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This plugin aims to provide a way to ensure that any language change in the content of a page is indicated to assistive technologies at the container block level, helping a website comply with WCAG guidelines.
This feature is available on the core block editor only at a text formatting level after code from <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/lang-attribute/" rel="ugc">Jb Audras plugin “Lang Attribute for the Block Editor”</a> was merged into core. The objective of this plugin is to provide the same functionality at a container block level (Group – including all its variants, Columns, Cover, and other specific block types) so that the language applies to all child elements, no matter the kind of content inside.
This plugin is heavily inspired by the Jb Audras plugin (including this readme file), and the development started at WordCamp Europe 2025 Contributor Day, by Marco Almeida from <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/nakedcatplugins/" rel="nofollow ugc">Naked Cat Plugins</a> / <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/webdados/" rel="nofollow ugc">Webdados</a>, and the help from <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/welcher/" rel="nofollow ugc">Ryan Welcher</a> on the code side and <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/alh0319/" rel="nofollow ugc">Amber Hinds</a> on the accessibility compliance side.
For more context: this plugin helps you to make your website compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) success criterion 3.1.2: “Language of Parts”. The purpose of this success Criterion is to ensure that user agents can correctly present content written in multiple languages.
Keep in mind that you should only set the lang and dir attributes to a container block if the content you’re going to insert inside it is written in a different language than that set globally on your website.
As per Web Content Accessibility Guidelines:
This makes it possible for user agents and assistive technologies to present content according to the presentation and pronunciation rules for that language. This applies to graphical browsers as well as screen readers, braille displays, and other voice browsers.
Both assistive technologies and conventional user agents can render text more accurately if the language of each passage of text is identified. Screen readers can use the pronunciation rules of the language of the text. Visual browsers can display characters and scripts in appropriate ways.
This is especially important when switching between languages that read from left to right and languages that read from right to left, or when text is rendered in a language that uses a different alphabet. Users with disabilities who know all the languages used in the Web page will be better able to understand the content when each passage is rendered appropriately.
That’s not just good for accessibility. It’s also great for SEO. Search engines like Google can better understand your content when languages are clearly defined. That means improved indexing and potentially better rankings.
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<h3>Supported block types</h3>
<ul>
<li>Group (<code>core/group</code>): Group contents together and set a language for them</li>
<li>Columns (<code>core/columns</code> and <code>core/column</code>): Organize content into a set of columns and set a language for all the columns or a specific column</li>
<li>Cover (<code>core/cover</code>): Set the language to all the contents inside a cover block</li>
<li>Navigation (<code>core/navigation</code>): Create full navigation menus in different languages</li>
<li>Submenu (<code>core/navigation-submenu</code>): Set a different language on a sub-section of your menu (for example, if you have the default language pages on the first level and a sub-menu with pages in another language)</li>
<li>Page List (<code>core/page-list</code>): List all the pages on your website that are written in a different language and created as a child of the main page of that language</li>
<li>Content (<code>core/post-content</code>): Set the post content on a custom template to a different language</li>
</ul>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Add “lang” and “dir” attributes to Group, Columns, Cover, and other specific WordPress Blocks</li>
<li>Show visual outline around blocks that have a language attribute set – For easy identification of blocks you have already set to a different language during your editing process, only for Administrators and Editors, and if enabled in Settings – Writing</li>
</ul>

Language Attribute for Container Blocks

Add “lang” and “dir” attributes to Group, Columns, Cover, and other specific WordPress Blocks.

