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Board language

Set the language your board's public interface speaks.

Written by Traian

Your public board ships in English, but every built-in string on it (buttons, filters, labels, empty states, emails aside) can be translated or reworded from one settings page. You can also set the board's language tag for browsers and search engines, and flip the whole layout to right-to-left for languages like Arabic or Hebrew. Your admin dashboard stays in English regardless.

Open the language settings

  1. In the sidebar, click Settings (at the bottom), then click the Language card.

  2. You land on the Language page with two cards: Board language and Translate board text.

The Language settings page with the language tag, right-to-left switch, and translatable board text

Set the language tag and text direction

  1. In the Board language card, type a language code into Language tag: en, fr, de, es, ar, and so on. Regional variants like pt-BR work too. This sets the board's HTML lang attribute, which browsers use for spell-check and translation prompts and search engines use to understand your audience. It does not translate anything by itself. Leaving it empty saves it back as en.

  2. If your language reads right to left, turn on the Right-to-left switch. This mirrors the entire board layout.

  3. Click Save language. You should see a Language saved confirmation, and your public board reflects the change on the next load.

Translate the board text

The Translate board text card lists every built-in string, organized into groups that mirror the board: Header & navigation, Search & filters, Job list, Job card, Job detail, Blog, Pricing, Account & sign-in, Job alerts, and more. Each row shows the English default on the left and an input on the right.

  1. Type your translation into the input next to any string. A field left blank keeps the English default (shown as the input's placeholder), so you never have to fill everything; partial translation is fine.

  2. Use the Search text to translate box to jump to a specific string. It matches the English text as well as your translations.

  3. Click Save translations at the bottom of the card. You should see a Translations saved confirmation.

This is also handy in English: if you would rather say "Companies" than "Employers", or "Openings" than "Jobs", override just those strings and leave the rest alone. Entering text identical to the English default counts as no override, and clearing a field returns that string to the default. Each translation can be up to 500 characters.

Auto-translate

If your board has the Auto-translate button next to the search box, you can machine-translate the whole catalog in one pass:

  1. First set a non-English Language tag in the card above; the button is disabled while the tag is English, and clicking it too early shows "Set a language tag other than English above first".

  2. Click Auto-translate. If you already have translations, you are asked to confirm replacing them.

  3. Every field fills with a machine translation in your board language. Nothing is saved yet: review the results, fix anything awkward (job-board terms like "Remote" or "Full-time" deserve a human check), then click Save translations.

What this page does not translate

  • Your own content. Jobs, blog posts, custom pages, category names, and any text you set in the visual builder appear exactly as you wrote them. Write them in your board's language.

  • The admin dashboard. It stays in English for you and your team.

Multi-language audiences: one board per language

A board speaks one language at a time; there is no per-visitor language switcher. If you serve, say, both French and English audiences, the clean setup is one board per language, each with its own translated strings, its own jobs, and its own domain or subdomain (for example jobs.example.com and emplois.example.com). Each board then presents search engines with a single consistent language, which indexes better than a mixed-language page ever would.

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