Carrd - Integration / Setup

In this article, you will learn more about how to install Weglot on your Carrd website

Step 1: Create a Weglot account

The first thing you need to do is create an account to set up your multilingual website, manage your translations, and customize your settings depending on your needs. 

Once you’ve signed up, you’ll receive a validation email that takes you to the Weglot Dashboard and the setup page. 

Now, you need to choose a project name (e.g. your website name) and select the ‘Other’ option as 'Website Technology'. 

Step 2: Add your new languages

Now you need to indicate the original language of your website and the languages you want to translate it into.

After clicking on the "Next" button, you can indicate the URL of your website.

Step 3: Create your subdomains (important for multilingual SEO)

Here, you’ll create your new language subdomains, e.g. https://en.mywebsite/ (for the English version of a website). This involves connecting your DNS records, so you’ll need access to your domain name provider account. If you don't manage your own domain name (custom domain) but the Carrd one, please click on "connect Weglot to your website without it." and ignore step 3 of this guide.

Note: this example is using Gandi as a domain provider. Check out other subdomain/ DNS setups here or contact us if you need further help: support@weglot.com. 

In your Weglot account setup process, you will find your DNS entries, like on the screenshot below. (This example shows an English entry).

Go to your domain name provider account and locate the ‘DNS’ tab. Here, you’ll need to create new entries in the section that should be called something like ‘custom resource records’. 

Select CNAME as the ‘type’, enter your 2-letter language code in the ‘name’ section, and the record itself in the ‘data’ section. For instance, 'xxx.translate-cf.weglot.io'.

Click 'Save all changes' and then go back to your Weglot Dashboard. Click on the green ‘Check DNS’ button. This can sometimes take up to 10 minutes, so don’t be alarmed if the green tick doesn’t appear immediately next to your DNS records.

Step 4: Add your language switcher

The last step is to copy and paste a piece of code given to you in your Weglot account setup into your Carrd.co dashboard.

In your Carrd.co account, click on the "Edit this site" option:

Then, use the "Add an element" option on the top-right:

You can now choose the "Embed" option:

The next step is to paste the Weglot code into the "Code" section and click on "Done":

If you need help with these steps, don't hesitate to reach out to our support team at support@weglot.com.

Now go to your website, and you’ll see that we’ve added a language switcher in the bottom right corner. If you end up changing your mind, you can easily edit the design and position of the switcher in your Weglot Dashboard.

The last step is to use the switcher to change the language and finish the setup on Weglot's side. 

After automatic translations have been generated, you can still edit them.

We made an article to help you do it, you can see it here.