Did you know? — What happens when you ignore strings or pages in Transifex Live?

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Controlling which content gets translated is an important part of managing multilingual websites. Transifex Live allows you to exclude individual strings or entire pages using the Ignore action. Although both options remove content from the translation workflow, each one behaves differently — and understanding these differences helps you maintain a clean, accurate, and efficient translation environment.

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Ignoring a string — what actually happens?

When you choose to ignore a specific string in Transifex Live, you are telling the system that this text should not be translated or served as a translated version anywhere it appears.

Effects of ignoring a string

• The string is moved to the Ignored tab.

• It is removed from the editor and no longer appears for translation, review, or approval.

• If the same string appears on multiple pages, all instances are ignored, and translations for all occurrences stop being delivered.

• Exception: If the string uses a tx-string-group, grouped instances are treated as separate and will not be ignored unless you ignore them individually.

For example, let’s say you have an unordered list with the same string multiple times:

<ul> 
    <li>How are you</li> 
    <li>How are you</li>
    <li>How are you</li>
    <li>How are you</li> 
    <li>How are you</li> 
</ul>

In the above list, the string appears five times, and Transifex will create a single instance with five occurrences. But when you use the tx-string-group like in the example above things schange:

<ul> 
    <li tx-string-group="mygroup">How are you</li> 
    <li >How are you</li> 
    <li tx-string-group="mygroup">How are you</li> 
    <li >How are you</li>
    <li tx-string-group="othergroup">How are you</li> 
</ul>

For this list, Transifex will create three instances of this string:

• The first instance will have two occurrences (the first and third

• elements) that belongs to mygroup.

• The second instance will have two occurrences (the second and fourth

• elements) with no group name.

• The third instance will have one occurrence (the fifth

• element only) that belongs to othergroup.

How to ignore a string (Step-by-step)

1. Open your website with the Transifex Live preview.

2. Hover over the string you want to ignore.

3. Click the Transifex Live overlay to open the string’s details.

4. Select Ignore.

5. The string moves automatically to the Ignored tab and disappears from your translation list.

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Ignoring a page using Live filters — how it behaves

Ignoring a full page lets you exclude entire sections of your site from translation. This is managed in the Live Filter settings, where you specify URLs to ignore.

Effects of ignoring a page

• All approved strings that originate from that page are removed from the Approved list and from the editor view.

• If a string appears on multiple pages, it is not removed entirely — only its translation on the ignored page is not served.

• When users visit the ignored page, translations do not load, and the page displays its original-language content.

How to ignore a page (Step-by-step)

1. Go to your Transifex Project > Live.

2. Navigate to Settings > Filters.

3. Add the URL (or a URL pattern) of the page you want to ignore. For example,

4. Save your changes.

5. The page will stop receiving translations immediately.

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How these two actions work together

Ignoring strings and ignoring pages both provide control, but in different ways:

• Ignore string affects the string everywhere it appears, unless it’s part of a grouped set.

• Ignore page affects only the translations on that specific page, while keeping the string available for translation elsewhere.

Both features help you avoid unnecessary translation work, maintain brand consistency, and focus your translation budget where it matters most.