With Transifex Live, you can publish translations (take translations live) at any time and make them available to your visitors without needing your engineering team to deploy anything.

Administrators and Project maintainers are the ones who can publish translations.

To publish translations:

When you open the Publish widget, next to already published languages, there is an indicator confirming which languages are live. This indicator will be shown in green:

Whenever an already published language is deselected to be removed from the list of published languages, the system will return a message informing you that the specific language will no longer be accessible by your end users in your web app/website:

Your translations will typically be visible on your site in under a minute or less.

Repeat the steps above to update translations or add additional languages to your site. It’s important to note that you should check all the languages you want to show to your visitors each time you hit publish.

For example, if you initially published French and German translations and then added Spanish translations, you should have all three languages checked when you launch Spanish or update translations for any of those languages.

To unpublish a language, uncheck and publish it to your production or staging site again.

By default, Transifex will place a language picker (note: you need to publish at least one translation language) at the bottom left corner of your website. This lets your visitors select the language they’d like to see your website in. (Note that by default, Transifex Live auto-detects your browser’s locale and displays your site in that language if translations are available.)

You can change the location of the picker by going to Settings in the sidebar and selecting a different language picker position for your production and staging sites.

If you’d like to customize the location and appearance of the language picker, you can do so by following the instructions here.

If you'd like to disable the Language Picker, then you can follow the steps below:

If you translate your website into languages that read from right to left (RTL), you can set Transifex Live to display those languages correctly for your RTL visitors.
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To do this:

When you publish translations, your translation text is uploaded to our Content Delivery Network (CDN) hosted on AWS CloudFront and then served to visitors when they come to your site. Using a CDN ensures both high uptime and low latency.

One significant benefit to using Transifex Live (versus a proxy solution, for example) is that our CDN only serves the translated text, not your site itself. This means you don’t give up control of your site to a third party, and sensitive information like credit card numbers never passes through our servers.