Weglot Translate – Translate your WordPress website and go multilingual

Description

Weglot Translate is the leading WordPress translation plugin, trusted by 60,000+ users worldwide. Translate your WordPress website into 110+ languages and go multilingual within minutes, no coding required.

Increase visibility and boost conversions with ease by adding multilingual functionality. Weglot Translate is fully optimized for multilingual SEO, with every translated page automatically indexed by Google. Say hello in multiple languages to millions of new visitors.

Make your website multilingual in minutes with a free trial. Visit https://weglot.com/ to learn more!

How Weglot Translate works

Why Weglot Translate

It’s easy to install: Weglot Translate is quick to set up to have a multilingual WordPress website ready, instantly. Reach out to millions of new visitors worldwide with a few clicks, without any coding.

It’s built for maximum compatibility: Weglot Translate is fully compatible with all platforms, WordPress themes, and plugins. From WooCommerce product descriptions to Elementor order forms, everything is built with the creation of a successful multilingual website in mind: easily translate all your content into the languages of your choice. This way you can focus on your content, not the technical details.

It’s optimized for SEO: Weglot Translate follows Google’s best practices for multilingual website translation, serving all translated web pages with clean source code. Google will automatically index every translated page with dedicated URLs.

It’s easy to set and forget: Weglot Translate automatically detects all your website content for easy translation. No more time-consuming manual duplication of every single line of content to get a multilingual website. All translations are updated in real-time, so you don’t need to worry about maintenance and any newly added content is automatically translated.

It takes translation seriously: Weglot Translate gives you an edge on your translation tasks with the first layer of automatic multilingual translation provided by the best machine learning providers on the market (DeepL, Google, Microsoft, and Yandex). You can also edit the translations and collaborate with your team to work on multilingual translations together, directly within Weglot.

It partners with the pros: Weglot Translate lets you order from vetted professional translators directly inside your Weglot dashboard. Set translation quality the way you want it to be, with Weglot Translate.

“Within a week of translating our site to English with Weglot, international sales doubled, by the following month – they had quadrupled.”
Clara Champion – Director of Digital and E-Commerce, Jimmy Fairly
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Multilingual functionality like no other

Increase visibility: All translated pages are automatically indexed following Google’s best practices with dedicated URLs. Get new traffic with your multilingual website.

Reduce bounce rate: Redirect visitors automatically to serve them in the language of their choice, based on their browser settings.

Enhance user experience: From the landing page to the email confirmation, get all your key conversion steps translated in your customers’ language. You can even add different images and videos for various languages. Useful for images with text, Weglot Translate makes it easy to display “translated” images in your translated versions. Media localization is an essential aspect of any multilingual project and Weglot Translate makes it simple to do so.

“We really loved the localization features provided by Weglot, such as the ability to translate images and other types of media depending on the language the visitor is viewing the site in.”
Kim Martin – Senior Communications and Marketing Officer, The Challenge Initiative
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An all-in-one language translation platform

  • Manage and edit all of your translations through a user-friendly interface.
  • Collaborate with team members and trusted translators to translate together, directly inside Weglot.
  • Is it a title? Is it a link? No more guessing the context of the text. Weglot Translate’s in-context editor lets you translate directly within the webpage.
  • Make it your own. The multilingual language switcher is fully customizable with multiple design choices.
  • Weglot Translate makes it easy to migrate from other WordPress multilingual plugins like Polylang or WPML. Simply deactivate your existing translation plugin and install Weglot Translate.

“Weglot removed the pain of having to manage multiple stores for multiple locales. The integration was easy, and the support is incredibly helpful. I highly recommend Weglot to anyone looking for a simple and cost-effective solution to translate their stores!”
Mike Robertson – Director of Sales Operations, Nikon

With an increase in site visitors and session duration thanks to your multilingual website, you can expect a massive boost to your conversions. See why thousands of e-commerce platforms, SaaS firms, marketplaces, corporate websites, and blogs worldwide love Weglot Translate for its multilingual powers. Try it today for free

Why should you have a multilingual website?

