As seen here: https://forum.webflow.com/t/built-in-website-localization-translation-features/4248?u=samliew&source_topic_id=36890

This would be such a great addition. Currently for a number of clients we use localizejs.com, a good solution... but of course having it within webflow would be way better for our clients. I think the solution Vincent created is the way to go for this.

Please give us multi language support. Would be really great. International clients are growing on the webflow platform, so this is definitely a great feature to have.

Absence of multi-language sites is the only blocker that stops my switch from shared hosting website to Webflow CMS.

This is a must-have feature for almost all the companies that I've worked before.

There are now some turnarounds, I've tried them all: 

• Multilingualizer: Overall the best option but with two big drawbacks. It has some lag when it loads the page (which really sucks) and it's really disgusting while you use it in the Designer panel (you've to put the text in all the languages you need. It results in a big blob of text. Picture that in all the website's texts :S).
• Bablic/Localize.js: Very expensive and not SEO friendly (Multilingualizer is much better).
• Subdirectories: Also a good turnaround but also not good for SEO and not suitable for Dynamic Pages.

This is a MUST HAVE feature if Webflow wants to be considered a professional CMS / Webdesign tool that can be used on a global, international scale !

It would great to have a solution for this. For now, I thing that working with folders is a good solution (/en /pt /es etc). I'm studying right now how can I work with the CMS for multiple language content. The "temporary" solution that I'm trying is create a Collection "Languages" and then I created Text Fields on Blog Posts that I called "Select the Language of the Post".

Then, I need to create both Collection Page Templates (for each language, such as /en/blog and /pt/blog etc). The same design, but I'm Filtering the Dynamic List that only shows content for the selected language.

It's working :)

This is a must have feature more so than anything else even! Been also working by adding folder directories on webflow and it's been a pain for most of the time (adding language canonicals, working with dynamic user addeable content etc.). 

The localize and bablic solutions are not sufficient for some of the more complex websites and costs get out of hand instantly.

If this feature gets resolved within 2017 the growth of Webflow as a viable online platform will be explosion-like. Guys at the Webflow team, please move this to the planning table at the soonest! ;-)

This is really strange, the fact multi-lang support hasnt been added by now!?

The fact that this is still in state "Considering" makes me anxious.. 😳

Makes me wonder if Jason is going through the different topics to merge the ones that are the same? I see that Multi-Language Editor is here as well...  

Hi,

Definitely one of the best update possible for Webflow. We work in Europe and our websites have to be translated without compromise on the SEO precision.

@+big-one

1000 times yes :D The lack of this feature often leads to chose another platform than Webflow to develop a site.

@marcel posted a mockup of mine in the first comment, but this can't be as simple as that.

I've built several multi languages sites with Wordpress and Drupal and there is an essential notion of "sync". Basically, a post is created in one language and can or cannot appear as-is for the other languages (it's an option). Then it can be translated "exactly", meaning each field get to be translated (or elected to be used "as is" for example for a link, or a name..). Then those translated posts can be "unsynced" because they need specific content. "Translation" is a too technical term for what we want, the good one is "Localization" and or many reason, localizing an item sometimes requires it to become very specific, different from the original.

Anyone who worked with the WPML plugin on Wordpress sees what I mean.

This would solve the problem I have of having used up all my 20 collections - as i have created two for each (one dutch, one english). If this enabled me to save on my sum of collections then great!

Dear Webflow, my cute CMS-lookalike,

I have tried to get around your single-language principle. But there are so many drawbacks if I try to get my pages in two or more languages.

That is why I'm giving up on you, Webflow, as we speak, sadly. Otherwise, you are such a neat system, but missing a dual-language/multi-language feature in a CMS makes you dead as a doornail for so many European sites.

Solutions like Localizejs etc. is simply not acceptable because of the functionality and certainly also because of the price. Of course we need to keep the localizations the same place that we keep our web pages. Either at Webflow or on our own site server.

