While our Translation Style Guide has tips that are applicable to all languages, the locale-specific glossaries and style guides listed on this article provide more detailed guidelines for translators.
If you know more references we should add, please contact us in the Translations Forum. You can also take a look at existing WordPress.org resources on this Polyglots Handbook page.
The style guides can also be downloaded from this folder. You can access more glossaries from individual translation projects.
A running list of WordPress Editor blocks used in the WordPress Editor and translations for select languages can be found here.
A glossary of UI terms and their translations for select languages can be found here.
Our English glossary includes some definitions of our standard terms.
| Locale | Glossary | Style Guide | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic | العربية | ar | Glossary | Style Guide |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 简体中文 | zh-cn | Glossary | Style Guide |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 繁體中文 | zh-tw | Glossary | Style Guide |
| Dutch | Nederlands | nl | Glossary | Style Guide |
| Finnish | Suomi | fi | Glossary | |
| French | Français | fr | Glossary | Style Guide |
| French (Canada) | Français du Canada | fr-ca | Glossary | Style Guide |
| German | Deutsch | de | Glossary | Style Guide |
| Greek | el | Glossary | ||
| Greek (Polytonic) | el-po | Glossary | ||
| Hebrew | עִבְרִית | he | Glossary | Style Guide |
| Hungarian | Magyar | hu_HU | Glossary | |
| Indonesian | Bahasa Indonesia | id | Glossary | Style Guide |
| Italian | Italiano | it | Glossary | Style Guide |
| Japanese | 日本語 | ja | Glossary | Style Guide |
| Korean | 한국어 | ko | Glossary | Style Guide |
| Persian | فارسی | fa | Glossary | |
| Polish | Polski | pl | Glossary | Style Guide |
| Portuguese (Brazil) | Português do Brasil | pt-br | Glossary | Style Guide |
| Portuguese (Portugal) | Português | pt | Glossary | |
| Romanian | Română | ro | Glossary | |
| Russian | Русский | ru | Glossary | Style Guide |
| Spanish (Spain) | Español | es | Glossary | Style Guide |
| Swedish | Svenska | sv | Glossary | Style Guide |
| Telugu | తెలుగు | te | Glossary | Style Guide |
| Turkish | Türkçe | tr | Glossary | Style Guide |
| Urdu | اردو | ur | Glossary | Style Guide |
Additional Resources
For more links, you can also check the Locale Community Links page.
German
Use the informal style (“du”).
- WordPress.com support site (partial)
- WordPress.com support site translation instructions
Hebrew
WordPress.com translation differs from WordPress translation, specifically the term “post”.
Russian
Use the formal style (“вы”).
- WordPress.com support site (partial)
