While Podia’s default site language is English, you can easily change your site’s default language to any of our supported languages.

Introduction

Changing your site’s default language is quick and easy. You don’t need to translate your account's built-in interface yourself; we’ll automatically handle it for you.

Your site’s default language determines the language members will see by default throughout their experience. This affects both your public-facing site and the logged-in experience for members.

While members can still choose a different language from their own account settings, setting a default language ensures most of your audience sees your site in the language that’s best suited for them by default.

Here’s an example from Antoine BM:

What gets translated?

Almost everything customer-facing will be translated once you change your default site language, including the home feed, automated customer emails, navigation buttons on your site, checkout page.

What gets translated:

The Home Feed interface and navigation.
Transactional emails, such as event reminders and notification emails.
Your site's navigation and interface elements, such as Login and Join buttons.
Specific pages of your site, such as checkout, login pages, etc.

What doesn’t get translated:

Posts, comments, chats, and other content created by you or other people.
Site content created by you as the account owner, such as pages, product descriptions, and other custom content.
Marketing emails, such as broadcasts and campaigns sent by you as the account owner.
Any content from products you create on Podia.

Supported languages

Today, we support the following languages:

English
French
Portuguese (Brazilian)
Spanish
Spanish (Mexico)
German
Danish
Dutch
Italian
Swedish
Hungarian
Russian

Changing your site's language

From your home feed, click on your site name and select Admin from the dropdown menu.
From the Admin dashboard, click Settings in the sidebar menu.
Click Edit next to the Site Language option.
Select the language you'd like to use for your site by picking your preferred language from the dropdown menu.
Hit Save to save your changes.

FAQs

Does my Admin dashboard get translated?

No. Anything admin-facing, such as your Admin dashboard and Podia system emails, won’t be translated, so you’ll continue to see and use Podia in English.

As a workaround, you can try using a browser translation extension (for example, Google Translate) to translate your Podia dashboard. Keep in mind that third-party translation tools can sometimes cause issues when using Podia.

Can I have a multi-language website?

Currently, Podia does not offer full support for multi-language websites.

However, there are some strategies you can implement to create a structure on your site that accommodates multiple languages.

You can read more about it here: Can I have a multi-language website?

Members can also change their account's language directly from their end.

Can you support my language?

If you don't find your preferred language listed, don't hesitate to reach out to us at [email protected].

We take language requests seriously and prioritize adding new languages based on the level of demand and user requests.

Can I manually translate my site?

At this time, manually translating your site is not supported.

Although you can fill your site with content in your preferred language, there are some buttons and automated emails with fixed text that correspond to your site's default language.