So now that your store is available to an international market, you may now want to translate it into
different languages.
After all, it would make an awful lot of sense.
So how do we do that?
Well, to demonstrate this, I'm going to translate my store into Portuguese.
And to get started, I'll therefore click in to the Portugal primary market where you see this for every
single market languages and domains, meaning that we can associate any language we want with any market.
So in this case clicking into this at the moment it's set of course to English.
Now to be able to easily offer our store in Portuguese, we want to use an app.
And you can see that Shopify wants us to use this app below.
Shopify Translate and Adapt.
And although it is free in my opinion, it really isn't that great.
And since, as you know, I only suggest the best possible apps on this course, I would like to show
you another app.
But of course you can use this if you so wish.
So let me come out of here, go to apps and then in the search bar type.
Well what kind of a funny name.
But you're going to see this when you translate your store.
Click on this and you see the headline translate your store into multiple languages without any code,
which I'm sure you find very appealing.
So let's simply go ahead and install install once again.
I'll then choose a password to kick off my free trial and click on Sign Up where we can then choose
the language.
So of course, originally we are showing it in English, but now I want to show it in English and also
Portuguese.
So I need to select Portuguese from this list.
So scrolling on down towards the bottom here, here is Portuguese.
I select that and then click on save.
Then a small technical point to actually activate the app on the store itself.
So click on activate.
It then takes me to the theme editor.
So just make sure that this slider is over here on the right hand side and then click on save.
And now when I go back to the installation process and click on Check Activation, you can see that
it now says Wiglet is working and translating your website.
It's all set up correctly.
So then I can click on continue.
And believe it or not, it now says a well done.
Your website is now a multilingual.
Visit your website and try the language button at the bottom right of your website.
So let's do exactly that.
Let's go to the store.
So clicking on visit your website where I draw your attention to the language button in the bottom right
hand corner of the website.
And as you can see here at the moment it's set to English.
But if I select this I can now change it to Portuguese.
And when I do, everything on my site is instantly changed to Portuguese.
I'm sure you would agree that that is very impressive.
Now, having said that, if you're a native Portuguese speaker looking at this, you might be thinking,
well, hang on a second.
That Portuguese is not exactly perfect because of course, at the end of the day, this app is using
an auto translate facility.
So if that was the case and you did want to make some alterations, then of course you can do that.
And if I go back to the app itself, up the top here, you can see there's a button edit my translations
when I click on this.
And then on Manage Translations you can see the English to Portuguese is the current translation.
And if I click on this, it brings up an editor with, in my case, English on one side and Portuguese
on the other.
And if I wanted to change this, all I would need to do is to click into it and make any changes that
I like.
So that's all very impressive, but at the same time, having to come down and click on this little
language selection button down in the bottom right hand corner is kind of a fiddly process, and it's
also likely that your customers may not see it at all.
So what would be better is if the system were able to detect, in my case, that I'm in Portugal and
immediately show me the store in Portuguese without me having to do anything?
Well, good news, because Wiglet also offers that capability.
And so back on the app, scrolling down under the advanced settings, you see this auto redirection.
Enable auto switch.
If you want to automatically redirect visitors based on their browser language, and if I click on manage
and then on Manage Translations once again, but this time under the settings, I'll click on general.
And here is the auto switch that they're talking about.
And so if I switch this on now my site is going to show in Portuguese for anyone who set their browser
language to Portuguese.
And should that fail for any reason, you can see here that there's an auto switch fallback, meaning
that it would show the store in the original language, which of course is English.
And so to complete the activation, all I need to do is to put in my proper website URL and then simply
click on Save changes.
And so now I hope you can really see how simple it is to translate your store into other languages as
your business goes international.