daLatin scriptHow to translate WordPress to Danish
Danish (Dansk) reaches roughly ~6 millionspeakers. Here's what's actually involved in translating a WordPress site into it — the technical setup, the Danish-specific gotchas, and the SEO.
What's specific to Danish
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 Danish:
- Letters æ, ø, å are distinct — ensure fonts and sorting handle them.
- Closely related to Norwegian and Swedish, but not interchangeable — don't reuse translations across them.
- Formality: du (informal) is standard; De is very formal/rare.
Step by step
1. Add Danish as a target language
Set your source language, then add Danish (da) 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 Danish 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 Danish under a language-prefixed path like /da/. Give pages readable slugs with the slug generator.
4. Get the Danish SEO right
Add reciprocal hreflang pointing at your da version (with x-default), set <html lang="da">, 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 Danish 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 Danish to your WordPress site in minutes — automatic AI translation, stored in your own database.