Translate Multilingual sites – TranslatePress
Translate Multilingual sites – TranslatePress
Description
Experience a better way to translate your WordPress site and go multilingual, directly from the front-end using a visual translation interface.
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 translation support through TranslatePress AI Free, with a 2.000 AI words limit.
- 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
Documentation
Visit TranslatePress WordPress Translation plugin documentation page
Add-ons
Demo Site
You can test out TranslatePress – Multilingual plugin by visiting our demo site
Installation
- Upload the translatepress folder to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory
- Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- Go to Settings -> TranslatePress and choose a translation language.
- Open the front-end translation editor from the admin bar to translate your site.
Screenshots
TranslatePress front-end visual translation editor in action
Front-end translation editor used to translate the entire page content
How to translate a dynamic string (gettext)
Translating WooCommerce Products for your multilingual store
Translate Images and Image Sliders
Settings Page
Floating Language Switcher
Menu Language Switcher
Faq
All the translation are stored locally in your server’s database.
TranslatePress – Multilingual plugin works out of the box with WooCommerce, custom post types, complex themes and site builders, so you’ll be able to translate any type of content.
TranslatePress is easier to use and more intuitive altogether. No more switching between the editor, string translation interfaces or badly translated plugins. You can now translate the full page content directly from the front-end. This makes TranslatePress a great alternative to plugins like Polylang and WPML. For more details check out this WordPress Translation Plugin Comparison: TranslatePress vs WPML vs Polylang vs Gtranslate.
After installing the plugin, select your secondary language and click “Translate Site” to start translating your entire site exactly as it looks in the front-end.
TranslatePress will have little impact on your site speed. For more details see Top WordPress Translation Plugins Compared Based on Page Load Time
Yes, TranslatePress works out of the box with WooCommerce. You can use to build a multilingual WooCommerce store.
For more information please check out our documentation.
Reviews
They Removed a Free Feature and Forced a Subscription
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First of all, the code behind this plugin feels badly optimized, and it causes a lot of slowdowns on the site. Performance issues alone already make the experience frustrating. On top of that, the ability to use more than two languages was previously available for free, and now it has been removed and locked behind a paid subscription. This is not an improvement — it is taking away an existing feature and forcing users to pay for something that used to be included. It feels like a deliberate attempt to push everyone into subscribing. Changing the rules like this after people already chose your product is unfair and misleading. Instead of improving the service, you made it worse for existing users.
Simple and helpful
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Very well done, could not find any problems so far. Simple user interface also well suited for web editors with little experience.
Translate Press might become our number One
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We used quite a few translation plugins (paid and free) on all our websites. Some were better and easier to maintain than others. But when it really came to automatic translations, where the reader reads in their native language, I found DeepL to be the best! Until we stumbled upon Translate Press. We started with the free version—and it looks very good—and if things keep going like this, it will be worth purchasing the paid version.
Really good!
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Very powerful and easy to use.
Powerful, flexible, and the best translation plugin I’ve used
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I’ve been using TranslatePress for over five years now, and it has been one of the most solid and reliable plugins in my entire WordPress setup.
What truly stands out is its flexibility. I honestly can’t think of a single element on my website that I wasn’t able to translate. From pages to dynamic content, everything is accessible and manageable directly from the front end, which makes the whole process intuitive and efficient.
As someone who works professionally with language and has become more involved in building and refining my site, I’ve come to appreciate just how powerful this plugin really is. It strikes a rare balance between simplicity and depth: easy to use on the surface, yet incredibly capable when you need full control.
TranslatePress is practical, well-designed, and simply works. It has been a key part of my website for years, and I highly recommend it to anyone serious about multilingual WordPress.
I like it
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I like it.
Perfect & simple!
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Perfect & simple translation plugin
undoubtedly the best
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The best language plugin I have ever used. Keep updating these amazing features!
best language plugin.
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The most user-friendly translation tool.
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I used TranslatePress for my project. It’s powerful, intuitive, and simply does what it promises. What I loved the most is how simple it is. Even without deep technical knowledge, I was able to set everything up and have a multilingual site running in no time. 5 stars are not enough for this kind of work. Highly recommended for everyone who wants a professional result without the headache! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Changelog
3.1.5
- Do not query translatepress.com for valid licenses if the license is empty
- Skip pdf translation by detecting pdf magic characters at the beginning of every pdf file
- Do not show Upgrade button for Developer license
- Make languages sortable in free version as well
Older versions
Click Here to view the full changelog, or you can find it in the changelog.txt file in the plugin folder.