Correcting a translation on the page

Editing in place

Open a translated page while signed in and switch the editor on. The page appears on the right, with its text listed on the left. Click a sentence in either view to select it in both. Edit the translation and save to update the page.

You can check the wording in context, with the page layout and surrounding text in view. There is no need to search the site’s full list of strings. Find the sentence you want to change on the page and select it.

Only what is on this page

The list shows the page’s text, with each original beside its translation and a flag for each language. The filters are All, Untranslated, To check, Changed and Approved. Changed shows translations whose original has changed since. Each filter shows a count; filters with no matches are hidden.

Translate whole page becomes Translate N missing once some are done. It and Delete translations for this page affect only this page.

Theme and plugin text

When your theme or a plugin prints text on the page, WPGlotty shows it below the page’s own text. This appears under the heading Theme and plugin text, and holds the words your theme and plugins print: buttons, labels and messages. WPGlotty groups the block by plugin or theme, for example WooCommerce, Twenty Twenty-Four or WordPress, and shows a count next to each group.

Each row carries a mark. A puzzle piece means the plugin or theme ships its own translation, and that is what visitors read. AI means WPGlotty translated it by machine, and a person means someone typed it by hand. Hover over a mark to see what it means, or tap it on a phone or tablet.

You can type over a plugin’s translation, and your own words win from then on. Click Use the translation from WooCommerce (or whichever plugin it is) to go back to the plugin’s own wording. These rows belong to the whole site rather than this page, so they sit outside the page’s own figures, Translate N missing and Approve all.

Placeholders

A placeholder is a piece of a sentence that the site fills in. It can be %s, %1$d, {customer_name}, a shortcode such as [cta], or a chip labelled unchanged, which stands for code or an icon. WPGlotty keeps these exactly as they are, whatever language you are writing.

In the editor, a placeholder appears as a chip you cannot delete. This applies in the plain box, in the box with formatting, and while you type directly in the page on the right. You type before and after a chip, and if you clear everything else, the chip stays. The list and the source line show placeholders as chips too.

WPGlotty will not save a translation that is missing a placeholder, and the message names the one that is missing. This applies to a single save and to a bulk save alike.

A correction is permanent

WPGlotty marks translations you edit by hand as human. Later runs, retranslations and model changes leave them unchanged. You can still edit them yourself.

Approval adds a green tick, not a human mark. WPGlotty keeps the machine label and original machine wording so you can see its source. Approve all approves every machine translation on the page in one click. Undo all approvals on this page reverses those approvals.

How the page looks in search

At the top of the editor, a Google search preview shows the page’s title, address and description in the language you are editing. You can edit the title and description there. Each has a character count and a bar, which turns red if the text is too short, too long or too wide. Below it, a preview shows how the page looks when shared on Facebook, LinkedIn and WhatsApp.

If the description is empty, click Take it from the page to use its opening words. With a provider that can write connected, click Write one with AI to create a description. Both options save to your SEO plugin’s existing field. WPGlotty then translates it along with the other text.

Pictures

You can use a different picture for each language, such as a translated screenshot or a photograph showing a local price. Click the image on the page. The editor shows the source language’s image and its alt text. Choose a replacement to use for the current language only.

WPGlotty translates alt text with the rest of the page. If an image has no alt text, you can add it here. The alt text is saved with the image in the media library, so the source language uses it too.

Getting around

Ctrl+Enter saves and moves to the next string. Alt with the arrow keys moves through the list. Escape closes the panel. You can choose a light or dark theme. The editor remembers your last language and uses it when you open the next page.

The editor highlights text that needs attention on the page. You can see which sentences are untranslated without checking the list.

The strings screen

WPGlotty → Strings shows the same translation data as a list. You filter by language and status: Untranslated, Machine translated, Needs review or Reviewed. Set Found in to Theme and plugin text, and Status also offers Translated by the plugin. You can search originals and translations.

A row translated by a plugin shows a status such as By WooCommerce. The box holds the plugin’s own translation, with a note underneath that says where it came from. Found in names the plugin for that row. These rows have no Retranslate button, and a bulk Retranslate leaves them out.

Untranslated counts only text that nobody has translated, so a plugin’s own translation does not appear there. Type your own words in the box and save to use them instead.

Use the page to check tone in context. Use the list to rename products, correct terms across the site or find untranslated text.