What is the hreflang code for Bulgarian?

The hreflang / BCP-47 code for Bulgarian is "bg". Use it in hreflang tags and the attribute.

Does translating to Bulgarian change my layout?

Bulgarian text is +10–15% longer than English. Leave room in buttons and menus so translated text doesn't clip.

bgCyrillic script

How to translate WordPress to Bulgarian

Bulgarian (Български) reaches roughly ~8 millionspeakers. Here's what's actually involved in translating a WordPress site into it — the technical setup, the Bulgarian-specific gotchas, and the SEO.

Translate to Bulgarian with Gloty

hreflang

Native

Български

Direction

LTR

Text length

+10–15% longer than English

Plurals

Multiple forms; count form after numbers

“Welcome”

Добре дошли

What's specific to Bulgarian

Most of translating WordPress is the same in any language, but each language has quirks that break layouts or SEO if you ignore them. For Bulgarian:

Cyrillic script — confirm font coverage.
Unlike most Slavic languages, Bulgarian dropped noun cases and puts the definite article as a suffix — translations differ from Russian/Ukrainian.
Formality: ти (informal) vs. Вие (formal).

Step by step

1. Add Bulgarian as a target language

Set your source language, then add Bulgarian (bg) as a target. With an automatic plugin you don't create a translated copy of every page by hand — it translates on the fly.

2. Translate — automatically or by hand

Machine and AI translation get you Bulgarian coverage in minutes; review the strings that matter (navigation, calls to action, legal) for the right register. Estimate the cost with the translation cost calculator.

3. Serve it under a clean URL

Publish Bulgarian under a language-prefixed path like /bg/. Give pages readable slugs with the slug generator — important for Bulgarian, since Cyrillic characters otherwise become percent-encoded in URLs.

4. Get the Bulgarian SEO right

Add reciprocal hreflang pointing at your bg version (with x-default), set <html lang="bg">, and translate titles and meta descriptions. Build the tags with the hreflang generator and verify with the hreflang checker.

Doing it the easy way

Gloty translates your whole site into Bulgarian automatically with the AI provider you choose, stores it in your own database, and emits the correct hreflang and lang/dir attributes for you. See how it stacks up against Weglot and WPML, or read the pillar guide on making WordPress multilingual.

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