Translation of Statuspage UI and incidents

Question

I need to localize/translate the Statuspage UI and the incident content. I do not want to use localize.js because our company already has its own language resources, processes, and tools. What other ways are there (using the Statuspage API or other means) to localize the content and to allow users to switch languages from Statuspage.

Jesse Klein · Accepted Answer

Hello Jeremy,

This is Jesse from the Statuspage support team. Thanks for your question about alternatives to using Localize.js.

All Localize is doing is using JavaScript to manipulate the page text from one language into another so the alternative would be to do that manually using the custom HTML, CSS, and JS features.

I don't have any more details on how to accomplish this, mainly because customizations can be taken in so many directions and be accomplished in so many different ways. While I can't guarantee this will work for you, I found a jQuery plugin that can do translations:

https://github.com/tinoni/translate.js

This might be a good starting point as an alternative.

Hopefully, this helps you out!

Regards,
Jesse