TranslatePress – Translate Multilingual sites with AI Translation vs WP Multilang – Translation and Multilingual Plugin

Experience a better way to translate your WordPress site and go multilingual, directly from the front-end using a visual translation interface. The built-in AI translation lets you translate automatically, then refine anything visually. TranslatePress is a WordPress translation plugin that anyone can use. The interface allows you to easily translate the entire page at once, including output from shortcodes, forms and page builders. It also works out of the box with WooCommerce. Built the WordPress way, TranslatePress – Multilingual is a GPL and self hosted translation plugin, meaning you’ll own all your translations, forever. It’s the fastest way to create a bilingual or multilingual site. Multilingual & Translation Features Translate all your website content directly from the front-end, in a friendly user interface (translations are displayed in real-time). Fully compatible with all themes and plugins Live preview of your translated pages, as you edit them. Automatic AI translation support through TranslatePress AI Free, with a 2,000 AI words limit. Use our free Website Word Count to find how many words your website contains. Integrates with Google Translate, allowing you to set up unlimited automatic translations using your own Google API key. Fully customizable language switcher that you can display as a menu item, a floating dropdown, or place anywhere else using the Language Switcher block, or the [language-switcher] shortcode. Image translation support, for translating images, sliders and other media. Support for both manual and automatic translation Ability to translate dynamic strings (gettext) added by WordPress, plugins and themes. Translate larger html blocks by merging strings into translation blocks. Editorial control allowing you to publish your language only when all your translations are done Conditional display content shortcode based on language [trp_language language=”en_US”] English content only [/trp_language] Possibility to edit gettext strings from themes and plugins from English to English, without adding another language. Basically a string-replace functionality. Translate only certain paths and exclude content from being translated Translation Block feature in which you can translate multiple html elements together Native Gutenberg support, so you can easily translate Gutenberg blocks Out of the box WooCommerce compatibility Use our FREE Website Translation tool/widget to browse any website into your own language. Note: this plugin uses the Google Translation API to translate the strings on your site. This feature can be enabled or disabled according to your preferences. Users with administrator rights have access to the following settings: select default language of the website and one translation language, for bilingual sites choose whether language switcher should display languages in their native names or English name force custom links to open in current language enable or disable url subdirectory for the default language enable automatic translation via Google Translate Powerful Translation Add-ons TranslatePress – Multilingual has a range of premium Add-ons that allow you to extend the power of this WordPress translation plugin: Pro Add-ons (available in the premium versions only) Full TranslatePress AI access – automatically translate your entire website without extra platforms to sign up for, API keys, and additional translation costs. Each premium version includes a set number of AI translated words you can use to instantly translate your site, saving you both time and money. Extra Languages – allows you to add an unlimited number of translation languages, with the possibility to publish languages later after you complete the translation SEO Pack – lets you translate meta information (like page title, description, url slug, image alt tag, Twitter and Facebook Social Graph tags & more) for boosting your multilingual SEO and increase traffic. Works with all popular SEO plugins. Different Domain per Language – assign a different domain to each language you add (e.g. domain.de, domain.es) and improve international SEO by creating a fully local experience for your visitors Translator Accounts – create or allow existing users to translate the site without admin rights Browse as User Role – view and translate content that is visible only to a particular user role Navigation Based on Language – configure and display different menu items for different languages Automatic User Language Detection – redirect first time visitors to their preferred language based on their browser settings or IP address DeepL Automatic Translation – The DeepL Automatic Translation add-on lets you automatically translate your website through the DeepL API Keyboard Shortcuts CTRL ( ⌘ ) + S – Save translation for the currently editing strings CTRL ( ⌘ ) + ALT + Z – Discard all changes for the currently editing strings CTRL ( ⌘ ) + ALT + → (Right Arrow) – Navigate to next string CTRL ( ⌘ ) + ALT + ← (Left Arrow) – Navigate to previous string Website translatepress.com Documentation Visit TranslatePress WordPress Translation plugin documentation page Add-ons Add-ons Demo Site You can test out TranslatePress – Multilingual plugin by visiting our demo site External Services This plugin connects to the TranslatePress AI translation service to perform automatic translations. Data sent includes page text, license key, site URL, and language settings. This may be triggered by front-end page visits, not just admin actions. If you opt in, the plugin sends limited diagnostic and configuration data to Cozmoslabs.com to help improve the product. Terms & Conditions: https://translatepress.com/terms-conditions/ Privacy Policy: https://translatepress.com/privacy-policy/ If you choose to use Google Translate or DeepL as your translation engine and provide your own API key, content from your site will be sent to those services for translation. This may also be triggered by front-end page visits. Google Translate Terms of Service: https://cloud.google.com/terms/ Google Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy DeepL Terms of Service: https://www.deepl.com/en/pro-license DeepL Privacy Policy: https://www.deepl.com/en/privacy The plugin requests translation files of other plugins hosted on WordPress.org. Select2: https://github.com/select2/select2

WP Multilang is a multilingual plugin for WordPress. Translations of post types, taxonomies, meta fields, options, text fields in miltimedia files, menus, titles and text fields in widgets. Home | Help & Tech Support | Documentation | Premium Features New Features of the plugin WP Multilang Support full site editor for block based themes Support block based widgets Support different feature image for each language Support Smart Custom Fields Plugin Auto Translation ( available in premium version ) – View Tutorial Support URL Slug Translation ( available in premium version ) – View Tutorial Support Base Translation ( available in premium version ) – View Tutorial Export and import content in XLIFF or xml format to translate outside Activate Multilingual Support for Post Types Support Auto URL Slug Translation ( available in premium version ) – View Tutorial Features of the plugin WP Multilang 100% free. Translation at PHP. Compatible with REST. Support configuration for translate multidimensional arrays in options, meta fields, post content. Support multisite. Support WordPress in sub-folder. Separate menu items, posts, terms, widgets, comments per language. Many filters for dynamic applying translation settings. No duplicate posts, terms, menus, widgets. No sub-domain for each language version. No additional tables in database. Possibility set many languages with one localization. For example, for localization in the region. Possibility to set custom locale for html(If installed locale is en_US, you can set locale like: en, en-UK, en-AU etc. Without installation another localization) Possibility for add new languages for any user with capability manage_options. Exist the role “Translator” for editing posts, terms. It can not publish or delete. No limits by languages or by possibilities. WP Multilang compatible with plugins Elementor ( available in premium version ) – View Tutorial Divi Builder ( available in premium version ) – View Tutorial Bricks Builder ( available in premium version ) – View Tutorial ACF, ACF Pro WooCommerce WooCommerce Customizer Gutenberg Yoast Seo SEOPress Contact Form 7 (added mail tag [_language] for send user language in mail) WPBakery Visual Composer Page Builder by SiteOrigin NextGEN Gallery All in One SEO Pack MailChimp for WordPress Newsletter Maps Builder Max Mega Menu MasterSlider WP-PageNavi BuddyPress Meta Slider TablePress Download Monitor (Redefine templates for links in your theme and translate link texts) Better Search Rank Math SEO (thanks for @pratikmts) WPGraphQL (Add lang to the query parameters in URL. Eg: lang=en) Smart Custom Fields Team – Team Members Showcase Plugin Schema & Structured Data for WP & AMP Forminator Forms Gravity Forms Ultimate Member Form Oxygen Builder ( available in premium version ) Internal Link Juicer Strong Testimonials Fluent Forms Advance Woocommerce Support Send emails in customer’s selected language REST API Support Import and export products in customer’s selected language Translate products (simple products, variable products, grouped products), categories, tags, global attributes Cart synchronization across multiple languages Manage translation settings via json. Add in the root of your theme or plugin file wpm-config.json. Sample configurations can be viewed in config files in folder ‘configs’ in root the plugin. Configuration is updated after switching theme, enable or update any plugins. The plugin has filters for dynamic application configuration for translate. For turn off translation, set null into the desired configuration. For example, you must turn off