The custom content feature is developed as a work-around for specific content that can not be translated regularly out of the box. It's especially useful for the translation of third-party apps like page builder, review, search apps and more. Or other special cases where the translation is not natively supported by Shopify. Check out our third party-app integration list here.


Due to security restrictions, Custom Content translations cannot be applied in the checkout or notifications.



Create a Custom Content


To create a Custom Content, simply go to the Custom section in langify, and then:


  1. Choose the subsection.
  2. Create the Custom content
  3. Add your translations and save.


Hint: Use the browser's Inspect tool by right-clicking on the text you want to translate and then selecting "Inspect”. This helps to find the correct text to create the custom content. Each text string needs its own Custom Content entry.




If you haven't added any Custom Contents in this section, then you'll find a "Add new Custom Content" button.

Otherwise, click on the three-dot in the upper right to find this option:



Subsections


The additional subsections are useful for better overview and manageability, as well as functionality.

Generally, you can add a Custom Content in the "Global" subsection. If instead you're looking to translate a text that only appears on your product pages, then you can add the Custom Content in the "Product Pages" subsection.


Global - applied to all pages of your store

Frontpage - homepage only

Product Pages - all product pages

Collection Pages - all collection pages

Blog Pages - all blog pages

Article Pages - all articles

Custom Pages - all custom pages

System Pages - all other pages (e.g. cart page, 404, account)


If you're not sure what kind of subsection to use for your text, you can check the URL of the page where the text appears.

If the URL contains /products/ then this is a Product page. If it contains only /collections/ then it is a Collection page.


Important: Please only use custom content should the regular translation not work. If you have several hundred Custom Contents this can slow down the loading speed of the pages.


Individual Custom Content translations


You can set up Custom Content for a specific item, so the translation is applied only to this item.

  1. Click on the item in langify, e.g. a product, collection or page
  2. Scroll down to the "Custom" tab
  3. and add the content



Limitations


There are unfortunately rare cases where langify cannot translate the content. This can for example happen if the content is loaded via an iframe or shadowroot into the page that fetches the content from an outside source.


Due to security restrictions, Custom Content translations cannot be applied in the checkout pages or notifications.


When using Custom Content, please make sure that langify is published correctly to your theme.


If your Custom Content does not translate and you're not sure why, just let us know at support@langify-app.com and we will take care of the issue!