Languages

A Closer site can speak several languages: English, Srpski (Serbian), Русский (Russian), العربية (Arabic), Français (French), Español (Spanish) and Deutsch (German). How many languages each site can have depends on your plan.

How visitors see languages

• The main language is shown at your main address, for example my-company.closer.rs.
• Every other language has its own address with the language code: my-company.closer.rs/de, my-company.closer.rs/de/pricing and so on.
• The site header shows a language switch: with two languages a single button for the other language, with more a small menu listing all of them.
• Arabic is shown right-to-left automatically.
• If a text is not translated, visitors see it in the main language, so nothing is ever empty.
• Search engines get the language versions linked to each other, so each audience finds the right one.

Texts the system writes for visitors (cart, form messages, the purchase email) are already available in all seven languages.

Choosing your site's languages

You pick the languages when you create the site. To change them later:

1. In the editor, open the Settings tab.
2. Open Languages.
3. Under Site languages, click a language to add or remove it. The counter (for example 2 / 3) shows how many your plan allows.
4. To change the main language, click its code next to Main language (at the address without /code):.
5. Click Publish.

Changing the main language changes which language opens at your main address. Links to pages keep working; they simply get a language code when needed.

If you need more languages than your plan allows, upgrade in Account → Plan & billing. If you move to a plan with fewer languages, the extra languages are kept but hidden from visitors.

Editing in different languages

When a site has more than one language, the editor toolbar shows a button for each language (for example EN, DE).

1. Click a language in the toolbar. The preview switches to that language.
2. Every text field now edits that language. Each field also shows the current language code; click it to switch quickly.
3. Under a field you see the text in the other language for reference.
4. A yellow note Missing translation: visitors see the text in the main language. tells you what still needs translating.

Images, colors, layout and settings like links are shared by all languages; only texts are per language.

Products in the store have their own name and description fields for each language. See Store.

Translating the whole site with AI

You can let AI translate the whole site from the main language into another language in one go.

1. In the editor toolbar, click the language you want to fill in (not the main one).
2. Click AI translation (the button with the languages icon next to the language buttons).
3. Confirm. The AI translates every text from the main language into the selected language. An existing translation in that language is replaced.
4. While it works, the editor is locked and shows a progress bar (AI is translating the site. The editor is locked until it finishes, so nothing you change gets overwritten.). You can leave the page; the translation continues on our side.
5. When it is done, the editor reloads with the translated texts in the draft.
6. Review the result and click Publish.

AI translation uses your AI credits. See AI assistant.

Tips for good translations

• Finish and proofread the main language first, then translate.
• After translating, read the new language once in the preview, especially headlines and buttons.
• If you change a few texts later, edit them by hand in that language instead of translating the whole site again.

Emails in the visitor's language

The purchase email with the download code is sent in the language the buyer used on your site. The automatic reply to a form also follows the visitor's language: write its subject and message for each language in Email settings; a language you leave empty falls back to another version.