Wordpress website in many languages?

Hi all,

I wanted to create a WordPress website in many languages.

First I'd write and publish the necessary content in English, and then have it translated into 10 more languages.

So I picture URLs as whatawebsite.com/en, whatawebsite.com/it, etc.

What's the best way to do it?

Is there a plugin that would automatically create pages for other languages and translate them as well? That's the way I'd like to do it in the beginning to keep the costs down, later I'd hire a translator to do a better job.

And how about the URls? Would it just be regular silos acting as language folders?

Thank you!

WPML would do the job, I shared a version of it here, not "nulled" just original files, download it and play around with it.

As @RoiBox suggested, WPML is the way to go hands down. But for the auto translate part, despite that WPML does it, I wouldn't recommend because they are absurdly expensive. I would say that a VA + manual Deepl is more profitable that just plain auto-translating with them

They charge $180 for 100K words translated with DeepL this is $0.18/100w which is abusive for a automatic job (considering that you can translate chucks of 1K words in seconds, any VA could be doing, at least 10 chucks per hour with ease, which means $2-5 per 10K words or $20-50 for the whole 100K words set, which it is almost 5-10 times cheaper….

Since WPML offers a Translation Management System (you need at least the CMS tier, which means $99.

Using their translation editor tab is really easy, and with WPML you can config a translation editor profile just for someone to copy/paste the content.

SirLouen said:

I would say that a VA + manual Deepl is more profitable that just plain auto-translating with them

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Yes, deepl is gold, I definitely recommend them to.

Never install nulled plugins, if you don't want your server to be hacked.
Use the Polylang plugin. It's free: https://wordpress.org/plugins/polylang/

As for translation part.. I have tested all of them and they were HORRIBLE. Unless you website is less than 30 pages of content you will mess up. WPML creates thousands and thousands of queries in your database for each word. Specially with Gutenberg and any page builder.

I ended up creating my own system with multisite where main site in English and each subsite in another language.

Then with simple php and if condition rewrite create the switch language button and add the headers.

Finally, install loco translate in the subsite and translate it to any language you want.

This way each website is very light as a solo website and database queries are needed. And you can install different analytics code per language which is a must for any decent website

WPML plugin, My website uses this plugin.

TranslatePress is another option to consider =)

Deleted member 752298 said:

TranslatePress is another option to consider =)

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have you ever tested it for auto translation purposes?

Almostbr0ke said:

have you ever tested it for auto translation purposes?

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Nope, we do not use auto translation.

Have any of you saw droppings in rankings by using auto translate plug-ins that utilize DeepL?