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Weglot Translate Team

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<h3>Translate your website into multiple languages and manage translations effortlessly to go multilingual on WordPress. Designed to be user-friendly.</h3>
Weglot Translate is an all-in-one <a href="https://www.weglot.com/integrations/wordpress-translation-plugin" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress translation plugin</a>, trusted by 70,000+ users worldwide. Translate your WordPress website into 110+ languages and go multilingual within minutes, no coding required.
Get the first layer of translation powered by top-tier AI engines (DeepL, Google, Microsoft), then refine with full human control through your Weglot Dashboard for each language you manage.
✨ Want your translations to reflect your brand voice instantly? 
Build your own <a href="https://www.weglot.com/blog/ai-language-model" rel="nofollow ugc">AI Translation Language Model</a> powered by OpenAI and Gemini, to generate more natural, accurate translations that are custom to your business using your glossary, past edits, and style preferences.
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<h3>How Weglot Translate works</h3>
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<h3>Why Weglot Translate: AI Translation and Multilingual Easy for WordPress</h3>
It’s easy to install: Weglot Translate is quick to set up to have a <a href="https://weglot.com/best-practice-guide-for-wordpress-multilingual-websites/" rel="nofollow ugc">multilingual WordPress website</a> ready, instantly. Just add the languages you want through your WordPress admin, and a language switcher will be added to your website so visitors can change the site language in one click.. Reach millions of new visitors worldwide with a few clicks, without any coding. AI website translation has never been simpler.
It’s built for maximum compatibility: Weglot Translate is fully compatible with all platforms, WooCommerce, WordPress themes, and plugins, like Yoast SEO. From WooCommerce product descriptions to Elementor order forms, it translates everything into the languages of your choice from one interface. This way, you can focus on your content, not the technical details of translation.
It’s optimized for SEO: Weglot Translate follows Google’s best practices for multilingual website translation (including translated metadata, language-specific URLs, and hreflang tags), serving all translated web pages with clean source code. Google will automatically index every translated page with dedicated URLs for each language, which is essential when you care about SEO for your language on WordPress.
It’s easy to set and forget: Weglot Translate automatically detects all your website content for easy AI translation. No more time-consuming manual duplication of every single line of content to get a multilingual website. All translations are updated in real-time; no maintenance to worry about. Plus, any newly added content, regardless of language, is automatically translated.
It takes translation quality seriously: Weglot Translate gives you an edge on your translation tasks with a two-layer approach to quality. The first layer delivers fast, reliable machine translations from best-in-class providers like DeepL, Google Translate, and Microsoft. The second layer is your own: full control to edit, collaborate, or order professional translations right in the interface. Or, refine translations with AI suggestions or your custom language model.
It partners with the pros: Weglot Translate lets you order from vetted professional translators directly inside your Weglot dashboard. Set your preferred <a href="https://weglot.com/translation-quality/" rel="nofollow ugc">translation quality</a> with Weglot Translate.
It’s brand-aware: Generate AI translations that reflect your tone and terminology automatically and at scale with the glossary and the AI language model.
“The biggest win for us is the time we’ve saved. It takes us about ten minutes twice a week to double-check everything is running how we want it. Everything else is done by Weglot.” 
Adèle Aubry – Ecommerce Manager, The Bradery 
<a href="https://www.weglot.com/customers/the-bradery" rel="nofollow ugc">Read the case study</a>
<h3>Multilingual & AI Translation Features Like No Other</h3>
Increase visibility: All translated pages are automatically indexed following Google’s best practices with dedicated URLs for each language. Get new traffic with your multilingual website through top-notch translations.
Reduce bounce rate: Redirect visitors automatically to serve them translations in the language of their choice, based on their browser settings.
Enhance user experience: From the landing page to the email confirmation, get all your key conversion steps translated into your customers’ language.
Localize media assets: You can even add different images and videos for various languages. Useful for images with text, Weglot Translate makes it easy to display “translated” images in your website translations. Media localization is an essential aspect of any multilingual project and Weglot Translate makes it simple to do so.
Boost content with AI: Instantly generate translations using industry-leading machine translation. Then take it further with a custom AI Language Model that adapts to your tone and brand, improving with every validation or glossary update for hands-off translation quality.
“We really loved the localization features provided by Weglot, such as the ability to translate images and other types of media depending on the language the visitor is viewing the site in.” 
Kim Martin – Senior Communications and Marketing Officer, The Challenge Initiative 
<a href="https://weglot.com/customers/the-challenge-initiative/" rel="nofollow ugc">Read the case study</a>
<h3>An all-in-one language translation plugin</h3>
<ul>
<li>Manage and edit all of your translations through a user-friendly interface. Plus, the options to mark translations as pending so a team member can approve or deny them</li>
<li>Collaborate with team members and trusted translators to manage AI translations, directly inside Weglot.</li>
<li>Is it a title? Is it a link? No more guessing the context of the text. Weglot Translate’s visual in-context editor lets you translate directly on a live preview of your website.</li>