It’s easy to forget all about other languages when setting up your online business! With the resources needed to put together a new website, multilingual capabilities are very commonly ignored, as the process to get multiple translations can get complicated and expensive. But ignoring the importance of being multilingual can be a costly mistake: unlocking the possibility for visitors to read and interact in their own language means you’ll be significantly widening your reach, increasing your chances of business success!

This is why it’s important to think of ways to cater for more languages: multilingual websites naturally rank in more countries and attract more potential customers. Your visitors will also feel like you are significantly more localized by speaking to them in a language they easily understand!

But how about the cost and headache to set up a proper multilingual website? This is where Weglot can make it easy: with a simple way to unlock multilingual capabilities swiftly, your website can go from targeted towards a single language to multilingual in an easy, affordable manner!

Please note that Weglot is using Cloudfront CDN to display flags images to speed up performance around the world.
The use of this CDN and of Weglot service is subject to Weglot terms of service

Screenshots

  • Translate your website in minutes, no code needed
  • Collaborate with your team or professional translators
  • Manage all your translations inside one simple dashboard
  • Drive new visitors to your website with multilingual SEO optimized translated pages
  • Redirect your visitors to their preferred language
  • Save time in your translation management process
  • Customize your language switcher to fit your website design
  • Join thousands of global brands trusting Weglot to translate their website

Installation

Weglot minimum requirements

  • WordPress 4.5 or greater
  • PHP version 5.6 or greater
  • Rewrite rules activated

Weglot Translate instructions

Weglot Translate is easy to set up:

  1. Go to https://dashboard.weglot.com/register-wordpress to set up an account.
  2. Copy your API key from your Weglot dashboard. It will look something like: “wg_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx”.
  3. Find the Weglot Translate settings page on the bottom left of your WordPress admin dashboard.
  4. Paste your API key into the appropriate space under Weglot Translate settings, and click save. Then enter your website’s original language and the translation languages you want.
  5. Now’s the fun part: personalize your translation button style (add or delete flag icons, make the language list a dropdown if you want, display each language’s full name or 2-letter language code…)
  6. Click “Save.”.
    7.(Optional) Go to Appearance -> Widgets, then drag and drop the « Weglot Translate » widget where you want it to appear.
    Refresh your web page.Your website is now multilingual and available in the selected translation languages. You can switch languages to see your live translated pages.

When you’re ready, you can edit your translations directly in your account.

FAQ

Is Weglot Translate free?

  • Weglot Translate is free for small websites (under 2,000 words) with one translation language.
  • Our WordPress multilingual plugin is cost-effective like no other, with custom paid plans to suit your needs. Check our pricing for more information.
  • Weglot Translate also offers a 10-day free trial version; try our multilingual website solution today!

Is Weglot compatible with SEO?

Weglot Translate is 100% optimized for multilingual SEO. It creates a dedicated URL for each language to ensure the proper indexation of your translated multilingual content on search engines like Google. SEO tags are also translated and editable within your Weglot Translate account, for the ultimate control on your translations.

Is Weglot Translate compatible with WooCommerce?

Yes, you can use Weglot Translate to create a multilingual WooCommerce store without any compatibility issues. Even your checkout page is translated—and the translations are editable from your Weglot Translate dashboard.

Can I migrate from WPML or Polylang to Weglot Translate?

  • Yes, you can easily migrate from Polylang or WPML to Weglot Translate. Simply deactivate your Polylang or WPML existing multilingual / translation plugin, and you’ll immediately be able to start using Weglot Translate.
  • If you need to import any preexisting translations from WPML, Polylang or any other multilingual plugin, feel free to contact us directly at [email protected].

How do I set up Weglot Translate?

Weglot Translate is easy to set up to get a multilingual website in minutes:

  1. Go to https://dashboard.weglot.com/register-wordpress to set up an account.
  2. Copy your API key from your Weglot dashboard. It will look something like: “wg_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx”.
  3. Find the Weglot Translate settings page on the bottom left of your WordPress admin dashboard.
  4. Paste your API key into the appropriate space under Weglot Translate settings, and click save. Then enter your website’s original language and the translation languages you want.
  5. Now here’s the fun part: personalize your translation button style (add or delete flag icons, make the language list a dropdown if you want, display each language’s full name or 2-letter language code…)
  6. Click “Save”.
  7. (Optional) Go to Appearance -> Widgets, then drag and drop the « Weglot Translate » widget where you want it to appear.

