{"id":2417,"date":"2017-11-15T15:52:38","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T10:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedevcouple.com\/?p=2417"},"modified":"2019-09-04T10:30:16","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T05:30:16","slug":"translatepress-build-next-multilingual-site-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedevcouple.com\/translatepress-build-next-multilingual-site-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"TranslatePress \u2013 Build Your Next Multilingual Site in Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"

A multilingual site helps you rank content in local searches and generate more traffic. However, building a multilingual site adds a whole lot of complexity in the site structure. <\/span><\/p>\n

Talking about WordPress, it comes with <\/span>70+ <\/b>language packs<\/strong>. But it allows you to select only one language for your website, which becomes the default language for your dashboard. This is where the WordPress multilingual translation plugins come to the rescue. <\/span><\/p>\n

Today, I am excited to review one such plugin \u2013 <\/span>TranslatePress<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 that helps you build a multilingual website quickly. This is, by far the best translation plugin I have experienced. It provides a unique combination of machine and human translation to translate your website quickly.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Let\u2019s dive into further details to see what it has to offer.<\/span><\/p>\n

TranslatePress<\/span><\/h2>\n

CozmosLabs develop TranslatePress<\/strong><\/span>. CozmosLabs homes a team of nine people and rocks a solid portfolio of <\/span>7 plugins<\/b><\/a> with <\/span>80,000+<\/b> active installs. TranslatePress is their latest product. Launched two months before, it currently enjoys <\/span>800+ <\/b>active installs. <\/span><\/p>\n

One can imagine from these figures that TranslatePress is definitely going to stay and not going anywhere anytime soon. Apart from that, a team behind plugin means regular updates, fixes, and support. <\/span><\/p>\n

TranslatePress allows you to make use of the Google Translation API to automatically translate the strings. The strings can be later modified manually for a better translation. <\/span><\/p>\n

\ud83d\udcb0\u00a0Pricing<\/span><\/h2>\n

TranslatePress comes with both free and premium versions. The<\/span>\u00a0free<\/b> version allows translation in only in one language. While the premium versions come with universal languages translation and SEO support for the multilingual site. <\/span><\/p>\n

Premium versions start from <\/span>$79<\/b>\/year for a single site and<\/b> scale up to <\/span>$199<\/b>\/year for unlimited sites.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u270c\u00a0Features<\/span><\/h2>\n

Let\u2019s quickly go through the list of features that TranslatePress comes with. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u25b6\u00a0WordPress Translation UI:<\/b> TranslatePress makes use of the native UI of WordPress to provide consistent translation experience. \u00a0Just like the customization mode of WordPress, you can translate while looking at the content. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u25b6\u00a0Machine and Human Translation Combined:<\/b> This plugin provides a combined experience of human and machine translation. You can use <\/span>Google Translate API<\/b> to automatically translate the string. Then improve your translation by manually editing the translations.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u25b6\u00a0Multilingual Site SEO:<\/b> The premium version of TranslatePress comes with the SEO Pack Addon that takes care of slug, meta tags, title, and description translation.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u25b6\u00a0Dynamic String Translation:<\/b> TranslatePress features translation of dynamic strings of WordPress, themes, and plugins. It also works fine with <\/span>page builders<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Before I dive into the\u00a0working of the plugin, let me list comprehensively few of the features that help TranslatePress standout. <\/span><\/p>\n

\ud83d\ude48\u00a0The Simplest Translation Interface<\/span><\/h3>\n

TranslatePress provides a very familiar WordPress customization like interface<\/strong>. You can translate what you see on the page. Most of the other translation plugins manage translations in the WordPress dashboard, which requires constant switching and cost time. So, thumbs up for it. \ud83d\udc4d<\/span><\/p>\n

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No matter whether you opt for manual translation or rely on Google Translation API, you\u2019ll end up editing the strings yourself. And you\u2019re definitely going to love the translation experience that TranslatePress has to offer.<\/span><\/p>\n

You can use the navigations buttons for quick strings navigation. In case if you forget to save a translation, it\u2019s going to show you a warning.<\/span><\/p>\n

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On hovering over the elements, you\u2019re going to see and edit icon. Clicking on the icon loads the string for translation and you can start translating that string right away.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Note<\/strong>: TranslatePress automatically loads the translations of the WordPress strings from WordPress language packs, in case if they\u2019re translated. <\/span><\/p>\n

\ud83d\uddc2\u00a0TranslatePress & SEO<\/span><\/h3>\n

One of the primary reason for making a multilingual site is to target multiple nations. And this could only be achieved if your site ranks well in SERPs for local languages. Thus SEO is a major concern while creating a multilingual website.<\/span><\/p>\n

Talking about SEO of the multilingual website, Google has detailed <\/span>documentation<\/span><\/a> for them. Few important points are: <\/span><\/p>\n