Title: Prisna GWT – Google Website Translator
Author: Prisna
Published: September 30, 2014
Last modified: December 8, 2025
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# Prisna GWT – Google Website Translator
By [Prisna](https://profiles.wordpress.org/prisna/)
[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/google-website-translator.1.4.15.zip)
* [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-website-translator/#description)
* [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-website-translator/#reviews)
* [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-website-translator/#installation)
* [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-website-translator/#developers)
[Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/google-website-translator/)
## Description
This plugin brings the power of Google’s automatic translation service to translate
your website into 100+ languages. A simple and complete multilingual solution for
WordPress.
#### Features:
* Easy set up, including simple settings with inline help that everybody can understand.
* Include all the [3 inline](http://www.prisna.net/images/google-website-translator/inline-mode.png)
and all the [4 tabbed](http://www.prisna.net/images/google-website-translator/tabbed-mode.png)
styles.
* Select the available languages.
* Use it as a widget and as a shortcode.
* Practically null impact on page loads.
* Import/Export settings to easily transfer configurations.
* For feature requests, please [contact us](https://www.prisna.net/contact-us/).
#### Support:
* Create a ticket here in the WordPress support forum: [https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/google-website-translator](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/google-website-translator)
* Or you can also ask for assistance directly from our website: [https://www.prisna.net/contact-us/](https://www.prisna.net/contact-us/)
#### Advantages over similar plugins:
There are a number of Google translation plugins in this great repository. However,
most of them haven’t been carefully built. Here’s a list of reasons of why you should
choose this plugin:
* All the settings are stored in only one record in the database; whilst other
plugins use lots of records.
* It’s the fastest as it doesn’t load any external file; whilst other plugins load
unnecessary javascript and css files.
* It includes all the options of the original [Google Website Translator](https://translate.google.com/manager/website/);
whilst other plugins offer just a restricted version.
* Prisna Ltd. is a real company ([register record](https://www.prisna.net/images/prisna-limited.pdf)),
with professional people working on it.
## Screenshots
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* General admin panel (inline).
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* General admin panel (tabbed).
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* Advanced admin panel.
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* Import/Export admin panel.
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* Go premium panel.
## Installation
1. Go to the WordPress admin panel.
2. Click _Plugins_, then _Add New_, then _Upload Plugin_.
3. Select the downloaded zip file, install it and activate it.
4. A new entry will appear under the _Plugins_ main menu: _Prisna GWT_.
5. Set options at will.
6. Either go to the _Widgets_ admin page, or use the shortcode on your pages, posts,
categories and any other WordPress resource.
## FAQ
### What are the supported languages?
Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bambara,
Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Catalan, Cebuano,
Chichewa, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
Dhivehi, Dogri, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Ewe, Filipino, Finnish, French,
Frisian, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Guarani, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hausa,
Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo, Ilocano, Indonesian,
Irish, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Kinyarwanda, Konkani,
Korean, Krio, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Lao, Latin, Latvian, Lingala, Lithuanian, Luganda,
Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Maithili, Malagasy, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Maori,
Marathi, Meiteilon, Mizo, Mongolian, Nepali, Norwegian, Odia, Oromo, Pashto, Persian,
Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Quechua, Romanian, Russian, Samoan, Sanskrit, Scots
Gaelic, Sepedi, Serbian, Sesotho, Shona, Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali,
Sorani, Spanish, Sundanese, Swahili, Swedish, Tajik, Tamil, Tatar, Telugu, Thai,
Tigrinya, Tsonga, Turkish, Turkmen, Twi, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uyghur, Uzbek, Vietnamese,
Welsh, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba and Zulu.
### How can I exclude some parts from being translated?
You should go to:
Advanced > General > Exclude selector (jQuery)
Enter a _jQuery_ selector to specify the area(s) you’d like to exclude from translation.
Alternatively, you can add the _notranslate_ style class to the container HTML element.
Or if you want to exclude just a piece of text, you should wrap it within a HTML
element with the _notranslate_ style class, for instance:
Company name
### I have a lot of plugins, will this plugin slow down my website?
This plugin has a lot of options for you to customize it in the best possible way.
All these options are saved in only one database record (yes, only one!). So you
can rest assured it won’t slow down your website. Sometimes your website slows down
when you use more and more plugins, because most likely they haven’t been built
carefully. If you have some understanding of code, you can search for the _add\_option_
function within your plugins files to check on this matter.
### Google translate is not free, do I need to pay any money to use this plugin?
No, you don’t need to pay anything. Even though Google translate isn’t free anymore,
Google has created a free translation widget for everybody to use. This plugin brings
you that widget for you to easily use it in your WordPress powered website.
### What kind of support do you provide?
Support includes:
* Responding to questions or problems regarding the plugin and its features.
* Fixing bugs and reported issues.
* Providing updates to ensure compatibility with new WordPress versions.
## Reviews
### [Useful and lightweight](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/useful-and-lightweight-6/)
[jfanto](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jfanto/) June 9, 2025
Excellent! The support team kindly provided me with instructions to make my customization.
Thank you very much
### [Waste of time, free and pro version](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/waste-of-time-free-and-pro-version/)
[lagiulsss](https://profiles.wordpress.org/lagiulsss/) May 26, 2025
I bought the Pro version thinking it could have been more usefull but it turned
out to be a massive waste of time, money, and energy. Here are just a few of the
many issues I experienced: You constantly need to buy translation credits – the
plugin connects to DeepL or Google Translate via API, but the translations are not
stored if not manually saved. Once the quota runs out, the plugin stops translating.