<li>Make it your own. The multilingual language switcher is fully customizable with multiple design choices. Choose what flags you want to represent a language in, or none at all.</li>
<li>Build your own glossary and avoid the repetitive task of editing the same terms. Define translation rules to be automatically applied throughout your content. Or customize your AI language model to ensure your translations sound just like you out of the box.</li>
<li>Weglot Translate makes it easy to migrate from other WordPress multilingual plugins like Polylang or WPML. Simply deactivate your existing translation plugin and install Weglot Translate.</li>
</ul>
“Weglot removed the pain of having to manage multiple stores for multiple locales. The integration was easy, and the support is incredibly helpful. I highly recommend Weglot to anyone looking for a simple and cost-effective solution to translate their stores!” 
Mike Robertson – Director of Sales Operations, Nikon
With an increase in site visitors and session duration thanks to your multilingual website, you can expect a massive boost to your conversions. See why thousands of e-commerce platforms, SaaS firms, marketplaces, corporate websites, and blogs worldwide love Weglot Translate for its multilingual powers. <a href="https://dashboard.weglot.com/register-wordpress" rel="nofollow ugc">Try it today for free</a>
<h3>Why should you have a multilingual website?</h3>
It’s easy to forget all about other languages when setting up your online business! With the resources needed to put together a new website, multilingual capabilities are very commonly ignored, as the process of getting multiple translations can get complicated and expensive. But ignoring the importance of being multilingual can be a costly mistake: unlocking the possibility for visitors to read and interact in their own language means you’ll be significantly widening your reach, increasing your chances of business success!
This is why it’s important to think of ways to offer translations in more languages: multilingual websites naturally rank in more countries and attract more potential customers. Your visitors will also feel like you are significantly more localized by speaking to them in a language they easily understand!
But how about the cost and headache to set up a proper multilingual website offering high quality translations? This is where Weglot can make it easy: with a simple way to unlock multilingual capabilities swiftly, your website can go from targeted towards a single language to multilingual in an easy, affordable manner!
Please note that Weglot is using Cloudfront CDN to display flags images to speed up performance around the world. 
The use of this CDN and of Weglot service is subject to Weglot <a href="https://weglot.com/terms/" rel="nofollow ugc">terms of service</a>
“Using Weglot for translations, it is easy to find content with the required phrase, changes are visible online in real time. Weglot is my translation library – finally, no additional files are needed. I appreciate the workflow and the intuitive navigation.” 
Joanna Kruszewska, Marketing Assistant – Social Media and Translations, Olympus Cameras
<h3>High language support</h3>
Add any of these languages to your website:
Afrikaans, Akan, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Assamese, Azerbaijani, Bambara, Bashkir, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Burmese, Catalan, Cebuano, Chichewa, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, Fijian, Filipino, French, French Canadian, Western Frisian, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Georgian, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Hawaiian, Icelandic, Igbo, Indonesian, Inuktitut, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Central Khmer, Kinyarwanda, Korean, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Latin, Luganda, Luxembourgish, Lao, Lithuanian, Latvian, Macedonian, Malagasy, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Māori, Mongolian, Marathi, Nepali, Norwegian, Oromo, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian (Latin), Samoan, Serbian (Cyrillic), Sindhi, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Shona, Somali, Southern Sotho, Spanish, Sundanese, Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Tajik, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tatar, Telugu, Thai, Tibetan, Tigrinya, Tongan, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uyghur, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zulu
Don’t see your language on the list or want to add a language variation? Create a custom language based on templates (British English, Canadian French, etc.) or start from scratch.
<h3>Plugin Dependency on Weglot</h3>
This plugin relies on Weglot, a third-party translation service, to provide multilingual support for your website. Weglot allows you to translate your website content into multiple languages seamlessly and efficiently. By using this plugin, your content will be sent to Weglot’s servers for translation and then delivered back to your site.
<h3>Important Links</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.weglot.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Weglot Service</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.weglot.com/terms" rel="nofollow ugc">Weglot Terms of Service</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.weglot.com/security" rel="nofollow ugc">Weglot Security Policy</a></li>
</ul>
By using this plugin, you agree to Weglot’s terms and policies. Please review these documents to understand how your data and content are managed and protected.
<h3>Impact of Discontinuing Weglot</h3>
If you decide to stop using Weglot, your website will no longer be translated. All translations are stored on Weglot’s servers. However, you can export all your translations using our import/export feature before discontinuing the service to save your translations. More details on how to do this can be found <a href="https://support.weglot.com/article/206-can-i-export-my-translations" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a>. If you do not have access to this feature, you can request support from Weglot to assist with the export before you leave.

