AI Translate vs Admin Columns

AI Translate automatically translates your entire website using advanced artificial intelligence. The plugin translates pages, posts, titles, menus, and more in real time while customers and bots visit your website in their perferred language. Use cache warming to improve performance for first visitors. What makes AI Translate unique? 🎯 Smart AI Analysis The AI has an option to analyze your website to understand what you do and how you communicate. This ensures translations are tailored to your brand, terminology, and tone of voice. ⚡ Intelligent Caching With intelligent caching, your site runs fast, even with many translations. Translations are automatically updated when you change original content, without extra API costs. 🌍 SEO-Friendly Automatic hreflang tags, translated URL slugs, and proper indexing ensure search engines can properly index all language versions of your site. Features 🌐 Automatic Translation – Pages, posts, and custom post types are automatically translated ✨ Smart AI – Generates a summary of your site for context-aware translations. 🌍 35+ Languages – Support for all major world languages and much more. ⚡ Fast Caching – Intelligent cache for better performance and lower costs. 🔄 Automatic Updates – Cache expires immediately of content when the original page changes . 🍪 Remembers Preferences – Saves each visitor’s language preference (via cookies). 🎨 Easy to Use – Simple language switcher in the left corner of your website. 🔧 Flexible – Choose your own AI model (OpenAI, Deepseek, or other APIs). 🔗 SEO-Friendly – Also translates URLs for better search engine optimization. 🔥 Cache-Warming – Have all pages pre-translated so they are immediately available to visitors. Configuration All plugin settings can be found under ‘AI Translate’ in your WordPress admin menu. API Settings 🔑 API Provider – Select a provider of your AI translation API (e.g. OpenAI) 🔐 API Key – Your API authentication key 🤖 Translation Model – Choose your preferred AI model Language Settings 🌍 Default Language – The main language of your website 🎯 Enabled Languages – Languages visible in the language switcher 🔍 Detectable Languages – Automatic translation on browser match, but not in switcher Cache Settings ⏱️ Cache Duration (days) – How long translated content stays cached 🗑️ Cache Management – Clear all cache, only transient cache, or cache per language 🔄 Automatic cache invalidation – Cache is only refreshed on content changes Advanced Settings 📄 Homepage Meta Description – Set a custom meta description that will be automatically translated. ✨ Auto-generate site context – Let the AI automatically analyze your site for better translations Usage After configuration, AI Translate automatically adds a language switcher to your website (default: bottom left). Visitors can select their preferred language; content is translated instantly or loaded from cache. Each visitor’s language preference is remembered for future visits. Cache 📁 Location – Translations are cached in /wp-content/uploads/ai-translate/cache/ 🧹 Auto-cleanup – Expired cache is automatically cleaned up 🔧 Manual clearing – Clear cache manually via plugin settings Recommended Model Selection 💡 OpenAI: gpt-5.4-mini Pretty good for most languages and reasonably priced. 💰 Deepseek: deepseek-chat – Slower, but more cost-effective. 🔧 OpenRouter: Select google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite which has a very good price/performance ratio. 💡 Groq: Select openai/gpt-oss-120b Extremely fast, pretty cheap and very good in translating. Gemini flash is the best price performance model available now. It is fast, support all languages and has low pricing. Development 🔗 Path-based language URLs for SEO 🚀 Support for more content types and translation improvements are in development ⚡ Caching and API optimization are continuously improved External Services AI Translate requires an API key from one of the supported providers: Data Handling 🔒 Only website content for translation is sent—no visitor IP or personal data 💾 All translations are cached locally; nothing is shared externally Requirements ✅ WordPress 6.2 or higher ✅ PHP 8 or higher 🔑 API key for OpenAI, Deepseek, or compatible service Provided by 🌐 NetCare

Admin Columns lets you customize and organize the columns displayed in the WordPress admin list tables for posts, pages, users, comments and media. Instead of the limited default list table, you get to display the information you actually need – like custom fields, featured images, taxonomies, file data and more. Trusted by 100,000+ WordPress sites worldwide. With a simple drag-and-drop interface you can: Add any column to posts, pages, users, media and comments Reorder and resize columns to match your workflow Choose from 200+ column types including custom fields, taxonomies and file data Display rich metadata such as images, dates, colors and relational fields Create clean overviews for even the most complex websites It works for any site from simple blogs to large WooCommerce stores. Why Admin Columns? Default WordPress list tables are limited. They often show only the title, author and date. Admin Columns turns them into useful management screens that show you what matters. Examples: See featured images, custom fields and taxonomies directly in the post list table Display media file size, dimensions or EXIF data View user metadata and roles in the users screen Keep track of large content libraries Popular use cases Admin Columns is used by developers, agencies and site owners to manage content more efficiently. Common setups: Managing WooCommerce products with price, SKU or stock columns Displaying ACF custom fields in post list tables Organizing large media libraries Reviewing SEO metadata from Yoast Organizing custom post types with the right columns Built for developers Admin Columns is open source and built to be extended. Use actions and filters to register custom column types, modify output or integrate with your own plugins. Full hooks and filters reference for custom integrations Register column configurations in PHP for version-controlled setups Designed to work alongside page builders, custom post type plugins and third-party extensions Explore the developer documentation. Admin Columns Pro Upgrade to Admin Columns Pro for sorting, filtering, inline editing and more. With Pro you can: Sort any column Filter content with stackable smart filters Inline editing – edit titles, custom fields, taxonomies and more directly from the list table Bulk editing – update multiple items at once Conditional formatting – color-code rows and cells based on rules Export to CSV Import/export column sets between sites or team members Save to PHP for version-controlled column configurations Admin Columns Pro also provides deep integrations with popular plugins: Advanced Custom Fields – display and edit all field types WooCommerce – product and order columns Yoast SEO – SEO score and metadata columns Toolset Types – custom fields and relationships Pods – Pods fields and content types Learn more about the additional features of Admin Columns Pro on our website: Upgrade to Admin Columns Pro Supported content types Admin Columns works with the following WordPress admin screens: Posts, Pages and Custom Post Types Users Media Library Comments Taxonomies (Pro) Custom field column Admin Columns allows you to display custom fields (post meta and user meta) directly in the admin list table. Supported field formats include: Color Date Images Number Text URL True/False Relational: Posts, Users and Media Docs & Support Is this your first time using Admin Columns? Check out our documentation and guides: Documentation Getting Started Developer documentation Need help? Please visit the Admin Columns support forums. Contribute Admin Columns is open source and community-driven. There are several ways to contribute: Translate: Help translate Admin Columns on WordPress.org or Pro translations on Transifex Report issues: Found a bug? Report it on GitHub Suggest features: Submit ideas to our public roadmap