Source: Uncle Google
Recently, the live broadcast encountered a very strange thing, many people's websites, the number of inquiries in small languages is far greater than the number of mainstream English markets.
There are about 4.3 billion internet users in the world, and you have customers in different markets. The competition of small languages is far lower than that of the traditional English market. There are more than 6,000 languages in the world, and there are 7 major languages with a large number of speakers, and most of the language plug-ins support more than 120 languages, which means that it is easier for you to get inquiries or orders in small language countries.
To help community members do just that, I've gathered the best WordPress translation plugins. We'll provide plugins that will help you create a user-friendly, indexable, multilingual website, as well as some simpler options that will allow you to dynamically translate your website on the fly.
How to choose a WordPress multilingual plugin
The ideal multilingual plugin is one that can be easily indexed by search engines quickly, can get SEO rankings, and is relatively low-cost.......
The ideal function must be as follows:
First: You can bind any top-level domain name, for example, www.sdwebseo.com, you can bind www.sdwebseo.co.jp if you do Japanese. You can bind a second-level domain name jp.sdwebseo.com and a directory www.sdwebseo.com/jp
Second: automatic translation or manual translation, I have to say that the experience of manual translation will be better, but it takes a lot of time and energy. Automatic translation can be called up to DeepL or Google Translate, and we can manually modify the translated content for inaccuracies or for local language rankings.
Third: the translation content is more thorough, such as URL, SEO tdk, or some languages in the plugin template are translated, WooCommerce products, etc.
Fourth: You can jump to the corresponding language page according to the user's browser language selection.
In fact, I have recently tested several of them, and each one has some shortcomings, and almost none of them are perfect, and you can choose according to your needs
8 commonly used WordPress translation plugins
1.WPML
WPML is the oldest WordPress multilingual translation plugin, which is very powerful and compatible with a large number of WordPress plugins, which is indeed a very good plugin. But Uncle Google is a little annoyed by his many small plugins and the complexity of configuration options. You need to install different compatible sub-plugins for different features and plugins, and it's a bit uncomfortable to see that the plugin list is full of WPML-related plugins.
For small and medium-sized websites, Uncle Google prefers GTranslate because it is lighter and easier to use, especially the paid version of GTranslate can meet almost all the usual needs.
There are some licenses sold on Taobao, and people who like old big companies can buy them. It's really exhausting to have a manual translation of each language. Usually with this solution, we programmers need to be busy for more than half a month.
2.Weglot
Weglot Translate is a WP plugin that allows you to automatically create a fully translated version of your entire WordPress website. This plugin is one of the easiest translation plugins to use to translate your website in a matter of seconds. It offers over 100 different languages and is fully compatible with all themes and plugins, including eCommerce solutions like WooCommerce, though I went to check it out and it felt more expensive overall. I don't know who gave him so much confidence that I didn't test the overall use experience!
3.TranslatePress
This plugin is always recommended by the rabbits in the group.。 To use it, you need to install at least 2 plugins. You can use the translation function to call up the API of DeepL or Google Translate, but I personally feel that the cost is relatively expensive. There are also free extensions that you can use, but you need to manually click on the translated page to use them.
I like this plugin as a whole, but occasionally a page is not translated, and the function of jumping to the corresponding language page according to the IP is not very useful
Many people in the live broadcast group have installed this plugin in Goolge's API, but it is very difficult to apply for this API.
4.GTranslate
This is a plan that we often recommend to our customers, in fact, when I first started making a website, I tested almost all the solutions on the market and finally chose it. The budget of $300 a year is actually okay, and there is no way to use it if you don't continue to subscribe.
However, the free version supports Google automatic translation, but unfortunately there is no generated page to rank, I believe this feature has brought him a lot of users.
5.Polylang
This is actually when I was thinking about a free multilingual processing solution, and I only bought 9.9 when I found it on Taobao.
In fact, I tested it in the very early days, but it didn't work out successfully, that is, when the plugin was immature.
But I've seen other bloggers who specialize in WP recommend, and I believe I just didn't use it well.
6.Transposh
A relatively old translation plug-in,The tutorials on YouTube are all 10 years ago.,I believe it must have been brilliant 10 years ago.。 However, even if you use it now, it can meet the basic needs. Thank you for the recommendation of the group members of the live broadcast group..........
Overall, if you want to save trouble, I recommend GTranslate, if you have high requirements for translation quality, I recommend WPML, if you want to include fast I recommend TranslatePress, if you want to save more pages I recommend Transposh.