Title: Sawir Live Translate Author: Ricardo Sawir Published: July 2, 2026 Last modified: July 2, 2026 --- Search plugins ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/sawir-live-translate.svg) # Sawir Live Translate By [Ricardo Sawir](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sawirricardo/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/sawir-live-translate.1.0.0.zip) * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/sawir-live-translate/#description) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/sawir-live-translate/#reviews) * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/sawir-live-translate/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/sawir-live-translate/) ## Description Open any page on your site, click “Translate this page” in the admin bar, choose a target language, and either auto-translate every visible string (via a free machine- translation service) or edit translations by hand while seeing the page update live. Saved translations are rendered server-side into the HTML response (SEO-friendly: no flash of untranslated text, and hreflang alternates in the head), and visitors switch languages via a link-based switcher (bottom-right). Developed by Ricardo Sawir for Sawir Studio LLC. * Website: https://sawirstudio.com * X: https://x.com/RicardoSawir * GitHub: https://github.com/sawirricardo * Email: ricardo@sawirstudio.com URLs use a language path prefix, e.g. /es/about for Spanish, /about for the source language (which stays canonical, un-prefixed). Language is resolved in this order:/ es/ path ?lang=es saved cookie browser Accept-Language source. Root and prefix- less URLs auto-detect the visitor’s browser language without redirecting (a Vary header is sent so shared caches behave). 1. Settings Live Translate: set your source language and tick the languages to offer. 2. Visit a front-end page and click “🌐 Translate this page” in the admin bar. 3. Pick a language, hit “Auto-translate empty” (or edit strings), then “Save”. 4. Visitors use the switcher (bottom-right); each language has its own /xx/ URL. Note: language path prefixes assume a root-domain install and no top-level page whose slug is a two-letter language code. ### External services This plugin’s optional “Auto-translate” feature (admin-only, triggered manually by clicking an Auto-translate/Translate button) sends the source text strings and the chosen language pair to the MyMemory translation API (https://mymemory.translated. net/) to fetch machine translations. The request is made from the administrator’s browser only when they click the button; no visitor data is ever sent, and nothing is sent automatically. * Service terms: https://mymemory.translated.net/doc/en/tos.php * Privacy policy: https://mymemory.translated.net/doc/en/privacy.php Developers can swap the provider — see “Custom translation provider” below. ### Native WordPress localization (dates, core/theme strings) On a translated request the plugin switches WordPress’s locale to the target language, so dates (month/day names) and any _installed_ core, theme, and plugin translations render natively — the string map only covers the rest. For this to have visible effect the language pack must be installed. The easiest way is Settings General Site Language: pick and save the language once (which downloads its pack), then switch back to your source language. Languages without an installed pack still work for content translation; only native dates/strings are skipped. Map codes to custom WP locales with the ‘sawir_lt_wp_locale’ filter. ### Scan site for strings Settings Live Translate “Scan site now” crawls your published pages, posts, and public archives to discover every translatable string up front (batched, with a progress indicator). Discovered strings then appear in the “Edit all site strings” section right below, where you can pick a language and translate, auto- translate, or bulk-import the whole site at once instead of page by page. Note: machine translation is still rate-limited by the free service, so for large sites use Bulk edit to export and translate elsewhere. ### Multisite Multisite-aware. Each subsite has its own settings and its own translations table, configured independently. Tables are created on network activation, when a new subsite is created, and lazily on first admin visit; uninstall cleans every site on the network. ### Custom switcher Turn off “Built-in switcher” in settings and render your own anywhere in your theme using sawir_lt_switcher_links(), which returns the language links for the current page: ``` ``` Each item is [‘code’,’name’,’url’,’active’,’is_source’] (code is ” for the source language). sawir_lt_current_lang() returns the active language code. ### Custom translation provider Auto-translate uses the free MyMemory API by default. To use your own provider ( DeepL, Google, a local model, …), reassign window.SawirLT.translate from a script enqueued after the ‘sawir-lt-walk’ handle. Signature: it receives the source text and the two language codes, and returns a Promise resolving to the translated string. Every auto-translate path (in-page editor and admin bulk translate) routes through it. ``` add_action( 'admin_enqueue_scripts', 'myprefix_lt_provider' ); add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'myprefix_lt_provider' ); function myprefix_lt_provider() { if ( wp_script_is( 'sawir-lt-walk', 'registered' ) ) { wp_enqueue_script( 'myprefix-lt-provider', plugins_url( 'provider.js', __FILE__ ), array( 'sawir-lt-walk' ), '1.0.0', true ); } } ``` provider.js: ``` window.SawirLT.translate = function ( text, source, target ) { return fetch( 'https://example.com/translate', { method: 'POST', body: JSON.stringify( { text: text, from: source, to: target } ) } ).then( function ( r ) { return r.json(); } ) .then( function ( j ) { return j.translation; } ); };

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``` The plugin’s own admin/UI text is translation-ready (text domain “sawir-live-translate”). A .pot template ships in /languages — drop your .po/.mo there or under wp-content/ languages/plugins/. (The in-page editor’s JavaScript labels are not yet localized.) ### Other plugins by Sawir Studio * [Sawir Restock Notifier for WooCommerce](https://wordpress.org/plugins/sawir-restock-notifier-for-woocommerce/)— let customers request an email when an out-of-stock product is back. * [Sawir Product Image Zoom for WooCommerce](https://wordpress.org/plugins/sawir-product-image-zoom-for-woocommerce/)— product image lightbox with navigation and click-to-zoom. * [Sawir Variation Gallery Tools for WooCommerce](https://wordpress.org/plugins/sawir-variation-gallery-tools-woocommerce/)— manage variation-specific gallery images. * [Sawir Role Capabilities Manager](https://wordpress.org/plugins/sawir-role-capabilities-manager/)— create custom user roles and manage capabilities. ## Reviews There are no reviews for this plugin. ## Contributors & Developers “Sawir Live Translate” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Ricardo Sawir ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sawirricardo/) [Translate “Sawir Live Translate” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/sawir-live-translate) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sawir-live-translate/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/sawir-live-translate/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/sawir-live-translate/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/sawir-live-translate/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 1.0.0 * Initial release. ## Meta * Version **1.0.0** * Last updated **1 day ago** * Active installations **Fewer than 10** * WordPress version ** 5.8 or higher ** * Tested up to **7.0** * PHP version ** 7.4 or higher ** * Tags * [localization](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/localization/)[multilingual](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/multilingual/) [translation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/translation/) * [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/sawir-live-translate/advanced/) ## Ratings No reviews have been submitted yet. [Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/sawir-live-translate/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/sawir-live-translate/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ Ricardo Sawir ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sawirricardo/) ## Support Got something to say? Need help? [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/sawir-live-translate/)