Publish your first translation
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Translation happens in four steps: find the text, translate it, check it, publish it.
1. Find the text (scan)#
LgTranslate needs to know which text is on your site. The WordPress plugin and the Shopify app do this for you. For other sites, the API or the command line starts a scan of the pages or the sitemap you give. See The command-line tool.
On the site page, choose Scan my site now. The box is filled with the home page of each address you allowed for the site. Add more pages if important ones are not linked from the home page, one address per line.
A panel shows the scan: waiting, scanning pages, how many new strings it found, and done. You can leave the page. The scan carries on. It follows your robots.txt file, only reads the addresses you allowed for the site and never reaches private networks. New text counts towards your plan's limit for strings. When the limit is reached, the page says so and does not start the scan.
You can also let the product scan again every day or every week. See Scan again and publish by itself. The site page's checklist always names the next step.
2. Translate#
Machine translation fills in every string that has no translation yet. It never replaces a translation that a person wrote or reviewed. The editor can start it again for chosen rows. See Bulk actions.
3. Check#
Open Editor and read the strings that matter most: headlines, buttons, prices, legal text. Edit what is wrong. Anything you edit by hand is marked as manual and is kept.
4. Publish#
On the site page, choose Publish now. The button stays disabled, with an explanation, until something has been translated. If you force it anyway, the server refuses. The dashboard builds signed files and sends them to every delivery target. It writes the manifest last, so visitors never see a half-published set.
Publishing runs in the background. The page shows the job state. The site list shows Live with a version number when everything arrived, Partly updated when a target failed, and Not published before the first publish.
Publishing again after a double click does not make two versions. It is safe to repeat.
Automatic publishing#
Publishing right after each translation run is off by default. Switch it on per site with Publish automatically after each translation run in the site's Automation box. See Scan again and publish by itself.
Check the result#
Open your site in a private window and pick a language. If the page stays in the source language, go to My page is not translating.