This week’s release focuses on a major technical upgrade to the framework used by the Weglot Dashboard. This is mostly under the hood and invisible to you, but improves reliability and opens the door for further improvements such as SSO. Stay tuned for that!

[New] URL-wide operations

You’re now able to easily order professional translations or export all your translations by selecting one or multiple pages.

[New] WordPress plugin 3.7

The new version of the WordPress plugin, version 3.7, has entered beta and will be released in a few days. It includes the following:

• Access to the visual language switcher editor to easily customize the look of your switcher and preview the change live.
• Improvements to the language switcher accessibility.
• Better performance in the WordPress admin.
• The ability to easily translate PDFs sent by some Woocommerce invoicing plugins.

If you’d like to beta test it, please reach out to us at support@weglot.com. 

[Improvement] Squarespace Integration

We’ve made multiple changes to improve the experience for the newly released Squarespace native integration. 

[Improvement] Dashboard Interface

• You can now access the edition of your translations directly from the homepage.
• [Enterprise] The custom language creation flow handles erroneous inputs better.
• [Enterprise] You can now more easily filter URL slugs by whether they’re translated or untranslated.

Bug fixes

• Multiple fixes to the translation of the Shopify checkout.
• A fix to how the Visual Editor handles some edge cases of Javascript-based navigation.

[Beta] Subdirectories

We’ve made several improvements to the technical setup flow for the Subdirectories - the ability to put your Spanish-translated pages under https://www.example.com/es/… and the same domain as your main website. If you’d like to beta test this feature, reach out to us at support@weglot.com.

updateTranslation list filters  

We’ve now made it possible for you to select multiple filters within each value from your Translations List. For example, you can select both automatic and manual translation. 

This is useful if you want to view your translations based on a number of filters and also helpful when exporting translations directly from the Translations List. 

To access this feature, navigate to your ‘Translations List’ and then select the relevant filters from the dropdown, combining the filters as required.  

updateActivity log

The recently launched ‘Activity log’ has now been updated to include details of when someone makes a change to a glossary rule.

UPDATEStatistics 

For those with several languages on their Weglot project, your homepage will now give a general overview of all your translation requests. 

You can then navigate to your ‘Statistics’ tab to view in detail each separate language. 

Note: Statistics are only available for those on a Pro plan or above. 

new Activity log 

You can now view all the activities associated with your Weglot project through a dedicated page ‘Activity events’. Here you can filter by ‘User’ and then the type of activity that was carried out. 

This is useful as it gives you a clear overview of any activity that has taken place and by which team member. 

To access this feature, go to the homepage of your Weglot Dashboard, and on the right-hand side under ‘Activity’ click on ‘+ View more’. 

UPDATE Glossary custom language 

The glossary feature has now been fixed to ensure any rules you make with a custom language where there’s no language provider selected (for example British English to American English) will be applied. 

UPDATE Project progress bar 

We’ve made a small update on your Weglot Dashboard homepage to show the exact percentage of your current word usage and translation requests when you hover over it. 

This gives you a simple overview so you know when you’ll reach your monthly limit. This is only visible if you have 1 project. 

update Search and replace returns

We’ve brought back the search and replace feature within your Translations List. This makes it easy for you to find and replace certain translated words quickly and in bulk. 

This is useful if you want to change a particular translation across the whole of your website. To access the feature go to your Translations List > language pair and then click on the icon next to the search bar. 

A box will appear where you can search your translations (in the translated language) and replace with a different translation. You can also choose between case sensitive or not. 

Click ‘Replace xx translation(s) and the change will be made in all of your translations in the Translations List and across your website - the translation will then be renamed ‘manually edited’. 

Note: the glossary feature is more suited to those that would like to set up a rule so a particular word is always replaced by a different one automatically, rather than manually using the search and replace. 

new  Filter translations by ‘reviewed by’ 

It’s now possible to filter your translations by the team member (or translator) that reviewed, edited, or ordered a professional translation. 

This is useful for your translation management workflow as you can quickly see who in your team has edited which parts of your website. 

To access this feature, navigate to your Translations > Translations list and use the filter to select the team member or translator from the dropdown. 

update Importing translations

We’ve added a new option to the import feature located in the Translations List section of the Weglot Dashboard. When you upload a CSV or XLIFF file with your edited translations, you’ll now see a new option to toggle on or off if the file includes translations that haven’t been changed from the ones exported from the Translations List. 

For instance, if you’re importing your translations and you have not made edits to some of the automatic translations but you’re happy for them to be displayed on your website, you can toggle on the option ‘Mark unchanged translations as reviewed’. This means they will now be displayed as a ‘Manually edited translation’ in your Translations List.  

