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Glossary

What is Language Detection?

Auto-detecting visitor language from browser headers or IP — best used to suggest, never to force-redirect.

In more depth

Forced redirects break crawling and frustrate travelers. Show a banner suggestion and remember the choice.

Why it matters for your website

Understanding Language Detection helps you make better decisions when taking a WordPress site multilingual — from choosing URL structures and engines to controlling costs. Transxlate handles the mechanics (language URLs, lang attributes, caching, hreflang on Pro) so terms like this become settings, not engineering projects.

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