Translating a website into Italian, a market of around 60 million native speakers, means getting a working version live fast, then handling what actually decides whether it reads naturally: agreement, character limits on your titles, and a human pass on the pages that carry the most risk.
Set up Weglot
- Install: a JavaScript snippet or a dedicated plugin (WordPress, Shopify, or a custom-built platform).
- Pick a URL structure: subdirectory (
yoursite.com/it/) or subdomain (it.yoursite.com). - Let it scan and translate: Weglot detects your text, images, and metadata and runs them through DeepL, Google Translate, or Microsoft Translator. See the Weglot Academy and Weglot’s pricing.
- Edit and set SEO: adjust translations in the visual editor, and confirm hreflang tags and translated URL slugs are in place.
That covers getting an Italian version live. It does not fix the agreement a machine gets wrong, or catch the terms it mistranslates at scale, which is where AI Glot comes in: a separate tool for the exported file, not a Weglot plugin.
Why teams use AI Glot for Italian localization:
Three things matter once the Italian version stops being a homepage and becomes a catalogue.
- Italian copy comes back longer than the English it replaced. That is normal, and it breaks page titles and meta descriptions that were already close to their character limit. You can add a batch instruction such as “keep every title under 60 characters” and it is applied while each string is written, so you are not trimming hundreds of titles by hand afterwards.
- Agreement is where a fixed term stops being a fixed term. Italian articles and adjectives agree in gender and number, so a glossary entry cannot simply be dropped into a sentence unchanged. AI Glot receives your glossary as meaning rather than as find and replace, so the agreed term arrives in the form the sentence needs.
- Spend the Italian budget where the risk is. A native Italian translator for your homepage and your legal pages is a few hundred words and worth paying for. Your product catalogue and your blog archive are almost all of the words and almost none of the risk, and that is the part to run in bulk.
The round trip
- Export your Italian translations from Weglot as CSV.
- Run the file through AI Glot: describe which columns to translate and any character limits, and IDs, URLs, and prices stay untouched.
- Re-import the enriched CSV back into Weglot.
The same round trip works when new pages are added later: export just the empty rows, run them through AI Glot, re-import.
Conclusion
Weglot gets an Italian version of your site live fast. Keeping agreement and terminology consistent once you have more than a handful of pages is what a glossary and a second pass through AI Glot are for. Sign up for free to try it on your own export.