Translate WordPress and go Multilingual – Weglot AI Translation Plugin

I'm not an authority on translated text, but as far as I can see the automatic translation works well and we are also able to add our manual transitions where needed. Support is reliable, helpful and fast.

Works well!

Awesome

Very easy to use and very helpful support. Recommended. 

Easy to use and very helpful support


It does not have a free option, it gives only a free trial. You can easily reach their 2000 words limit. Maybe with 2-3 posts? Why are wordpress admins still keeping this plugin here? Lots of plugins here only offer a free trial or pro features and they keep advertising these plugins here. They can advertise their paid plugin on their website.


Why this plugin is here?

Great plugin and support!


We’ve been using Weglot on our client’s site for 2 years now, and we’re super satisfied with it! It’s a very complex project with custom-built translations for specific site needs, and Weglot fits perfectly alongside them.



The plugin provides fast and high-quality translations that make managing a multilingual site so much easier.



Their support team is amazing—fast, friendly, and super knowledgeable.



If you’re looking for a multilingual solution for WordPress, we highly recommend Weglot!


Good tool with grate support


Una manera sencilla y rápida de tener traducida una web. El soporte que ofrece Weglot es excelente, me han resuelto varias dudas de forma rápida y eficiente.


Buen plugin y buen soporte


We recently encountered an issue where enabling the Weglot plugin caused blank PDFs when using PDF Invoices & Packing Slips for WooCommerce. The Weglot team was incredibly responsive — they quickly identified the cause and released a fix. After updating to the latest version, everything is working perfectly again.



It's rare to see such fast and effective support. Weglot not only offers a great translation solution but also backs it up with excellent customer service. Highly recommended!


Fast and Effective Support!


I want to thank all the people who helped me with my issue. Even though it looked like it was impossible to find a solution they did it in the end.


Excellent support from Antoine


Not only is this a great out-of-the-box solution, their support is amazing.  We'll be using this on many projects.  


Amazing Support


I hate to go against the reviews here, but support is not helpful.



I couldn't set up the plugin locally, provided the response from their API, they requested a video as well.



I'm pasting the response I got from support after:




Thanks for the video ;)



In fact, it is a really strange behavior because I tested the API key on a local test website I have (a .local one), and it is working perfectly.



Do you have another local website on which you could test it?




At this point I decided to self support myself. 



I can't help but think I lost my time speaking to a person who basically told me to reboot my machine, in IT terms. "Works on my local". That's great ... for this support person I guess.



I don't recommend this plugin if you run into issues that require support to think about the problem at  hand and not following a defined set of rules. Based on my experience you will lose time that could better be spent figuring it out by yourself. 


Terrible support.

Translate your website into multiple languages and manage translations effortlessly to go multilingual on WordPress. Designed to be user-friendly.

Language Attribute for Container Blocks vs Translate WordPress and go Multilingual – Weglot AI Translation Plugin