Using Gloty
Glossary
Since 1.10.0 The glossary is your list of terms a translation engine must not get creative with — brand names, product names, and technical vocabulary. Manage it on Gloty → Glossary.
What a glossary term does
Each term has one of two behaviours:
How matching works
The glossary matches whole strings, not words inside sentences. A rule applies when a captured string is exactly the term — a product title, a menu label, a button, a heading, a breadcrumb, a meta title. It does not rewrite the term where it appears inside a longer paragraph.
That covers the cases where a mangled brand name is most visible and most damaging: catalogue listings, navigation, page titles, and search snippets. For prose, review the affected paragraphs on Gloty → Translations and correct them by hand — those edits are then protected.
Two more details:
- Matching is case-insensitive by default. Turn on Case-sensitive match if only the exact capitalisation should count. Leave it off for most brands.
- Whitespace is normalised before matching. Surrounding spaces are trimmed and any run of spaces, tabs, or line breaks inside the string counts as a single space — so a term still matches when a theme pads or wraps it.
Applied at render time
Two consequences follow from this, both useful:
- Fixes are instant and retroactive. Adding a term corrects strings that were already translated badly — no re-translation, no waiting for a queue.
- Protected terms cost nothing. A string that matches a glossary term is never sent to the translation service, so it does not consume characters from your quota.
Glossary rules apply everywhere Gloty serves translations: page content, titles, interface strings, and SEO tags.
Adding a term
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Open the glossary
Go to Gloty → Glossary and click Add term.
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Enter the term exactly as it appears
Type it the way it is written on your site, including accents and punctuation —
Chanel N°5, notChanel No 5. -
Choose the behaviour
Never translate for verbatim, or Translate as… to fill in a value per target language. Blank languages stay verbatim.
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Set case sensitivity and a note
The optional note is for your team — why this rule exists, who approved the wording.
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Save
The rule takes effect on the next page render. Each term can be switched Active or inactive without deleting it.
One rule per term. Terms are unique after case folding and whitespace normalisation, so Acme and ACME are the same rule. Edit the existing entry rather than adding a variant.
What to put in it
| Good candidates | Why |
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| Brand and company names | Frequently "translated" into nonsense by machine engines, especially when they are ordinary words in some language. |
| Product and model names | Customers search for the exact string; a translated model name is unfindable. |
| Technical terms with a house translation | Use Translate as… so every page uses the approved wording rather than a per-batch guess. |
| People's names | Names should not be localised. |
Keep the list tight. It is a list of exceptions, not a dictionary — every entry is checked against every captured string.
Related
To exclude a whole region of the page from translation rather than a term, use Exclusion selectors in Settings. To correct wording inside paragraphs, edit the translation in the translations workspace.