diff --git a/docs/guides-translation.md b/docs/guides-translation.md
index 67bb33533e6a..fca3ab50f3ba 100644
--- a/docs/guides-translation.md
+++ b/docs/guides-translation.md
@@ -93,6 +93,41 @@ The script will include text from the following places:
 * header link `label` strings in `siteConfig.js`
 * strings wrapped in the `<translate>` tag in any `.js` files inside `pages`
 
+### Custom Translation Strings
+
+If you want to add additional custom translation strings, or override any of the strings that get produced by the script that creates the `website/i18n/en.json` file, you can add a `website/data/custom-translation-strings.json` file. The file should have form of:
+
+```json
+{
+  "localized-strings": {
+    "id": "string",
+    "id2": "string2"
+  },
+  "pages-strings" : {
+    "id3": "string3",
+    "id4": "string4"
+  }
+}
+```
+
+where `localized-strings` represent strings in your documentation content and `pages-strings` represents metadata in your documentation (e.g., title, links, etc).
+
+Here is an example:
+
+```json
+{
+  "_comment": "This file is used to provide custom strings for translations, including overriding defaults",
+  "localized-strings": {
+    "translation": "Translations and Localization"
+  },
+  "pages-strings" : {
+        "Help Translate|recruit community translators for your project": "Help Us Translate"
+  }
+}
+```
+
+See the generated `website/i18n/en.json` for an example.
+
 ## How Strings Get Translated
 
 Docusaurus itself does not do any translation from one language to another. Instead, it integrates [Crowdin](https://crowdin.com/) to upload translations and then downloads the appropriately translated files from Crowdin.
diff --git a/lib/write-translations.js b/lib/write-translations.js
index 4bbfc73b722a..c7826c428bce 100755
--- a/lib/write-translations.js
+++ b/lib/write-translations.js
@@ -20,13 +20,13 @@ const babylon = require('babylon');
 const traverse = require('babel-traverse').default;
 const sidebars = require(CWD + '/sidebars.json');
 
-let currentTranslations = {
+let customTranslations = {
   'localized-strings': {},
   'pages-strings': {},
 };
-if (fs.existsSync(CWD + '/i18n/en.json')) {
-  currentTranslations = JSON.parse(
-    fs.readFileSync(CWD + '/i18n/en.json', 'utf8')
+if (fs.existsSync(CWD + '/data/custom-translation-strings.json')) {
+  customTranslations = JSON.parse(
+    fs.readFileSync(CWD + '/data/custom-translation-strings.json', 'utf8')
   );
 }
 
@@ -158,11 +158,11 @@ function execute() {
     'Translate';
   translations['pages-strings'] = Object.assign(
     translations['pages-strings'],
-    currentTranslations['pages-strings']
+    customTranslations['pages-strings']
   );
   translations['localized-strings'] = Object.assign(
     translations['localized-strings'],
-    currentTranslations['localized-strings']
+    customTranslations['localized-strings']
   );
   writeFileAndCreateFolder(
     CWD + '/i18n/en.json',
diff --git a/website/data/custom-translation-strings.json b/website/data/custom-translation-strings.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..4f663211b775
--- /dev/null
+++ b/website/data/custom-translation-strings.json
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+{
+  "_comment": "This file is used to provide custom strings for translations, including overriding defaults",
+  "localized-strings": {
+    "translation": "Translations and Localization"
+  },
+  "pages-strings" : {
+        "Help Translate|recruit community translators for your project": "Help Us Translate"
+  }
+}