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Free Plugin by Cozmoslabs v3.3.4

TranslatePress

Translate your site visually, directly from the front-end. Go multilingual in minutes using automatic AI translation. Works with any theme or plugin.

TranslatePress

The facts

Rating
4.7★ from 1,653
Active installs
400k+
Price
Free
Last updated
25 Aug 2026
Added
Aug 2017
Requires WP
3.1.0
Tested up to
WP 7.1
Requires PHP
7.4
Downloads
20,524,379

Our analysis

AI-assisted

TranslatePress is a WordPress plugin designed for translating websites into multiple languages. It features a visual translation interface that allows you to translate content directly from the front-end, including shortcodes and WooCommerce elements. The plugin supports both automatic AI translations and manual editing, giving you control over the final output.

This plugin is suitable for users who want to create bilingual or multilingual sites easily. It is compatible with all themes and plugins, making it a versatile choice for various WordPress setups.

Best for: This plugin suits website owners looking to create multilingual content easily.

What it does well

  • Visual translation interface for easy front-end editing
  • Supports both automatic AI and manual translations
  • Compatible with WooCommerce and all themes/plugins
  • Customizable language switcher options
  • Editorial control over publishing translations

Where it falls short

  • Limited to 2,000 AI words for automatic translation
  • Premium add-ons required for extended features

Verdict

TranslatePress provides a straightforward solution for translating WordPress sites, combining automatic and manual translation options. It is a practical choice for those needing to cater to diverse language audiences.

From the developer

Cozmoslabs's own description of TranslatePress, lightly tidied.

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

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