# Website & App Localization Guides | Vitra.ai > Localize websites, apps and software without losing search visibility or breaking files. Guides to language URLs, CMSs, strings and release checks. **Canonical URL**: https://www.vitra.ai/blog/topics/website-app-localization **Source**: This is the Markdown rendering of https://www.vitra.ai/blog/topics/website-app-localization, generated at build time from that page. --- Practical guides · 9 selected articles # Website & App Localization Guides The translation should fit the interface and the release process. For a website, readers need a language URL they can find and share. For an app, the strings need to work in the screen, not just in a spreadsheet. Learn it. Try it. Review it. A clear path from question to finished work. 01 Understand 02 Prepare 03 Review ## Start here Follow the steps in order, or open the guide that answers today's question. 01 ### Choose a language and URL strategy Decide which market the page serves, how people switch languages and how each version will be found. Changing visible text alone does not answer those questions. [Internationalization vs Localization↗](https://www.vitra.ai/general/internationalization-vs-localization)[Multilingual Sitemaps & hreflang: A Practical Guide↗](https://www.vitra.ai/general/multilingual-sitemaps) 02 ### Work with the content system you have WordPress pages, a headless CMS and a React app have different extraction and release paths. Pick the approach that leaves the site maintainable. [How to Translate a WordPress Site: 3 Ways Compared↗](https://www.vitra.ai/general/how-to-translate-a-wordpress-site)[Headless CMS Localization Patterns↗](https://www.vitra.ai/general/headless-cms-localization) 03 ### Test the page and the file Check placeholders, plural forms, links and right-to-left layouts. Review the actual checkout or onboarding screen before calling the release ready. [How to Translate Android strings.xml Files Correctly↗](https://www.vitra.ai/general/translate-android-strings-xml)[Testing a Localized Website Before Launch↗](https://www.vitra.ai/general/localized-website-testing) ## Keep reading [5 min readHow to Translate a WordPress Site: 3 Ways ComparedPlugin, proxy or manual duplication. Each puts the translated content in a different place, and that decides your SEO and your maintenance forever.Read the guide ↗](https://www.vitra.ai/general/how-to-translate-a-wordpress-site)[4 min readHow to Translate a Next.js Site for Search EnginesNext.js is the easy case, because it renders on the server. The work is in routing, metadata and getting hreflang emitted correctly for most banks.Read the guide ↗](https://www.vitra.ai/general/translate-a-nextjs-site)[4 min readHow to Translate iOS .strings and .stringsdict FilesTwo file types, one job. Strings handles the simple cases and stringsdict handles plurals, which is where most iOS localizations fall short as well.Read the guide ↗](https://www.vitra.ai/general/translate-ios-strings-file)[4 min readRTL Layouts: Designing for Arabic and HebrewRight-to-left is a layout change, not a translation one. What mirrors, what must not, and the details that give away a flipped design to a native reader.Read the guide ↗](https://www.vitra.ai/general/rtl-layout-localization) Free working templates ## Turn the guidance into a handoff. Use a worked example, edit the details and take the file into your next review. No signup required. [Translation Brief Template↗](https://www.vitra.ai/templates/translation-brief)[Localization QA Checklist↗](https://www.vitra.ai/templates/localization-qa-checklist) A useful question Does website translation make a page rank in another country? Not automatically. Useful local content, crawlable language URLs, accurate metadata and internal links all matter. Language annotations help describe versions; they do not guarantee indexing or rankings. Put it into practice ## Explore software localization Keep website, app and structured-content translation connected to terminology, context and review. 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