elGreek scriptHow to translate WordPress to Greek
Greek (Ελληνικά) reaches roughly ~13 millionspeakers. Here's what's actually involved in translating a WordPress site into it — the technical setup, the Greek-specific gotchas, and the SEO.
What's specific to Greek
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 Greek:
- Greek alphabet — confirm your theme fonts include Greek glyphs or text falls back.
- Modern Greek uses a single accent (monotonic); avoid old polytonic marks for web content.
- Formality: εσύ (informal) vs. εσείς (formal).
Step by step
1. Add Greek as a target language
Set your source language, then add Greek (el) 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 Greek 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 Greek under a language-prefixed path like /el/. Give pages readable slugs with the slug generator — important for Greek, since Greek characters otherwise become percent-encoded in URLs.
4. Get the Greek SEO right
Add reciprocal hreflang pointing at your el version (with x-default), set <html lang="el">, 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 Greek 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 Greek to your WordPress site in minutes — automatic AI translation, stored in your own database.