As Merchant integrates with the Polylang translation plugin, you can translate the text strings of your Merchant modules into any language.
With Merchant and Polylang, you can create a multilingual WooCommerce store in just a few steps.
Below, we’ll see how you can translate your Merchant strings from English into Spanish using the Polylang plugin. You can use the same workflow with any other languages.
1. Install and Activate the Polylang Plugin
Click the Plugins > Add New Plugin menu in the left sidebar of your WordPress admin area and type ‘polylang’ into the search box.
Once Polylang shows up in the results, click the Install Now, and then the Activate buttons:
2. Go Through Polylang’s Onboarding Wizard
Polylang will show an onboarding wizard as soon as it’s activated. The wizard consists of five screens where you can configure your translation settings.
Fill in all the options carefully:
Once all the settings are configured, click the Return to the Dashboard button.
3. Activate the Merchant Module(s) You Want to Translate
To translate a Merchant module, first, you need to activate it from the Merchant dashboard.
Below, we’ll show how to translate the Inactive Tab Message module into Spanish, which includes two text strings.
Click the Merchant menu in the left sidebar of your WordPress admin area, open the module, then click the Enable button to activate it:
4. Translate Your Text Strings
Open Polylang’s Translations page by clicking the Languages >Translations menu in your WordPress admin area.
Here, you’ll see all the strings belonging to the Merchant modules you have activated on your site.
You can either type the translations right into the translation fields or, if you want, you can filter for Merchant’s strings by clicking the View all groups dropdown at the top of the page, selecting the Merchant option, then clicking the Filter button:
Translate the strings, then click the Save Changes button at the bottom of the page:
As you can see in the screenshot below, the translated text immediately shows up in your store once the changes are saved:
In the example above, only one Merchant module was activated on the demo site.
If you have more than one active module, they will all show up on Polylang’s Translations page, so you can translate them all at once:
