Wix Multilingual: Customizing Images per Language

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Make your site's images more relatable by customizing them based on your visitors' language. For example, for a bookstore site, you can display the book of the month with a different cover design for each language.

Important:

You can customize images per language in the Wix Editor. However, it is currently not possible to customize images per language in the Studio Editor.

a screen video of changing the language in a live wix site and the image changes with it

Before you begin:

Add and set up Wix Multilingual on your site.

In this article, learn how to:

Customizing images per language

Choose to display a different image for each language or adjust images using the Wix Photo Studio. Translate the alt text for your images and set what happens when visitors click on an image.

Important:

You can customize only individual images per language. See FAQs to learn more.
You can change the image behaviors (click actions and links) only in the Wix Editor. Currently, it is not possible to do this in the Studio Editor.

Wix Editor

Dashboard

Go to your editor.
Click the Switch languages drop-down menu at the top of the Wix Editor.

A screenshot of clicking the Switch Languages drop-down at the top of the Wix Editor.

Select the language you want to edit.
Click Pages & Menu on the left side of the editor.
Select the page you want to edit.
Select the relevant image on your page.
Click Edit Translation.
Set up your image for the language:
- Change the image: Click Change to select a different image for the secondary language.
- Change the image behaviors:
  - Select an option under When image is clicked.
  - Select an option under What does this link to?
- Change the alt text:
  - Enter an image description under What's in the image?
  - Enter tooltip text under Does this image have a tooltip?

a screenshot of changing the image when editing a multilingual wix site

Tip:

If you've specified different images for each language, changing the main language image won't affect the others. However, if an image hasn't been set for a specific language, updating the main language image will change it for all languages.

Customizing galleries per language

Customize your site's galleries for each of your languages. You can replace existing images, add more images, and change their order. Additionally, you can adjust the settings for each image in your gallery, including alt text, description, and the image link.

Important:

You can customize the following galleries: Grid Galleries, Slider Galleries, Honeycomb (diamonds and triangle), Animated Slide, Freestyle, 3d Slideshow, 3d Carousel.
Learn how to translate the Pro Gallery.

a screenshot of changing gallery images when editing a multilingual wix site

To customize galleries per language:

Go to your editor.
Click the Switch languages drop-down menu at the top of the Wix Editor.

Select the language you want to edit.
Click Pages & Menu on the left side of the editor.
Select the page you want to edit.
Select the relevant gallery on your page.
Click Edit Translation.
Set up your gallery for the language:
- Click + Add Images to add different images.
- Click Replace Image to select a different image.
- Drag and drop images to reorder them.
- Change the Image Info on the right:
  - Enter a Title.
  - Enter a Description.
  - Add a Link.
Click Done.