csLatin scriptHow to translate WordPress to Czech
Czech (Čeština) reaches roughly ~11 millionspeakers. Here's what's actually involved in translating a WordPress site into it — the technical setup, the Czech-specific gotchas, and the SEO.
What's specific to Czech
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 Czech:
- Rich diacritics with the háček (č, š, ž, ř) — ř in particular needs proper font support.
- Heavy noun declension; like Polish, handle counts with the translator rather than concatenating numbers.
- Formality: ty (informal) vs. vy (formal).
Step by step
1. Add Czech as a target language
Set your source language, then add Czech (cs) 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 Czech 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 Czech under a language-prefixed path like /cs/. Give pages readable slugs with the slug generator.
4. Get the Czech SEO right
Add reciprocal hreflang pointing at your cs version (with x-default), set <html lang="cs">, 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 Czech 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 Czech to your WordPress site in minutes — automatic AI translation, stored in your own database.