Best WordPress Translation Plugins 2021 Ultimate Guide

 Best WordPress Translation Plugins

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 contrubutions) 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 €4 a month for one language and up to 10,000 words.

2. GTranslate

GTranslate is the second item on our best WordPress translation plugins list. It has a vast variety of plans and also a free version with quite appealing features that can be used to translate your website to the most popular languages available in the world.

The free version of GTranslate which is downloadable in WordPress plugin repository, with more than 100,000 active installations, offers Google automatic machine translation and also the support of all languages available.

Translation Type:

1. Machine Translate(Automatic)

2. Multilingual(Manual)

Key Features:

1. Enable search engine indexing
2. Neural machine translations quality
3. Increase traffic and AdSense revenue
4. Search engine friendly (SEF) URLs
5. Yoast SEO compatible

Pros of GTranslate:

• Unlimited Words and Pageviews
• Neural Machine Translations
• Supports All Languages
• Live Chat Support
• URL Translation
• Detailed Analytics

Cons of GTranslate:

• Multiple installations on multiple WordPress sub-sites under the same domain might have some URL conflicts.

3. Weglot

Weglot is the third item of our best WordPress translation plugins list which is one of the best translation plugins with high-quality translations with only one problem, it’s so much expensive.

It has a precise limitation on words counts and languages that you can have multilingual options on.

Weglot offers automatic high-quality machine translation from their cloud-based services which are editable after implementation.

Translation Type:

1. Machine Translate(Automatic)

2. Multilingual(Manual)

Key Features:

1. Quick install
2. Content detection
3. Team collaboration
4. An all-in-one platform
5. In context editor
6. Automatic & human translation

Pros of Weglot:

• Human Translations
• Neural Machine Translations
• Supports All Languages
• Live Chat Support
• URL Translation
• Detailed Analytics

Cons of Weglot:

• Words counts, languages, and pageviews limitations are a little bit harsh.
• The free version is almost useless with maximum of 2000 words usage allowance.

4. TranslatePress

TranslatePress as our fourth choice in our WordPress translation plugins list is one of the most easy-to-use translation plugins ever and somehow the only plugin with such a rich front-end visual editor that even supports famous page builders like WPBakery and Elementor too.

If we put language count limitation aside, the free version of TranslatePress is quite a catch in the industry, that offers features like real-time front-end editor for translation, translating strings, and manual and automatic translation.

Translation Type:

1. Machine Translate(Automatic)

2. Multilingual(Manual)

Key Features:

1. Translate what you see
2. Support for dynamic strings
3. Translation Blocks
4. Image translation
5. Automatic Translation
6. Customizable Language Switcher
7. Support for WooCommerce
8. Fully compatible with most themes

Pros of TranslatePress:

• Live Editor
• Compatible With Most Themes
• +221 Languages Support
• Media Translation
• GPL & Self-Hosted
• String Translation

Cons of TranlatePress:

• There is no way to contact support in a form of live chat.
• In order to benefit from features like SEO translation or extra languages you need to buy extra addons beside the premium version.

5. WPML

WPML is almost the oldest player in the field of WordPress translation plugins. Besides that it doesn’t have any free type of versions, WPML offers features like string translation, e-commerce translation, automatic, manual, and human translation and support of 44 languages.

Translation Type:

1. Machine Translate(Automatic)

2. Multilingual(Manual)

Key Features:

1. Powerful Translation Management
2. Multilingual E-Commerce
3. +64 Languages Support
4. Theme & Plugin Translation
5. Affordable Professional Translation

Pros of WPML:

• E-Commerce Translation
• Compatible With Famous Themes
• Media Translation
• +64 Languages Support

Cons of WPML:

• There is no way to contact support in a form of live chat.
• There is no free plugin and most of the paid features comes with a not-suitable price comparing to other plugins.
• WPML usually speeds down your website because of its creating-post-for-everything structure.
• With them saying it’s compatible with all themes, we have witnessed a lot of string detection problems using this plugin in multiple themes.

6. Polylang

Polylang with more than +500,000 active installations from its initial release in 2011 is one of the most powerful WordPress translation plugins and therefore our last choice in this ultimate collection.

The free version of Polylang offers features like translate posts, pages, media, categories, tags, custom post types, custom taxonomies, menus, widgets, subdirectories, subdomains or separate domains and also a compatibilty for WPML API so you can migrate to Polylang from it.

Translation Type:

1. Multilingual(Manual)

Key Features:

1. Manual Translation
2. Translate Posts & Pages
3. Translate Media & Categories
4. Translate Menus & Widgets
5. Unlimited languages Available
6. E-commerce Translation
7. SEO-Friendly Translations

Pros of Polylang:

• Unlimited Languages
• Media Translation
• SEO-Friendly

Cons of Weglot:

• Besides the fact that there is not support for non-paid users, there is no way to contact support in a form of live chat.
• No automatic translation is available in the plugin core; for that, you need to integrate with a cloud-based translation management system known as Lingotek.

Final Thoughts:

I hope you have enjoyed this look at the best WordPress translation plugins on the market.

As always, I highly recommend testing multiple solutions to get a better understanding of what is available and which plugin or service fits your needs best, as one size does not fit all.

If you manage a corporate website or an online store, you may want to hire a professional translation service to manually translate key pages for targeted regions.

Blogs and other websites that publish a high volume of content may want to consider subscribing to an automatic translation service so that every new post or page is translated.

Those of you who don’t want to spend a lot of money on translation may want to consider manually translating content using free translation services such as Google Translate. This can be a time-consuming endeavour, but it gives you full control over what is published and keeps translation costs low.

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