translation for a post type post. There are two ways: In json. Create in root of a theme or a plugin file wpm-config.json with: { “post_types”: { “post”: null } } Through the filter. Add in functions.php add_filter( ‘wpm_post_post_config’, ‘__return_null’ ); To enable translation pass an empty array in php array() or empty object in json {}. Supports translation multidimensional array of options, meta fields and post_content. Supports the removal of established localizations. Supports translation via GET parameter. Add in the GET parameter lang code desired language. Supports clean database of translations when removing the plugin. Translations are only removed from the built-in tables. Supports import term translations from qTranslate(by Soft79). Supports automatically redirect to the user’s browser language, if he visits for the first time. Ideal for developers. For display language switcher in any place add the code to your template if ( function_exists ( 'wpm_language_switcher' ) ) wpm_language_switcher (); Function accepts two parameters: $type – ‘list’, ‘dropdown’, ‘select’. Default – ‘list’. $show – ‘flag’, ‘name’, ‘both’. Default – ‘both’. Or using the shortcode wpm_lang_switcher. It accept two not necessary parameters ‘type’ and ‘show’. Available features for translation: wpm_translate_url( $url, $language = ” ); – translate url wpm_translate_string( $string, $language = ” ); – translate multilingual string wpm_translate_value( $value, $language = ” ); – translate multidimensional array with multilingual strings Update translation occurs at PHP. Therefore plugin has high adaptability, compatibility and easily integrates with other plugins. This is what distinguishes it among similar. Available translation html tags by JS for strings what do not have WP filters before output. Add your tags in config: "admin_html_tags": { "admin_screen_id": { "attribute": [ "selector" ] } } Where: admin_screen_id – admin screen id. attribute – attribute what need to translate. Available ‘text’ – for translate text node, ‘value’ – for translate form values. Or other tag attribute, like ‘title’, ‘alt’. selector – css selector for search needed tag. Each selector is a new array item. If You need to add translation for multidimentional array for repeated elements You can use custom tag ‘wpm_each’ for set config to each element in array. Example, add config for each item ‘title’ in custom post field array: "post_fields": { "custom_field": { "wpm_each": { "title": {} } } } For set translation uses the syntax: [:en]Donec vitae orci sed dolor[:de]Cras risus ipsum faucibus ut[:] Added shortcode for translate text in any place: [wpm_translate][:en]Donec vitae orci sed dolor[:de]Cras risus ipsum faucibus ut[:][wpm_translate] If You translate text in established language, add lang parameter: [wpm_translate lang=”de”][:en]Donec vitae orci sed dolor[:de]Cras risus ipsum faucibus ut[:][wpm_translate] Support translating from syntax qTranslate, qTranslate-X, WPGlobus etc. Compatible with REST-API. Support transfer the required translation through option lang in the GET request to REST. Has the ability to keep recording the target language through the transmission parameter lang in the request. Migration from qTranslate-X Before installing/uninstalling, make database backup. Deactivate qTranslate-X. Install and activate WP Multilang. Create in root of your theme file ‘wpm-config.json’. Add all needed post types, taxonomies, options, fields to ‘wpm-config.json’. Setting from qTranslate-X not importing. Import term names from qTranslate. Check that everything is okay. If everything is okay, remove qTranslate-X. If not, make screenshots of errors, restore database from backup and add support issue with your screenshots and description of errors. Warning Not compatible with: – WP Maintenance Known issues Function ‘get_page_by_title’ not working, because in title field are stored titles for all languages. Use function ‘wpm_get_page_by_title( $title )’ as solution. NOTE: Because plugins have different ways of storing data, WP Multilang is not compatible with every single plugin out-of-the-box (mostly page builders). This may result in texts not being translatable or translations not being saved. Most of these issues can be resolved using the integration options (wpm-config.json or filters) of WP Multilang. Please try WP Multilang in a test-environment before activating it on an existing production site and always make a backup before activating! Home | Help & Tech Support | Documentation | Premium Support We try our best to provide support on WordPress.org forums. However, We have a special community support where you can ask us questions and get help about your WP Multilang related questions. Delivering a good user experience means a lot to us and so we try our best to reply each and every question that gets asked. Bug Reports Bug reports for WP Multilang are welcomed on GitHub. Please note GitHub is not a support forum, and issues that aren’t properly qualified as bugs will be closed.