Dear Webflow, I you decide to grow up and become a CMS, then please have a look at the adult CMS'es and make sure that a multi-language feature should _not_ be a separate page hierarchy. It should be one site map where each page can exist in one or more languages. At best it should be optional to keep the language differences to individual fields. Say, for instance, on a page with images where only the headline should be shown in more than one language. And make sure that when the user clicks on another language in any pages, then he/she will arrive at the exact same page for the other language.

Anyway, dear Webflow, I loved you (I'm crying now), but you let me down with my most basic needs. So I'm leaving you.

Bo
from Denmark

I'm in awe! I did not check that if webflow supports Multi-Language and RTLs because of webflow being one the number one trending solutions on the web and also multi-language supports is the one thing that everything and every system has in common. It is something you assume it's available. I just started my 3 rd website in the last 2 weeks of using Webflow. I just started forcing my clients to make hosting here now I learn that there is not support for multi and when I emailed you about it, you suggest a paid system. It is not classy. I m stuck now. I just started to get a hang of this. I'm from Turkey and my clients require 3 or 4 languages on their sites. It is just not OK to have this feature.

Take your time, hurry up
Choice is yours, don't be late.

Any news on this? Multi-language sites would be absolute killer to have! As a Swede who lives and works in the APAC region, over a decade now, a majority of my clients and connections are from Asia. As of late my network have started to grow in the Far East, Anatolia and Russia as well. I'd love to have the option to provide my sites with multiple languages going forward. I know there are external workarounds like Multilingualizer and Bablic/Localize.js and whatnot but not I'm keen on footing an extra monthly bill just for language support if it can be avoided. Also I'd like to be able to stay and work within Webflow's comfy environment with an interface that I love and understand. 

Totally need local language for dates. I am making a site in Dutch. I really need days being displayed. That is now only possible in english. That looks so amateurish I feel embarrassed about it.

And it would be so much better if months could be displayed in local text instead of numbers. Displaying a date as 18/5/2017 is possible, but '18 mei 2017' processes my brain much better than 18/5/2017. Because the 5 needs to be translated in my head to come up with 'mei'. People say: let's make an appointment april 20. Or 20th of april. Never '20th of four' or 'four-twenty'. So date format is either not reader-friendly or I have to use english months which is amateurish. 

Can't be that hard I would think...

Customisable language code for individual static pages would be good enough for start.

Currently we can set up only one tag for the whole site.

We've started targeting another (non-english) market and lack of this option is just killing our SEO optimisation efforts :(

If you are starting to do this, don't forget to give the ability to change the url structure also... that a must for Google!

What's the status on this one? Approx. launch date, pls.?

We design websites here in Switzerland and we use very often webflow. We have 4 different languages in our small country, so we need urgently a solution for multilanguage sites within webflow. 

So please go ahead and give us this feature very soon, that would be great.

I was going to start with a project (and 2 more in the pipeline) but seeing that there is no multi-language support, i have to go look further.

based in europe, so we need this feature!

When this feature is available we can look again into your very cool platform. 

Please implement multi language support asap.

Needed for europe!

Responded to the survey questions! Thanks!

I appreciate that Webflow is mainly a frontend/webdesigner tool, not meant for content-heavy multi-language websites (but as this thread shows, many would love to see the 2 merge). Building it properly will take quite some resources, while other systems might already have this figured out.

Wouldn't it be an idea to let Webflow focus their valuable time on what the current system does best but enable an integration with headless CMS/content systems like Knack or Contentful?

Resources/focus wise that would make much more sense to me. Just my 2 cents :)

Yes please make it that way. I'm loosing so many clients because of that limitation !

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I develop a web server app to host websites, my customers could edit their web pages and make simple changes with an Html text editor. My client app allows you to change the current language, then just type the text in the current language (preferably :-)) and save your translation. This is all great if the website was created with my own system, but we are using Webflow with all of his awesome/great features. Now, you can export your website from Webflow (zip file), but you cannot import a website to Webflow!!!

