Translate WordPress with Weglot – Multilingual AI Translation vs Smush – Image Optimization, Compression, Lazy Load, WebP & CDN

Translate and localize your WordPress site into 110+ languages using a custom AI Language Model to generate brand-aware translations on autopilot. Weglot is a WordPress translation plugin trusted by 110,000+ websites worldwide. Translate pages, posts, and WooCommerce stores to go multilingual in 5 minutes with no coding required. Professional translation editing included with frontend editor. AI-Powered Translation for WordPress Weglot combines automatic machine translation with human editing control: Automatic translation powered by DeepL, Google Translate, and Microsoft Translator. Custom AI Language Model powered by OpenAI and Gemini to match your brand voice. Multilingual SEO optimization with automatic hreflang tags, metadata, and translated URLs for better localization. Visual translation editor for refining and localizing translations directly on your live site. WooCommerce translation including products, checkout pages, and customer emails. Translation glossary to maintain consistency across your content. 110+ languages available including regional variants. Pro tiers unlock features designed to scale global businesses: Unlimited languages & higher word counts. Advanced multilingual SEO. Multisite & collaboration features. Priority support. WooCommerce Translation Features Translate and localize your entire WooCommerce store to boost international sales: Product descriptions, categories, and attributes. Cart, checkout, and account pages. Customer emails in the user’s native language. WooCommerce-specific metadata and taxonomies. The Weglot Advantage We focus on speed and accuracy. Our AI translation tool detects all your content instantly. You don’t need to manually duplicate pages or manage complex PO files. Everything happens in the cloud, so your site speed remains fast while you scale globally. Unlike traditional translation plugins that create heavy database loads, Weglot is 100% built for performance. Proven Global Results The Bradery: Scaled their fashion ecommerce store to 500+ daily product translations, saving hours of manual work every week. The biggest win for us is the time we’ve saved. It takes us about ten minutes twice a week to double-check everything is running how we want it. Everything else is done by Weglot.* Adèle Aubry, Ecommerce Manager at The Bradery REVIEWS.io: Achieved a 120% increase in German traffic and a 20% conversion boost after localizing with our AI-powered workflow. We needed a product that dramatically increased the speed of website translation. Our clunky manual coding approach was time-consuming, but with Weglot, it’s fast and effortless.* Rich Ball, Marketing Manager, REVIEWS.io Ron Dorff: Now generates 70% of their revenue from international exports by providing a fully-localized customer experience. Weglot interface is really friendly and easy to use. You can find all your content in a few clicks and then translate it quickly and efficiently. Jamila Halloum, Digital Marketing Director at Ron Dorff. Important Links https://www.weglot.com/ https://www.weglot.com/terms https://www.weglot.com/security By using this plugin, you agree to Weglot’s terms and policies. Please review these documents to understand how your data and content are managed and protected. If you decide to stop using Weglot, your website will no longer be translated. All translations are stored on Weglot’s servers. However, you can export all your translations using our import/export feature before discontinuing the service to save your translations. More details on how to do this can be found here: https://support.weglot.com/article/206-can-i-export-my-translations. If you do not have access to this feature, you can request support from Weglot to assist with the export before you leave.

Compress images, optimize images, and enable image lazy load automatically with the powerful Smush image optimizer to keep your WordPress site fast, without losing quality. Smush makes it easy to optimize images, compress images, and deliver images faster across your entire WordPress site. This all-in-one image optimizer automatically reduces image file sizes, enables image lazy load, and serves modern formats like WebP and AVIF, all without breaking image quality or adding extra work. Whether you’re running a blog, store, or portfolio, Smush helps you optimize images at scale and keep your site fast with a trusted WordPress image optimizer. Trusted by 1+ Million Sites | 4.8/5 Star Rating Get everything you need to optimize images and speed up your site. Smush works out of the box with no complicated setup – just install and let it handle the rest. Compress images without losing quality Reduce image file size automatically while keeping your images sharp and clear. Smush is an easy-to-use image optimizer which let’s you compress images using both lossless and lossy compression, giving you the best balance of quality and performance without extra work. You can also compress images outside the media library using Directory Smush, making it easy to optimize images stored in theme folders, plugins, or other directories on your server. Lazy load images for faster pages Enable image lazy load across your site so images load only when needed. This image optimizer improves initial page speed and creates a smoother experience for visitors without extra configuration. Serve WebP and AVIF images automatically (PRO) Convert images to WebP and AVIF and serve them automatically to supported browsers. Smush helps you optimize images using next-gen formats to reduce file size and improve load times across your WordPress site. Deliver images faster with an Image CDN (PRO) Serve images through a global image CDN to reduce latency and improve load times for visitors around the world. 119 global CDN servers Up to 500 GB of bandwidth Faster image delivery based on visitor location Improved performance for image-heavy and high-traffic sites Automatically resize and fix image dimensions (PRO) Eliminate common PageSpeed warnings and improve layout stability with automatic image sizing. Smush dynamically resizes images to perfectly fit their containers, regardless of original size, helping fix the “Properly size images” warning in Google PageSpeed Insights. It also automatically adds missing width and height attributes to your images, improving rendering speed and reducing layout shifts. This helps you meet the “Ensure images have explicit width and height” recommendation without any manual work. Optimize your entire site, automatically Smush works across your whole site as a powerful image optimizer to optimize images as you upload them and maintain performance over time without manual work. Optimize images automatically on upload Compress images in bulk or individually Works with your existing media library No need to re-upload images Enable image lazy load across your site Convert images to WebP and AVIF Deliver images with an integrated image CDN Automatically resize and serve correctly sized images Optimize images outside the media library with Directory Smush Built for performance Smush improves page speed and overall performance by reducing image weight and improving how images are delivered. Reduce page load times Improve user experience Better performance for image-heavy pages Supports image lazy load and preload images (PRO) for faster perceived performance Works with your existing setup Smush is built to work with your current WordPress setup, including popular themes, page builders, and plugins. Compatible with Gutenberg, Elementor, WPBakery, and more Works with WooCommerce stores No need to change your workflow Easy to enable and configure Designed to be simple You don’t need to be a performance expert to optimize images with Smush image optimizer. Works out of the box Simple settings when you need them No technical knowledge required Safe to use on any site Why choose Smush? There are plenty of image optimization plugins, but Smush focuses on making it easy to optimize images, compress images, and improve performance without complexity. As a leading WordPress image optimizer, Smush gives you powerful optimization tools without the technical hassle. Trusted by over 1 million WordPress users Built specifically for WordPress Regular updates and improvements Backed by the WPMU DEV team Get started in minutes Install Smush, activate it, and start to compress images, optimize images, and enable image lazy load right away. This easy-to-use image optimizer helps most sites see improvements immediately without changing how they upload or manage images. About Us WPMU DEV is a premium supplier of quality WordPress plugins, services and support. Learn more here: https://wpmudev.com/ Don’t forget to stay up to date on everything WordPress from the Internet’s number one resource: WPMU DEV Blog Hey, one more thing… we hope you enjoy our free offerings as much as we’ve loved making them for you! Contact and Credits Originally written by Alex Dunae at Dialect (dialect.ca, e-mail ‘alex’ at ‘dialect dot ca’), 2008-11.