Translate the built-in text on your site to make your content accessible to visitors who speak the selected language.

You can change the language that appears to you and your visitors in Squarespace.

There are two separate language settings:

• Account language - Change the settings that help you navigate Squarespace and edit your site.
• Site language - Change the built-in text that appears to visitors, like dates, form field labels, and navigation controls.

Use this guide to learn how to edit these settings and which areas are translated.

Supported languages

Note: We're slowly introducing support for account and site languages in Japanese and Turkish. This excludes Acuity Scheduling and the Squarespace mobile app. Some areas of the platform may not translate right away.

We currently support these languages for account language, site language, or both, depending on your site's version.

Feature	Supported languages
Both account language and site language	English French German Japanese (supported for site language on version 7.1 sites only) Italian Portuguese (Brazil) Spanish
Account language only	Turkish
Site language only (fully supported on version 7.1 sites)	Danish Dutch Finnish Norwegian (Bokmål) Swedish

Changing your account language

The account language is what appears when you log in and edit your site, like the words in the Home menu and panels. You can choose your account language in the account dashboard.

To open your account language settings, click this link. Or, follow these steps:

1. Open your account dashboard.
2. Click Account settings, then click Language.
3. Choose a language.
4. Close the profile to save your changes.
5. Your preferred account language will now appear on all sites you manage.

Keep in mind:

• The language is specific to each account. If your site has multiple contributors, everyone can choose which language they use independently. You can only change the language for your own account, even if you're an administrator for a site with other contributors.
• If your account has multiple sites, the account language setting applies to all of them.
• Changing your account language doesn’t affect the language that appears to visitors.
• It's not possible to change your account language from the Squarespace app. However, if the Squarespace app is using a different language than the one you've set on a computer, a prompt appears in the app asking if you'd like to update your language preference.

Changing your site language

Your site language is the built-in text that appears to your visitors. All version 7.1 sites and some version 7.0 templates support changing your site language to a supported language.

Change your site’s language in language settings:

1. If your site is on version 7.1, open the Site Languages panel. If your site is on version 7.0, open the Language & region panel.
2. Select a language from the Site language dropdown menu. Depending on when your site was created, this panel may also have a Localize website toggle. If it does, switch it on.
3. Click Save. All built-in text on your site will appear in the language you chose. If your site’s on version 7.1, you can preview the date, time, and currency format below the dropdown menu.

Keep in mind:

• Changing your site language only changes the built-in text. This setting doesn’t translate text you add yourself, like text blocks, page/post titles, categories, or tags.
• Built-in text only displays in one language at a time, unless you create a multilingual site with our Weglot integration.
• Your site's selected language appears in your site's header code. Services like search engines and accessibility software use this tag to identify your site's language.

Supported templates

You can change your site language in all version 7.1 sites and these version 7.0 templates:

• All Bedford family templates
• All Brine family templates
• All York family templates
• Julia, Kent, and Om in the Montauk template family
• Charlotte, Naomi, and Pacific in the Pacific template family

If you're using an unsupported template, you can switch to a supported template at any time. To switch from a supported template to an unsupported template, first change your site language to English. If you switch to a template that doesn’t support another language, all built-in text will revert to English.

Note: Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Japanese, Norwegian, and Swedish aren't fully supported on version 7.0 templates.

Areas that translate when you change your site language

When you change your site language, most of the built-in text on your site is translated, but some areas will stay in English.

These areas translate

• Block text, like "First Name" and "Submit" on form blocks
• Built-in commerce text, like the "Order Confirmed" message, checkout page, and notification emails
• Collection navigation features, like Comments and Previous/Next links in blog posts
• Confirmation emails for Squarespace Email Campaigns
• Placeholder text, like search in the search block

These areas don’t translate

• Calendars, like events pages and calendar blocks, use a Sunday-Saturday structure.
• Cover page demo content is in English.
• Text from most third-party integrations is in English. 

Learn how to change the language of your Acuity Scheduling account and scheduling page. 

Date localization

When you select a supported language for your site, these areas use localized formatting for the date, and a 24-hour clock for the time:

• Blog pages and individual blog posts
• Events pages and individual events
• Summary blocks displaying the date metadata
• Archive blocks displaying the date metadata

Localized formatting in these areas is supported in all version 7.1 sites, and these version 7.0 templates:

• All Bedford family templates
• All Brine family templates
• All York family templates

Date and time fields in form blocks use localized formatting that matches the location of your visitor.

Template stores

We have separate template stores for each supported language, so you can start a trial and pick a template in your language:

• English
• French
• German
• Italian
• Portuguese (Brazil)
• Spanish

FAQ

My site language didn’t change after choosing a new language.

If the language on your site didn’t change after editing it in language settings, you’re either using a site that only supports English, or using a language that's not supported. Only some sites can appear in non-English languages.

Will changing the site language change the text I’ve added?

No. Only the text that’s built into a site, like form block field titles and blog page navigation, translates automatically. Text you add and edit yourself, like page titles and text block text, remains in the language you enter.

Can I choose a site language that’s different from my account language?

Yes. For example, if you want to use Squarespace editing features in English, but you’re building a Spanish site, you can choose English as your account language (in the account dashboard) and Spanish as the site language (in language settings).

Are mobile apps available in my language?

The Squarespace app is available in all supported languages, but you can only change the selected language on the computer. The Acuity Scheduling Admin mobile app and Acuity Scheduling Client mobile app are only available in English. 

Can I change the language of the Home menu news alerts?

No. The news alerts that appear over your profile picture in the Home menu are only available in English.

Is there a difference between the multiple options for a single language in language settings?

There aren’t noticeable differences between the options. However, choosing a specific country helps us consider more localized features in the future.