181 – How to visually build your WordPress translations with TranslatePress
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Interview– How to visually build your WordPress translations with TranslatePress
So you’ve got a WordPress website and you know that the audience is going to global. How do you deal with that? You can ignore it and hope that your global audience will all be willing to read it in your chosen language (hint: this is not ideal). Or you can translate all the parts of the site so that users can read in their own language, or at least a variety of languages.
But how do you do this? There’s nothing like this built into WordPress at this time.
Well, meet TranslatePress , and Adrian Spiac who is behind the plugin which will make this a breeze.
When we talked about getting Adrian on the podcast, I had a little look at TranslatePress and decided that it was “a Page Builder for translations”, and I’m happy with that, and so was Adrian!
Rather than taking the appraoch that you’ll want to connect all your translations with a bunch of fields, TranslatePress has a more visual way of doing things.
If you’ve ever used a Page Builder, or the WordPress customizer for that matter, this will be a breeze. You simply point your mouse at any part of the page that you’d like to translate, and select the target language, fill in the text and click save. All done with a front-end view of the site. It really is super simple, and when I say that, I’m not kidding. If you are able to find it on the page with a mouse, you can translate it in a matter of seconds.
You can set up a bunch of languages in the plugin settings and that will determine which languages end users will be able to select on the website. This is done in a traditional way of selecting little flag icons, plus language name on some part of the site, most often tucked away at that bottom or top of the page.
Now, I suspect that you’re thinking that you don’t have the expertise to translate all of the parts of your site into all of the many languages that people speak. Thankfully though, the clever folk over at Google have created their Google Translate technology and you can leverage that for almost near instantaneous translations. It might not be 100%, but in the tests that I carried out, it’s really remarkably good. But rest assured if you want to hook up with professional translations services for a more robust and accurate solution, TranslatePress has you covered there too.
WooCommerce, I hear you cry. Fear not all your Woo stores can be translated in the same simple interface as regular posts and pages – nice!
The best part is that all of this functionality is available for free on the WordPress plugin repository.
However, people who have greater needs might well wish make use of the TranslatePress premium addons. These include:
• SEO Pack – translate all your metadata
• Multiple Languages – have as many languages as you need and only publish what’s ready for viewing
• Automatic User Language Detection – users won’t even need to select their language, they’ll get it automatically
• DeepL Automatic Translation – translate your website using the DeepL API
• Translator Accounts – have professional translators update your content without needing to even access WordPress
• Browse As User Role – check out the site as users will see it, kinda useful for checking it all out
• Navigation Based on Language – alter the menu for different languages
You see, I knew that you were going to like it. Now all you need to do is head over to the TranslatePress website and have a poke around to see if it’s a fit for you (or your clients) WordPress websites.
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