Best Translation Plugins For WordPress

Website is key for creating a digital presence. It gives you a good opportunity to enhance with audience from around the world. Translation is one such improtant factor that always comes into consideration when engaging with your customer/ audience.  Many non-English websites around the world today are using WordPress. However, the thing is that WordPress has a limitation when it comes to creating multilingual websites. It does not have the capability to create such websites at the moment. Luckily, there are some tools out there that can easily add multilingual content to your site. 

Convey This

ConveyThis

If there is one truly convenient way to translate your website, it must be through ConveyThis!

It is the most translated language plugin in the WordPress directory (over 38 language contributions) and is growing fast. ConveyThis makes it very simple to integrate into WP website and activate as many as 100+ languages.

ConveyThis uses automatic machine translation to translate your entire site, and adds a language switcher button. So within the first couple of minutes, you’ll already have a working, SEO-friendly multilingual site.

It comes with both free and paid plan. Free plan that lets you translate up to 2,500 words into one language, the paid plans use SaaS-style billing, which means you’ll need to continue to pay for as long as you want to use the service.

Paid plans start at $5 a month for one language and up to 10,000 words.

Translate Press

The first translation plugin for WordPress on the list is Translate Press that allows you to translate every aspect of your website. The main feature that differentiates Translate press from other Translation plugins is that it allows the website owner to translate directly from the front end. During translation, you can easily switch between the languages and preview them as well instantly. Another key benefit of using this plugin is that you can change the theme, plugins, and even meta-data without having to change the interface.

WPML

WPML is another one of the best translation plugins that features a powerful translation management system allowing the website owner to translate plugins, themes, and more. WPML comes in Multilingual CMS licensing plans and Multilingual blog. You will be needing the multilingual CMS plan for page builder support, eCommerce, managing translation teams, and many other features.

What’s more, is that it comes with an extremely user-friendly interface that adds translations and allows the user to manage multilingual content across the website. WPML in that respect supports all custom fields, post types, and strings generated as a result of WordPress plugins and themes. Lastly, it also allows you to connect your website with third-party translation service providers.

Polylang

Polylang tends to be another powerful translation plugin that is used to create multilingual websites. It features a simple interface that allows the user to easily add translations for pages, posts, widgets, and custom post types, etc. However, unlike other WordPress translation plugins, Polyland does not support WordPress themes and plugins. The default plugin it comes with does not include eCommerce support, therefore, you will need to pay and purchase a paid addon for that.

Weglot

Weglot is a translation platform that is cloud-based. It works with BigCommerce, WordPress, and Shopify. While setting up Weglot you will need to enter Weglot API so that your WordPress site is connected to their platform. Once that is done, you will be able to choose your site language, language, and also the languages you wish to add. Furthermore, you will have to use Weglot’s website to translate all the content and manage translations, etc. The other notable features of Weglot include WooCommerce support, Language switcher button, and third-party translation services, etc. Based on the translated words and number of languages, weglot utilizes a monthly pricing structure. 

Multilingual Press

Multilingual Press adopts a different approach to creating multilingual websites with WordPress. It uses the built-in WordPress multisite network instead of a normal WordPress install. As a result, it allows the plugin to manage content for each language efficiently. Moreover, it improves the performance by loading one page at a time. It comes with a user-friendly interface that allows the user to manage translation from a single dashboard. 

Translate WordPress with GTranslate

Translate WordPress with GTranslate is a Google translation plugin for WordPress. Once you set it up, it automatically connects to Google translate API and is able to fetch translations for any languages that are supported. Furthermore, it allows you to easily add a language switcher as well to translate your webpages or you can automatically translate the content depending on the browser language of the user. 

Transposh WordPress Translation

Transposh WordPress Translation uses a combination of automated machine translation with manual human translations. You can also allow your visitors to contribute translation using the user-friendly and use in-context interface. Furthermore, to submit translations, the plugin also allows the user to hire professional translation services. Its automated translation feature supports Bing, Google, and Yandex, etc.

Final Word

The above-mentioned translation plugins are designed to help you easily translate content, create multilingual websites and make the overall process seamless. Based on your needs and preferences, you can choose any of the plugins above and easily to switch between languages for your content.