The TYPO3 Localization Team gathered in Düsseldorf for a full week during the TYPO3 Community Sprint Q4/2024 and made the TYPO3 extension, Crowdin, a reality. The extension provides an in-context feature which enables TYPO3 backend users to translate labels of the TYPO3 Core and extensions directly in the TYPO3 backend.

CMS Localization allows businesses to make an impact on a global scale. From culturally resonant copy, to streamlined content, and high-quality translations, discover how TYPO3 empowers brands to leave their mark.

Using software in your native language often makes a huge difference in feeling at home with what you're doing. TYPO3’s backend is no different. With the help of Crowdin, a cloud-based localization technology, all TYPO3 backend labels can be translated into any language.

TYPO3 supports the translation of its backend in any given language and has support for more than forty languages, each in its own state of completion. To better support the process of localization and to make it easier to add new languages to TYPO3’s backend, the localization team partnered with Crowdin, a localization tool designed to help teams translate and maintain their applications translation files.

Last year was marked by the revitalization of the Localization Team. We re-established regular meetings and started working on a number of issues, including decommissioning the old translation infrastructure with Pootle, which had become obsolete since the switch to Crowdin.

Join us in celebrating the 2023 World Arabic Language Day and learn about the intricacies and the properties of right-to-left content management, Arabic diacritics, and how TYPO3 can help you master them!

Crowdin has been our default translation server for quite some time. We have now decommissioned the infrastructure that supported the old Pootle translation server — here is how it impacts you.

Community member Abdulhamid Kwieder recently shared on the TYPO3 Slack that he has completed the translation of the entire content of the TYPO3 backend to the Arabic language.

The TYPO3 Extension Repository now includes the status of translations for extensions drawn from Crowdin. This is an exciting development because TYPO3 is an international community. Previously, it was difficult to find out the status of translation for particular extensions, and now it is publicly available for all users to see.

The multilingual backend has always been a great benefit of TYPO3. Whether you’re French, German, or English-speaking, having the editing and administrative user interface in a language you understand means you can work faster and more confidently. After a long history with Pootle, TYPO3 is moving on to Crowdin, to take translation to the next level.