WPGlobus vs TranslatePress – Translate Multilingual sites with AI Translation

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

WPGlobus is a family of WordPress plugins assisting you in translating and maintaining bilingual/multilingual WordPress blogs and sites. Quick Start Video Please also read the Quick Start Guide. Important Notes: please read before using WPGlobus! NO AUTOMATIC TRANSLATION: WPGlobus does NOT translate texts automatically! You will translate texts manually. PAGE BUILDERS / COMPOSERS: WPGlobus supports blocks (“Gutenberg”) and WPBakery Page Builder. Other builders, such as “Page Builder by SiteOrigin”, “Beaver Builder”, Fusion (“Avada”), Elegant (“Divi”), Elementor, etc. have limited or no support. IF YOU UNINSTALL, YOU LOSE TRANSLATIONS: WPGlobus stores all translations using a special format: {:en}English{:}{:fr}French{:}{:es}Spanish{:}. If you decide to deactivate and uninstall WPGlobus, you must run the cleanup tool to keep only one language. See the details on the “Welcome” tab in the WPGlobus Settings. COOKIES: WPGlobus use browser cookies to store the selected language in the form wpglobus-language=xx where xx is a two-letter language code: en, de, fr, etc. NO MULTISITE: The multisite mode (multiple virtual sites sharing a single WordPress installation) is not tested and not supported. FREE PLUGIN with PAID EXTENSIONS: Some functionality is available only with our premium add-ons. Details below. OLD PHP / OLD WORDPRESS: We develop and test our software using the latest versions of PHP, WordPress, and all plugins. If you have an older version and something is not working properly – please upgrade before contacting us. MBSTRING: For the full UTF-8 compatibility and better performance, please make sure that the Multibyte String PHP extension is enabled. What is in the FREE version of WPGlobus? The WPGlobus plugin provides you with the general multilingual tools. Manually translate posts, pages, categories, tags, menus, and widgets; Add one or several languages to your WP blog/site using custom combinations of country flags, locales and language names; Switch the languages at the front-end using: a drop-down menu extension and/or a customizable widget with various display options; Switch the Administrator interface language using a top bar selector; The WPGlobus plugin serves as the foundation to other plugins in the family. When do I need WPGlobus Extensions? To translate URLs (/my-page/ translates to /fr/ma-page, /es/mi-pagina and so on); To “postpone” translation to all languages and publish only those that are ready; To have completely separate menus for each language; To translate WooCommerce products and taxonomies; …and more. For more details, please check out the extension descriptions on our website: WooCommerce WPGlobus: adds multilingual capabilities to WooCommerce-based online stores. WPGlobus Plus: adds URL fine-tuning, publishing status per translation, and more. WPGlobus – Mobile Menu: makes the WPGlobus language switcher menu compatible with mobile devices and narrow screens. WPGlobus – Featured Images: Set featured image separately for each language defined in WPGlobus. WPGlobus – Translate Options: Selective translation of the texts stored in the wp_options database table. Compatibility with WordPress Themes WPGlobus works correctly with all themes that apply proper filtering before outputting content. Some themes incorporate 3rd party plugins (e.g., sliders, forms, composers) – not all of them are 100% multilingual-ready. When you see elements that cannot be translated, please tell the theme/plugin authors. Read more on the topic here. Compatibility with WordPress Plugins We have tested WPGlobus with many plugins. However, since plugins are frequently updated, some adjustments may be required after a new update. We will do our best to monitor and make the necessary changes on our end. Permalinks IMPORTANT: WPGlobus will not work if your URLs look like example.com?p=123 or example.com/index.php/category/post/. Please go to Settings->Permalinks and change the permalink structure to non-default and with no index.php in it. If you are unable to do that for some reason, please talk to your hosting provider or systems administrator. Note: WooCommerce adds their own section to the Permalinks. It is important to fill in all the information. For example, you need to specify your Shop Base, for example, /product/. If you leave it blank, WooCommerce will try to translate the base (eg /produkt/ for German), which will result in a 404 error. Developing on `localhost` or custom ports WPGlobus may not work correctly on development servers having URLs like //localhost/mysite or on custom ports like //myserver.dev:3000. Please use a proper domain name (a fake one from /etc/hosts is OK), and port 80.