Glossary
What is Text Expansion?
The tendency of translations to be longer than the source — German, French and Russian commonly run 20–35% longer than English.
In more depth
Design with expansion headroom: flexible buttons, wrapping labels and no fixed-height text containers.
Why it matters for your website
Understanding Text Expansion 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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