How, then, could you manage your translations? It would be great to have a very simple interface to manage languages with Webflow (simple for us, the customers), like I did with my server/client apps, just change the current language and type. I know it will take some time to implement it, but it will make our life soooooo easier!

Following the same concept, it would be good to add a new type of user on Webflow, the type Translator with his only right will be to modify the text of a specific language

I will be more than happy to help you guys to develop it :-)!

I really want this feature - I run a digital agency and the lack of i18n is the one single reason I have not chosen to develop multiple recent client projects with Webflow, as it is a fantastic solution but i18n is a deal-breaker for most of my clients these days.

Solutions like localize are very expensive (50 dollars a month minimum for only 2 languages)

Would really like to see this move along. I have had too many clients requesting multi-language support. I would love Webflow to be the hub of all my web projects but without this feature - unfortunately, it won't be.

I'm so happy to learn this request is in planning/development. It's one of the most requested features of my clients. 

ik denk toch dat we hier op moeten wachten voor DF!

Koen Spaansen
mail@koen.nl

PageMyDay
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www.pagemyday.nl

Op 13 feb. 2018 om 21:35 heeft Webflow Wishlist (Linda Pham) > het volgende geschreven:

So glad to learn this is in planning!

This is a must have, almost ALL my clients are requesting multi-language these days. I really really hope this feature will be released as soon as possible in 2018!

<3

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Nicolas Nemni
About me: www.nclx.io

Hi guys when you are planing to deploy these feature? We need this very much! :)

I'm a new customer, making the choice if to choose webflow or wordpress... lack of multi-language support would force me to go with wordpress. Any ETA for this feature? 

I'm a new user to Webflow and have been impressed and had planned to slowly move all of my clients over but having just learnt that Webflow doesn't have multi-language built in, is a real downer. This will make me think again as quite a few of my WordPress sites are multi-language. I hope Webflow can fix this soon as I would love to stay with Webflow.

Hi, I see that this feature has been a planned feature for nearly a year now. Would really love to know what the status of this is? A lot of my website visitors are people with visual impairment who use screen readers. Not being able to add a language tag to my texts really messes with that making much of my website incomprehensible and inaccessible. This should not be an acceptable approach. I really look forward to hearing from you on this.

I just found out about Webflow and I'm quite excited by its unique approach. However, the missing multi-language support is a killer for our project. The last update was 4 months ago. What's the current status?

Is there an estimated date for this feature? Thanks for an awesome software.

Our SEO-Expert is forcing us away from webflow, because we can't provide URLs for foreign languages!

What's up with this option? It's really giving us hard times... :( Any good info around this? Any timeframe?

I need this one, located in Europe...
To many languages over here :) 

I strongly support this.

Have been enjoying Webflow, but multi-lingual support comes often with European clients.

Looking forward to having this available in 2019!

Support multilingual is super important if we can customize localization will be helpful for build website with Chinese, and I think zh market is really huge.

I think i found a good and free way to do it. Check it out: https://forum.webflow.com/t/full-multi-language-site-easy-to-set-up-and-to-use/67398

Providing an effective language switching link or button is equally important!

Yes! We'd be happy to join any user-test you want to do for this.

Martijn Versteeg

martijn@versteeglloyd.nl

I would love to have this, like right now :)

A couple of months ago I did talk to you guys and gave feedback to one of your draft versions for a beta. I thought back then you were getting close to release the feature.

It looks like it is getting delayed. Can you you explain why? And/or update your deadlines? Thanks a lot and looking forward to test it!

Cheers from one of your many European customers.

PS: By the way, congrats launching e-commerce!

At least make localized month names an option when writing dates. And make it case sensitive!

You might want to look at what TYPO3 does, because it offers good multi-country supportz

It offers:

1) Full back so that for say multiple spanish speaking regions (Ecuador, Chile) you can use one version of the site and take an implicit clone. The advantage is that the clones are LINKED so makign maintenance easier. You only change what really needs to be changed.