If you don’t wish to do that, then keep the toggle off. Those translations will remain as an ‘Automatic translation’ in your Translations List. 

We’ve also made a couple of other small updates:

• Emojis are now better handled in XLIFF and CSV imports
• The type of content e.g. text, media, meta SEO are now clearly marked in your translation exports 

update Easier media translation through the Visual Editor 

For those editing through the Visual Editor, we’ve now made it easier to make a change to your media files. 

Simply hover over an image/video and click on the blue pencil icon to replace the media file and to edit the alt text translation. You no longer need to add the media file through your Translations List first. 

update Shopify App 

We’ve updated the Weglot Shopify translation app for an improved user experience. You can now use subdomains to display the translated versions of your store (e.g. https://fr.mywebsite/). 

This is particularly appealing for store owners who want an improved localization experience for their customers as the subdomains will now be visible to human visitors, instead of only bots. 

If you’re already using the Weglot Shopify app you’ll need to make a change in the DNS records of your domain name provider (you can watch our tutorial videos on how to do that). 

Essentially, you’ll need to create a CNAME entry with the 'host' as the 2 letter language code of the language you’ve added to your store, and then point it to websites.weglot.com. 

After you’ve done that, return to your Weglot App settings in the Shopify dashboard and follow the simple setup instructions once you’ve clicked ‘Activate subdomains.’ 

update Glossary 

When you add a translation rule to the Weglot Glossary such as ‘Always Translate’ along with your chosen word or term, any time the translation appears in your Translations List, it will now be marked as a ‘Manual edited translation’. 

update Glossary rule

You can now add a glossary rule to one, multiple, or all language pairs. This makes it easier to set up glossary rules across your multilingual website. 

To access this feature go to your Weglot Dashboard > Translations > Glossary. Simply click on the ‘Add glossary rule’, add the word you want to make a rule, and then select which language pair you want to apply the rule to. 

new Associated URL

It’s now possible to select several translations at once and change the ‘associated URL’. 

Go to your Translations > select the language pair then click on the translations you want to change the associated URL of and click on the three dots in the bottom right corner. 

Click on ‘Change associated URL’. A box will appear, simply select the associated URL you’d like to add the translations to. 

update Switch language in translations list 

We’ve now added a useful button to your translations list that enables you to switch between your languages without having to go back to the translations tab. 

This makes it more efficient when you want to access your different languages and make edits. 

update  Managed URL improvements 

We’ve made it easier to crawl your URLs by allowing you to select multiple at the same time. 

This is useful if you’ve added new content to several pages and you want the content to be quickly added to your translations list. Or, if you’ve added new pages to your website and you want to crawl several at once. 

To access this feature go to your Translations list > and select the language you want to edit. Then scroll down to the bottom of your URLs (listed on the left hand side). Click ‘Manage URLs’ and then select the URLs you want to crawl and click the ‘fetch’ icon highlighted below. 

new Disable subdomain integration 

You now have the option to disable your subdomain integration. This can be useful if you’ve started a subdomain integration, but you’re not ready yet or if you don’t want your translated pages to be indexed on Google anymore. 

To access this go to your Weglot Dashboard > Settings > Setup. Scroll down the page and toggle off the ‘Enable Subdomains’ option.  

new Hmong now available 

We’re pleased to now offer Hmong as a language option. This family of languages spoken in southern China, northern Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand is now available to add through your dashboard. 

update Media translations

We’ve updated the way you handle your media translations. Instead of switching on ‘enable media translation’ in your settings tab (this is no longer available), you can now simply add the exact media URL you’d like to replace via your translations list. 

This saves you from having 100s of media files in your translations list when the majority of users only ever change a couple. 

To translate a media file go to your Translations list > select language pair. Scroll to the bottom of the page and you’ll see ‘Add a media translation’.  

Click on this button, then add the original media file URL and the media file URL you’d like to replace it with, then ‘Add’. Simple! Your image has now been replaced in your new language and will appear in your Translations list. You can then filter your Translation list by Media to see your Media elements. 

new Add glossary rules to professional translation order

You can now choose to send your glossary rules along with your professional translation orders within the Weglot Dashboard. Add translations as normal to your order - then when reviewing your order you can click ‘Include glossary rules’ if you’d also like to send these to the professional translator so they can take them into account when translating your content.

update Rename and delete labels

For those using the labels function, you can now rename or delete them. 

To access this go to your Translations list > select language pair and then click ‘see details’ for one of your translations. Click on the tab ‘Information’ then click inside the Labels field, you can now see ‘Edit labels’. 

Simply click on your label if you want to change the name or delete it if you no longer need it.