized content for from the drop-down list.
4. Optional: Select the language that you'd like to display customized content for from the drop-down list.
5. Enter your customized content into the appropriate field.
6. ClickSave.

Third-party app compatibility

The Translate & Adapt app is compatible with otherthird-party translation appsthat use the Translations API. Content created with these apps will be in the Translate & Adapt app, and vice versa.

Translate & Adapt app limitations

The following types of content can't be translated with the Translate & Adapt app:

• Third-party app content that isn't hosted as a Shopifytranslatable resource typeorstorefront locale file.
• Tags and URLs
• Product images

Unsupported languages

The following languages can't be translated with the Translate & Adapt app:

• Arabic
• Bengali
• Cebuano
• Corsican
• Frisian
• Haitian Creole
• Hawaiian
• Hebrew
• Hmong
• Latin
• Nyanja (Chichewa)
• Odia (Oriya)
• Samoan
• Scots Gaelic
• Sesotho
• Tagalog (Filipino)

Language selectors

Allow customers to choose their preferred language by enabling language selectors in your theme. If you are using a free theme from Shopify, language selectors are built in. Steps:

• From your Shopify admin, go to欧宝体育官网入口首页>Themes.
• Find the theme that you want to edit, and then clickCustomize.
• Search your theme settings forEnable language selector. It could be in thetheme settings, footer or header depending on your theme and the theme developer.

If you’re not using a free theme from Shopify, view the support documentation for your theme or contact the theme developer. You can use theGeolocation appto add language and country selectors to any theme. Language selectors can also bebuilt for a theme.

Please note that language selectors aren't a part of the Translate & Adapt app.