The point: you inherit content based on the same language and override the parent content only whats needed specific for the child site (pages, content elements)

2) for EU sites (with very different multiple languages making cloning difficult) you need to clone a master site. Assuming you have a set of coporate sites you are managing as a collection and want to be more or less the same. Then you clone a site, for quick setup and jsut translate the pages and hide or add individual pages and sections (localize)

The point: cloning a site for quick translation

3) Translation workflow

When managing cloned site have some easy export and import function - to send a translation agency a file matching the translatable content (say XML) then the agency< sends this back.

TYPO3 has LN10 for this. So you might want to look at. But you basically want a way to mark fields for translation and send that as a standard markup for import into a agency translaiton tool like memoQ (Cat tool). 

The point: xporting and importing only the text to be translated

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Hello Webflow team,

Is there any update on the planning for multi-language support? Should we expect it mid-2019 or more towards the end of the year?

Thanks

Hey there, which Quarter you've planned the release? 

Thank you for your effort! 

We are about to lose at least one client, as they plan to expand to more markets, and are finding it troublesome with no multi language solution. I really cross fingers for this to be released asap. 

Any estimate on this? 1Q, 2Q? We don't know what to do, even if I just love working with Webflow, this feature only will crash the whole project soon. I'm planning an big pupdate, but my client already want's to step back, and suggesting changing it back to Wordpress. How can it be?

This feature would be really really useful!

We've build and shipped more than 25 Webflow sites with Webflow hosting in the last 2 years.

I could add 5 new clients instantaneously if there was a proper multilanguage option in Webflow and the CMS. For me, and most of my clients, this is the number one missing feature!

Please, Webflow, shed some light on the development of this and when we can expect more info and ultimately: a release date.

We started many projects with webflow, but a lot of them can't be completed because the lack of this feature. We bet on webflow, and multilanguage is crucial. If it will not be released soon, we will ned up to export code and put on wordpress, but we really would like to remain with webflow cms and hosting.

Update from Webflow's team today on Feb 19 2019 live Q&A

Direct link here (YouTube timestamp)

Question:

"What about multi-language? I need to sell my products in other markets."

Webflow's Answer:

"Definitely something that's, not only on our e-commerce radar, but Webflow sites in general that we do want to solve in the future. 

It's not something we're actively working on right now, but it is something we have started, Monica especially. 

We've done a lot thinking and digging into that. And it's a really huge undertaking and we do have plans to do that. We've achieved a lot and done a lot of the foundational pieces and we're doing that now. 

So it's something we are very much motivated to solve for you guys, so it is something that we're not currently developing, but we have a lot of the good groundwork and we're thinking about it a lot."

I really hope it's intuitive to use and bundled, and not a much pricier add-on. :(

After this as well the user systems release Webflow will just fly!

The fact this hasn't been still implemented is alarming.

Really hope they will ship this feature. For me is the least reason to complete adopt webflow, but if it will take too much, I will need to find some alternative or a different approach. 

Hope this feature is coming soon! Don't see why this is such a hustle to build that. Super cumbersome to work around and with many trade-offs... Would be happy to upgrade for that feature!

Some updates ? 

Any updates on your progress on this? Would be awesome to be able to plan around an estimate on when you want to launch it.

it is not acceptable that a cms does not allow this. Web agencies that invest money in your service should have this functionality as soon as possible.

This is so important! Please in 2019. I have big projects I have to refuse because of that. Keep working so hard incredible team!

C'mon! I have a project multi-language and I find this. 

I'm also really eager for this - currently have 3 sites in the planning that all need multi-language. Please get back on track with this #1 feature request.

Any update on this? This is really something needed.

The problem is that with Webflow we can create beautiful sites that are ruined by totally inappropriate multilingual solutions (like localize.js). Customers are not satisfied and selling Webflow-based solutions is still difficult.
We really need this feature.

In Planning? Who cares about this when basic Web Design functionality needs so much work like simple asset management? It seems as if the people who do this actually for a living don't get consulted, when this has 2500 votes and CMS and asset management don't and Webflow goes here, that makes me want to look elsewhere.  

