Gloty

Description

Gloty translates your WordPress site with AI machine translation, then stores every translation in your own database and serves it from there. Rendering a translated page never calls a remote service — page delivery stays local and deterministic even if the translation service is slow or unreachable.

Producing a translation does require an external service, because machine translation is not something WordPress can do locally. Gloty sends the text that needs translating to the hosted Gloty translator service, which translates it and returns the result to your site in the background. The results land in your WordPress database, are editable by hand, and keep serving with no further external calls.

Key Features:

• Your database, your translations — stored locally in WordPress, never fetched remotely at render time
• Automatic page translation — captures page output, extracts translatable text, queues it for translation
• Entity-aware — posts, pages, taxonomies, and template strings are tracked as distinct sources with stale detection
• Edit any translation — review and correct translations from Gloty → Translations
• Manual edits are protected — machine sync never silently overwrites a human correction
• Glossary — terms that must never be translated, or that must always render a specific way per language
• SEO-friendly — hreflang tags, translated meta, clean /fr/page/ URLs
• Language switcher — floating widget, footer list, shortcode, or sidebar widget
• Optional browser-language redirect — off by default, crawler-safe, remembered per visitor
• WooCommerce compatible — products, cart, checkout, and store AJAX fragments
• Gettext integration — translates WordPress, theme, and plugin UI strings
• AI translation engine — OpenAI or Google Gemini, selected for you by the service on every plan
• Background processing — queued dispatch with webhook delivery and a polling fallback
• Developer extensible — filters and a REST API

How it works:

1. Install Gloty and connect your site to the Gloty translator service
2. Add your target languages
3. Gloty discovers translatable content from your posts, taxonomies, and template strings
4. Translation runs in the background and the results are written to your database
5. Visitors get translated pages under language-prefixed URLs (/fr/, /de/, …) and can switch languages from the switcher

Translation requires an external machine-translation service. See External services below for exactly what is sent and to whom.

Documentation: https://wp-shelf.com/gloty/docs/

External services

Gloty cannot produce translations without an external machine-translation service, because machine translation is not something WordPress can do locally. This section describes every external request the plugin makes, what it sends, and when.

Nothing is sent anywhere until you have connected your site and translation has been triggered (by a scan, a Translate action, or scheduled background dispatch). Serving an already-translated page makes no external request at all.

1. The Gloty translator service

All translation work is performed by the hosted Gloty translator service. The plugin does not contact machine-translation providers directly; it sends work to the Gloty service, which selects and calls the translation engine on your behalf and delivers the results back to your site.

• Service host: https://api-production-3261.up.railway.app (overridable by defining the GLOTY_SERVICE_URL constant, for example to point at a self-hosted instance of the service).
• What is sent: the source text to be translated (page, post, taxonomy, and template strings from your site), the source and target language codes, your site URL, and a per-site API token and license key used to identify and authenticate your site.
• When: on connection verification, while dispatching queued translation batches, when polling for results, and when the service delivers results back to your site over a signed webhook.
• Who: the Gloty translator service, operated by WP Shelf.
• Terms of service: https://wp-shelf.com/terms
• Privacy policy: https://wp-shelf.com/privacy

The Gloty service in turn passes your text to the AI translation engine it selects for the batch — OpenAI or Google Gemini. Their terms apply to that processing:

• OpenAI — https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use / https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy
• Google Gemini — https://ai.google.dev/terms / https://policies.google.com/privacy

2. WordPress.org translation packs

When you enable a language, Gloty asks WordPress.org to install the official WordPress and plugin language packs for that locale, using WordPress core’s own updater. This is the same request WordPress itself makes and sends no site content.

Gloty does not send analytics, telemetry, or usage tracking anywhere.

Source code

The admin interface is compiled from JavaScript sources before release. The uncompiled, human-readable sources for everything in build/ ship inside the plugin under src/, together with the build configuration in webpack.config.js and package.json. The bundles are produced by @wordpress/scripts (webpack) via the build script in package.json; no minified or obfuscated code is included without its source.