# Polylang

You can activate the **Polylang settings for media translation.** This setting will allow you to:

* Translate file texts
* Operate media library differently for all languages.

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**(1).** In other to **translate media file Texts** like; titles, alternative text, captions, descriptions etc. **Click edit** and translate the Texts into different languages by **clicking on the plus (+) signs** against each languages as shown in the GIF below:

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**(2).** To, operate **the same media library** for all your activated languages, select the switcher option **'Show all languages'**.\
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To operate a **different media library** for different languages, select **the languages one after the other** and for each, you can perform actions separately like; adding files, arranging files etc.

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If you **do not activate Polylang's media translation** settings, it means you will automatically **have the same media library for all** your website's languages and you **cannot translate file texts** for different languages too.
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