viLatin scriptHow to translate WordPress to Vietnamese
Vietnamese (Tiếng Việt) reaches roughly ~85 millionspeakers. Here's what's actually involved in translating a WordPress site into it — the technical setup, the Vietnamese-specific gotchas, and the SEO.
What's specific to Vietnamese
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 Vietnamese:
- Latin script but with dense stacked diacritics (tone + vowel marks like ế, ượ) — needs a font with full Vietnamese coverage and enough line-height.
- Mostly monosyllabic; text length is manageable.
- Formality: Pronoun choice encodes relationship/age — nuanced.
Step by step
1. Add Vietnamese as a target language
Set your source language, then add Vietnamese (vi) 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 Vietnamese 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 Vietnamese under a language-prefixed path like /vi/. Give pages readable slugs with the slug generator.
4. Get the Vietnamese SEO right
Add reciprocal hreflang pointing at your vi version (with x-default), set <html lang="vi">, 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 Vietnamese 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 Vietnamese to your WordPress site in minutes — automatic AI translation, stored in your own database.