Traducto

Description

Traducto turns your WordPress website into a multilingual site in a few clicks — with any theme and any page builder (Gutenberg, Elementor, Divi, WPBakery, Bricks, Beaver Builder…). Content is translated automatically using free translation engines, and every single translation can be reviewed, edited or kept in the original language from a dedicated Translation Manager screen in your dashboard.

No API key. No account. No word limit. No page limit. Everything described below is included and fully functional.

Translation happens on its own

There is no “translate” button to press and no batch to run. Pick your languages, and from that moment on every page is translated on the fly: the first time a visitor opens a page in one of your languages, Traducto translates it as it is rendered, stores every string, and serves it instantly from then on — to that visitor and to all the others. New posts, edited pages and changed menus are picked up the same way, automatically.

What it does

• Translates your site into as many of the 60+ supported languages as you like
• Full Page mode translates the whole rendered page — content, headers, footers, menus, widgets, page-builder output — not just post content. Content Only mode is a lighter fallback for sites where that conflicts with another plugin
• Every automatic translation is stored, so a string is only ever translated once and then served instantly — including strings shared between pages, like your menu and footer
• Full Translation Manager: search, filter, edit any translation inline, mark strings as Ignored (keep the original — great for brand names), reset to automatic, or add your own translations by hand
• Language switcher as a shortcode, a widget, an optional floating switcher, or a PHP template tag — dropdown or flat list, real SVG flags (not emoji), native language names
• SEO basics done right: hreflang tags, <html lang> and dir="rtl" set automatically, full right-to-left language support
• Image alt/title text, form placeholders and button labels are translated too
• CSV / JSON export of every translation — a backup you can open in any spreadsheet
• Works with WP Rocket page caching out of the box
• Fails safe: if an engine is ever unreachable, your site simply shows the original text — it never breaks

Two free translation engines, no setup

• Google Translate (Free) — Google’s public translation endpoint, no key required
• MyMemory Translation API (Free) — a free, documented translation memory API
• Pick whichever one you want tried first on the Settings tab; if it fails or is temporarily rate limited, Traducto retries with the other automatically
• Nothing has to be configured: translation works as soon as you pick your languages

Requirements

• WordPress 6.2+
• PHP 7.4+ with the DOM extension (standard on virtually every host)
• Any theme, any page builder

Traducto Premium

Traducto Premium is a separate plugin by the same author, for sites that need a few extras: language-prefixed URLs (/fr/your-page/) with translated slugs, a Pre-translate tool that translates the whole site ahead of time, scheduled pre-translation and automatic re-translation when you edit a page, multilingual sitemaps for Yoast SEO and Rank Math, a WooCommerce integration, a DeepL translation engine (a free DeepL API key is all you need), translated meta description and Open Graph/Twitter tags, automatic browser-language detection, CSV/JSON import, and a native Divi 5 “Language Switcher” module. It is not required, and nothing in this plugin is disabled or limited without it.

External services

Traducto sends the text of the pages it translates (and nothing else — no visitor data, no personal data) to third-party translation services, only when a translation is needed for a string that has never been translated before. The result is stored in your own database and never requested again. No request is made to either service while visitors browse your site in its original language.

Google Translate (translate.googleapis.com)
Used by default for every translation. The text to translate, plus the source and target language codes, are sent to Google.
Terms of Service: https://policies.google.com/terms
Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

MyMemory Translation API, by Translated (api.mymemory.translated.net)
Used automatically whenever Google Translate fails or rate limits this server. The text to translate, plus the source and target language codes, are sent to MyMemory.
Terms of Service: https://mymemory.translated.net/terms-and-conditions
Usage limits: https://mymemory.translated.net/doc/usagelimits.php
Privacy Policy: https://translated.com/confidentiality