hrLatin scriptHow to translate WordPress to Croatian
Croatian (Hrvatski) reaches roughly ~5 millionspeakers. Here's what's actually involved in translating a WordPress site into it — the technical setup, the Croatian-specific gotchas, and the SEO.
What's specific to Croatian
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 Croatian:
- Latin script with č, ć, š, ž, đ — distinct from Serbian, which is often Cyrillic; don't treat them as one.
- Case-heavy; handle counts through the translator, not string concatenation.
- Formality: ti (informal) vs. Vi (formal).
Step by step
1. Add Croatian as a target language
Set your source language, then add Croatian (hr) 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 Croatian 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 Croatian under a language-prefixed path like /hr/. Give pages readable slugs with the slug generator.
4. Get the Croatian SEO right
Add reciprocal hreflang pointing at your hr version (with x-default), set <html lang="hr">, 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 Croatian 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.
Add Croatian to your WordPress site in minutes — automatic AI translation, stored in your own database.