What's the status on this one? Approx. launch date? This feature is very much needed!

Need this feature too. Here in Europe it´s quite important! Please let us know, where we are standing right now. I fear the possibility that "aiming to release (...) in 2019" means "perhaps you have to wait until 2020"..

I really like Webflow! Best, Chris 

Deal breaker :(

We can't leave our international users in the dark. Update?

Hi, any update in mid-2019?

Any chance this is making it to the backlog soon?

I'm also in the tight spot to start building multi-language into a webflow site.
Unfortunatly, i currently have to duplicate all pages.
Really waiting (anxiously) for updates around this must-have feature.

@webflow: Any news?

Please, give us some updates about that. I (but I think I'm not the only one here) have several projects on hold because of the lack of this feature.

All update for this feature?

We've got to get some updates here, Webflow.

This is far too fundamental to let wallow. Could we perhaps start a discussion on what features we might look for and what Webflow is comfortable delivering?

Are we holding our breath for nothing?

Not having multi-language support is the only reason that we don't use Webflow for most of our projects.

I need this quite badly, looking to host a chinese version of my site for chinese clients, and looking like I'm unable to do so currently with webflow. Will probably have to look for hosting on something else unless this is introduced soon.

It would also be the dream to be able to have different domains direct to different languages on the site. e.g. a .cn domain would direct to the chinese version of the site, while .com would direct to the english. A stretch but would be perfect for globalized use cases.

Can't wait to see this feature.
This is the only reason I can't use Webflow for most of my projects..
I hope this is the roadmap priority #1 

This is preventing us from using Webflow. Either provide first level support for plugins/tools etc. and some documentation how to use it or implement it in Webflow.

This would be huge as there's no cms with easy language management that is also seo friendly 

Guys, we really need this feature. Please prioritize.

We'd love, love, love this feature to be prioritized. We've delayed Webflow migration for so long because it's too much work to add multi-lingual to Webflow's rigid & dated webpage system.

Hi there, 

Absence of multi-language sites is the only blocker that stops us switching from shared hosting website to Webflow :-(
Quite a bummer since considering how Webflow has changed the game so far. 

This is a must-have feature. 

Can we please have any update on this? 

Regards, 
-Valentin

we would even consider donating for this, just tell us what you need. i mean from a business standpoint it makes no sense to not do it. you clearly would get a LOT of new paying customers. hire some new people to implement this if necessary

Hey guys,

I’m Eugene from Weglot (a multilingual solution to translate any website).

We recently launched a new way to make any Webflow website multilingual. It’s simple to install, SEO compliant and easy to manage.

We’ve just set up a demo website here: https://www.weglot-translate-wbflow.com/
And a simple setup guide here: https://weglot.com/integrations/translate-webflow/
Or if you prefer a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elLi7Ztnd8s

How does it work?

Weglot scans your website content, send it to our translation API and the API sends back the translations. You can integrate Weglot to your site via a simple JavaScript snippet or via a subdomain integration (More in-depth and better for SEO).

We are new to Webflow so we’d be happy to have your feedback! Let us know if you have any questions.

Eugene

Any updates? This is really needed by the community!

This is needed so badly! 2019 is more than half way over and still no updates! Please release this feature!

[NL] Het is inmiddels augustus... Wanneer wordt dit eindelijk beschikbaar?

[EN] It's August already... When will this finally become available?

It's urgent!  Put it as a paying feature, we'll go for it!

It have to follow the standard i18n.

IMHO it have to be possible to export the source language pack in JSON (the string names should be deducted from the page name.section name.item name.progressive, eventually editable as a property), and then to upload back the JSON language packs created with standard localization tools like Crowdin.com.

Thanks!

You can make dual language work in a pinch if you get creative. I was able to add a "Language" collection (English or Arabic as items) that I used as a single reference field to tag other collections/collection pages. Then you can use conditional visibility to "Show - if Language is Language of Current Category" etc. 

https://www.adshowdownweek.ae/

Any update on this feature?