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  • How to set up a different language?
  • How to set up Multiple Languages?
  • Ensure that you're ready to translate
  • Add new languages to your online store
  • Publish a language to your online store
  • Manage languages for markets
  • Unpublish a language in your online store
  • Delete a language in your online store
  1. Basic Configuration

Language

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Last updated 10 months ago

Please configure languages in your Shopify store by following article:

To add a language, follow the language settings link to the Store languages area of your store’s admin page. Refer to

How to set up a different language?

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:

  1. 1.From your Shopify admin, go to Settings > Languages.

  2. 2.In Published languages, click Change default beside the language that is your current default language.

  3. 3.Select a language from the menu.

  4. 4.Click Save.

Note

If you publish a language to your store without adding translations, then you'll receive a message prompting you to add translations. Languages that are published without adding additional translations will only show the provided translations for the theme and checkout, and the default language for all other content.

Steps:

From your Shopify admin, go to Online Store -> Themes -> Edit default theme content

Start translate the English texts within the red highlight tabs into your language or you can click Localize button to translate by the app:

How to set up Multiple Languages?

Before setting up Multiple Languages, please refer to these links for reference:

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

Steps:

Note

  1. From your Shopify admin, go to Settings > Languages.

  2. Click Add Language.

  3. Choose a language from the drop-down menu, then click Add.

  4. Select an active market to add your language to.

  5. Do either of the following:

  6. Click Preview to view different languages in your online store. You can preview both published and unpublished languages.

Note

Publish a language to your online store

Steps:

  1. From your Shopify admin, go to Settings > Languages.

  2. In Unpublished languages, click Publish beside the language that you want to make available to customers in your store.

  3. Click Save.

Note

If you publish a language to your store without adding translations, then you'll receive a message prompting you to add translations. Languages that are published without adding additional translations will only show the provided translations for the theme and checkout, and the default language for all other content.

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

  1. From your Shopify admin, go to Settings > Languages.

  2. Click More actions beside the language that you want to add to a market.

  3. Click Add to market.

  4. Click Done.

Remove a language from a market

  1. From your Shopify admin, go to Settings > Languages.

  2. Click More actions beside the language that you want to remove from a market.

  3. Click Remove.

  4. Click Done.

Unpublish a language in your online store

Steps:

  1. From your Shopify admin, go to Settings > Languages.

  2. In Published languages, click Unpublish beside the language that you want to make unavailable.

  3. Click Unpublish.

By unpublishing a language, you also remove that language from any markets that it was added to.

Delete 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:

  1. From your Shopify admin, go to Settings > Languages.

  2. In Unpublished languages, click the delete icon beside the unpublished language that you want to remove from your store.

  3. Click Delete.

By deleting a language, you also remove that language from any markets that it was added to.

Before you begin, make sure your store meets the .

If you need to create a new active market, then follow the steps to .

Use the to into Shopify.

Visit the and install a translation app to your store. Follow the steps in the app to translate your online store's content and publish new languages.

Adding a language only adds translations in to supported themes and checkouts. If you want to add translations to other store content, then you need to import translations or use an app.

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, so for any of your unpublished languages.

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