thThai scriptHow to translate WordPress to Thai
Thai (ไทย) reaches roughly ~60 millionspeakers. Here's what's actually involved in translating a WordPress site into it — the technical setup, the Thai-specific gotchas, and the SEO.
What's specific to Thai
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 Thai:
- Thai script has no spaces between words — line-breaking is by algorithm, so avoid CSS that assumes spaces.
- Stacked tone marks and vowels need extra line-height or they clip.
- Formality: Politeness particles vary; register matters.
Step by step
1. Add Thai as a target language
Set your source language, then add Thai (th) 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 Thai 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 Thai under a language-prefixed path like /th/. Give pages readable slugs with the slug generator — important for Thai, since Thai characters otherwise become percent-encoded in URLs.
4. Get the Thai SEO right
Add reciprocal hreflang pointing at your th version (with x-default), set <html lang="th">, 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 Thai 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 Thai to your WordPress site in minutes — automatic AI translation, stored in your own database.