Refresh your web page. Your website is now multilingual and available in the selected translation languages. You can switch languages to see your live translated pages.

When you’re ready, you can edit your translations directly in your Weglot dashboard.

Can I edit my translations?

With Weglot Translate, you can modify translations under the « Translations » tab in your Weglot account,here. If you change a translation, it’s automatically saved and displayed on your website.

Can I add translated images and videos?

Yes, you can add different images and videos for other languages. This is useful if you have text in an image, and you want to display a “translated” image in your translated version. To do this, you can simply upload your other translated image into your WordPress gallery. You can then link it to the correct translated version of your site by going to your Weglot dashboard and searching for the original URL in the translations list; replace this URL with the newly-uploaded “translated” image’s URL in the translation column.

Can Weglot translate URLs?

Yes, you can translate your URL slugs with Weglot. This is useful if you’d like an extra layer of localization. Access this feature in your Weglot Dashboard through Translations > URL Slugs and choose to edit them manually or using machine translation. Make sure you go back to the Weglot tab in your WordPress dashboard and hit refresh to finalize the translation.

Can I make translation exclusions and exceptions?

You certainly can! Exclude pages, or parts of pages, from translation if you want to stick to the original content. You can also create custom translation rules to translate pages and posts precisely the way you want it.

Can I use Weglot Translate on more than one website?

Yes, Pro plans and above offer multisite support. This allows you to manage several languages and several multilingual websites separately and gives access to one person per website.

Does Weglot Translate provide support?

Yes, and our users love us for it; just check out our reviews! The Weglot Translate team offers support for all users, with priority accorded to premium members. Be sure to check out our Help center. Post a topic on the support forum, or email us at [email protected] if you have any questions.

How many languages does Weglot support?

Weglot supports 110+ different languages for the ultimate multilingual flexibility for your website. A full list of available languages can be found here. Weglot makes it easy to unlock multilingual powers in just a few clicks!

Can I use subdomains for each language?

It’s not currently possible to use several subdomains on WordPress with Weglot Translate such as de.website.com. However, Weglot uses subdirectories in your URL to separate all the multilingual versions of your website.

For example, if your website is website.com, then the French version would be website.com/fr/, same for the German version website.com/de/, and so on. This is repeated for each version of your new multilingual website. A unique URL is therefore created for each version of your multilingual web page, which is important for your SEO.

Reviews

October 1, 2021
Generally, the translations were good. I just have to modify just a few things but basically, I can say that the plug in could make a website multilanguage ! Good job! Definitely recommended
September 27, 2021
Really a big big thanks to the team for this plugin, its 100% professional, we can now provide to our customer, something really PROFESSIONAL, clean, without any doubt. Mostly because the team is always here to help or for advices. Thanks a lot to you 🙂 I hope that my review will help others, I am 100% satisfied of your services. Regards
September 24, 2021
I am very satisfied of the plugin Weglot, the translation is very good and I have an easy access to edit my translation. Also, I would like to add that Zoe from Weglot was very nice and help me a lot with some questions I had.
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Contributors & Developers

“Weglot Translate – Translate your WordPress website and go multilingual” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

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Changelog

3.4 (15/09/2021)

  • Add: All 404 pages are excluded from translation if you exclude /404 in the Weglot dashboard
  • Improved performance: Files for multilingual compatibility with other plugins are only called when necessary
  • Bugfix: Autoswitch feature now works with custom languages
  • Bugfix: Password reset link in translated emails now works
  • Bugfix: WooCommerce emails are now translated when using custom languages
  • Bugfix: Fixed warning in 404 styles.css.map
  • Bugfix: Autoswitch doesn’t redirect when visitor comes from an external link from now on

Older versions

Our complete changelog is located in the changelog.md file in the plugin folder.

The change log is located in the changelog.md file in the plugin folder.