Documentation / Translating
SwiftLing › Translations lists everything visitors read, kind by kind. Each screen is a list; press Translate on a row to open the translation editor.
| Screen | What it lists |
|---|---|
| Pages & posts | Pages, posts, products and other content types |
| Categories & tags | Categories, tags, product attributes and other lists of terms |
| Comments | Comments and reviews visitors wrote |
| Forms | Forms of supported form plugins |
| Menus | Menus built under Appearance › Menus |
| Templates | The header, the footer and the texts around every page |
| Themes & plugins | Texts of your theme and plugins |
The five states
Each row shows, for every language, how far its translation has come:
| State | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Reviewed | Someone checked it. |
| Machine translated | A service translated it, nobody has read it yet. |
| Original changed since translation | The original text changed after it was translated. |
| Partly translated | Some texts of it are still empty. |
| Not translated | Visitors read the original. |
A sixth appears for content that keeps the original: shown as it is, untranslated, on purpose.
Menu and toolbar shortcuts
- On the site, the Edit translation link in the toolbar opens the editor for the page you are looking at.
- Lists of pages in WordPress itself have a Translations column.
- A page’s own edit screen has a small box with the state of each language.
Who may translate
Administrators, and everyone you allow. With SwiftLing Pro there is a Translator role: people who translate without managing the site.