The Replace feature is extremely limited – if you try to add too many terms to be
automatically replaced across the site, your website slows down dramatically or
crashes. On-site editing is painfully slow – you have to translate sentence by sentence
directly from the frontend, and there’s no global string replacement unless the
exact same HTML tag is used. For example, if a product name is wrapped in and
you translate it, it won’t apply if the same name appears later in
. You’ll
have to translate it again manually. No support for AJAX-based filters – if users
filter products on a shop or category page, the language switches back to English
until the page is manually refreshed. Completely breaks the multilingual experience.
Pages must be visited before being translated – the plugin needs to cache every
single page before you can start translating it. This is incredibly time-consuming
and inefficient for large shops. Translated URLs are not reusable or modular – you
have to manually translate each URL segment every time. Woocommerce product categories
has to be translated in full for every subcategory. You can’t save the base and
reuse it for similar pages. Same story for breadcrumbs. Sometimes refreshing the
page breaks the layout – we experienced several cases where translated pages failed
to render properly after refreshing. Support is arrogant and dismissive – they blamed
my site setup (a standard WooCommerce with AJAX filtering), and when I reported
continued problems, they refused a refund despite their own policy stating refunds
would be issued if problems couldn’t be resolved. In short: this plugin might look
flexible on paper, but it’s full of limitations and does not scale well for real-
world ecommerce use. If you run a WooCommerce store or care about performance and
translation accuracy, stay away.
### [A perfect translation plugin and a perfect support team](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-perfect-translation-plugin-and-a-perfect-support-team/)
[jcj7421](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jcj7421/) February 21, 2024
The google translation plugin works perfectly. A minor disadvantage is that you
can only use the google translation mechanism but it’s rather an advantage because,
as long as you have a google cloud credit you use it directly, then you switch to
the prisna interface onto the google translation service which is free (!). Last
but not less, the support team is incredibly fast and efficient. I’ve never seen
such quality in my long career as a computer scientist.
### [Great](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-16043/)
[hudsoncss](https://profiles.wordpress.org/hudsoncss/) December 18, 2023
Great plugin. It allows to offer a complete list and icons for specifics languages
all together.
### [Could be better](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/poorly-built-2/)
[johnmestebeld](https://profiles.wordpress.org/johnmestebeld/) January 6, 2023
It works
### [Awesome Plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/too-buggy-stops-working-all-the-time/)
[Shizart](https://profiles.wordpress.org/shizart/) March 10, 2022 3 replies
Awesome Plugin
[ Read all 55 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/google-website-translator/reviews/)
## Contributors & Developers
“Prisna GWT – Google Website Translator” is open source software. The following
people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
* [ Prisna ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/prisna/)
[Translate “Prisna GWT – Google Website Translator” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/google-website-translator)
### Interested in development?
[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/google-website-translator/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/google-website-translator/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/google-website-translator/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/google-website-translator/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).
## Changelog
#### 1.5
* 29 new languages: Assamese, Aymara, Bambara, Bhojpuri, Dhivehi, Dogri, Ewe, Guarani,
Ilocano, Kinyarwanda, Konkani, Krio, Lingala, Luganda, Maithili, Meiteilon, Mizo,
Odia, Oromo, Quechua, Sanskrit, Sepedi, Sorani, Tatar, Tigrinya, Tsonga, Turkmen,
Twi and Uyghur.
#### 1.4
* 13 new languages: Amharic, Corsican, Frisian, Hawaiian, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Luxembourgish,
Pashto, Samoan, Scots Gaelic, Shona, Sindhi and Xhosa.
#### 1.3
* Ability to define a jQuery selector to exclude elements from translation.
#### 1.2
* Ability to define a new javascript function: on before load.
* Ability to define a new javascript function: on after load.
#### 1.1
* 29 new languages: Armenian, Bengali, Bosnian, Burmese, Cebuano, Chichewa, Hausa,
Hmong, Igbo, Javanese, Kazakh, Khmer, Lao, Malagasy, Malayalam, Maltese, Maori,
Marathi, Mongolian, Nepali, Punjabi, Sesotho, Sinhala, Somali, Tajik, Uzbek,
Yoruba and Zulu.
* Combined flags into one single image file.
* Higher quality flags.
#### 1.0
## Meta
* Version **1.4.15**
* Last updated **4 months ago**
* Active installations **8,000+**
* WordPress version ** 3.3 or higher **
* Tested up to **6.9.4**
* PHP version ** 5.6 or higher **
* Tags
* [google translate](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/google-translate/)[multilingual](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/multilingual/)
[translate](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/translate/)[translate wordpress](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/translate-wordpress/)
[translation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/translation/)
* [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-website-translator/advanced/)
## Ratings
4.5 out of 5 stars.
* [ 44 5-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/google-website-translator/reviews/?filter=5)
* [ 0 4-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/google-website-translator/reviews/?filter=4)
* [ 5 3-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/google-website-translator/reviews/?filter=3)
* [ 1 2-star review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/google-website-translator/reviews/?filter=2)
* [ 4 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/google-website-translator/reviews/?filter=1)
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## Contributors
* [ Prisna ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/prisna/)
## Support
Issues resolved in last two months:
1 out of 1
[View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/google-website-translator/)