proxylang

<p><strong>Instant website translation and SEO to grow your global traffic. Get lang prefixes, hreflang tags, and automated sitemaps for Google. No complex DNS setup needed. Launch your multilingual store or site in 60 seconds.</strong></p>
<h4>Why Proxylang</h4>
<p>WordPress translation generally takes one of three approaches:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Database plugins</strong>: store duplicated translated content in your database and often involve manual translation work.</li>
<li><strong>DNS proxies</strong>: require CNAME or nameserver changes that some managed hosts don’t allow.</li>
<li><strong>Browser translate widgets</strong>: translate in the visitor’s browser but aren’t indexed by search engines.</li>
</ul>
<p>Proxylang gives you real indexed per-language URLs, server-rendered SEO for search crawlers, and instant in-browser translation for visitors — with no DNS changes:</p>
<ul>
<li>Real per-language URLs (<code>yoursite.com/es-MX/about</code>) indexed by Google</li>
<li>AI translation in 68 languages with context-aware quality</li>
<li>Server-rendered translated HTML for search-engine bots (Googlebot, Bingbot, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity)</li>
<li>Instant client-side translation for human visitors. No page re-render</li>
<li>Auto-generated hreflang tags, per-language XML sitemaps, robots.txt</li>
<li>WooCommerce Product JSON-LD localized for Google Shopping rich results</li>
<li>Translation glossary so brand terms always render the way you want</li>
<li>Full analytics dashboard with anonymous visitor tracking, languages, countries, top pages</li>
<li>Zero DNS setup. Install plugin, paste keys, you’re live</li>
</ul>
<h4>Account required</h4>
<p>This plugin connects WordPress to the Proxylang translation network. <strong>You’ll need a free Proxylang account at <a href="https://proxylang.dev" rel="nofollow ugc">proxylang.dev</a> to use the plugin.</strong> Sign-up takes 30 seconds. The free tier translates 2,000 words/month at no cost. Enough for most small business sites. Higher tiers scale with traffic. See <a href="https://proxylang.dev/pricing" rel="nofollow ugc">proxylang.dev/pricing</a>.</p>
<h4>Who is this for?</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>WordPress sites going international</strong>: blogs, agencies, SaaS marketing sites, portfolios.</li>
<li><strong>WooCommerce stores selling cross-border</strong>: products, variations, cart, checkout, and Product schema all translate automatically.</li>
<li><strong>Sites on managed hosts</strong> that don’t allow DNS changes: Kinsta, WP Engine, WordPress.com Business+, Pressable, and similar.</li>
<li><strong>Agencies managing multilingual clients</strong>: install once, manage translations from one dashboard.</li>
</ul>
<h4>How it works under the hood</h4>
<p>When a visitor lands on <code>/es-MX/about</code>, the plugin inspects the request:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Search-engine bot</strong> (Googlebot, ChatGPT, Claude, etc.): plugin fetches a fully translated HTML page from Proxylang’s edge network and serves it directly. Indexable, hreflang-annotated, no JavaScript required.</li>
<li><strong>Human visitor</strong>: plugin redirects to your source URL (<code>/about</code>) and sets a language cookie. Your page then loads with a tiny script that translates visible content client-side. No full re-render, no flicker, and your address bar stays clean.</li>
</ul>
<p>Translations are cached at 300+ edge locations and inside your WordPress install, so repeat visitors see instant translated pages.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>AI translation in 68 languages with brand-context awareness</li>
<li>Translates both search engines and visitors. Bots see pre-rendered translated HTML, real visitors see live in-browser translation</li>
<li>Per-language <code>sitemap.xml</code>, <code>robots.txt</code>, hreflang, og:locale, content-language headers</li>
<li><strong>Translation glossary</strong>: override AI translations for brand terms or any specific phrase</li>
<li><strong>Full analytics dashboard</strong>: visitors, languages, countries, top pages, growth over time. All anonymous and aggregated</li>
<li>WooCommerce Product JSON-LD localization for Google Shopping</li>
<li>Compatible with W3 Total Cache, WP Super Cache, LiteSpeed Cache, and other page caches</li>
<li>Translation cache invalidation via signed HMAC webhooks. No manual purge</li>
<li>GDPR-friendly. No visitor PII, cookies, or form submissions sent to Proxylang</li>
<li>Works with any theme, page builder, or block editor (Elementor, Divi, Gutenberg, Bricks, etc.)</li>
<li>WordPress 6.5+ and PHP 7.4+ supported</li>
</ul>
<h3>External services</h3>
<p>This plugin connects to the Proxylang translation service. <strong>The plugin will not function without contacting these services.</strong> Translation cannot happen entirely on your server. Proxylang runs the AI translation pipeline, edge cache, and dashboard.</p>
<p>What data is sent and when:</p>
<ol>
<li>
<p><strong>proxylang.dev</strong>: configuration, plugin registration, daily heartbeat.</p>
<ul>
<li><code>POST https://proxylang.dev/api/proxylang/plugin/register</code>: sent on plugin activation. Transmits: your public key (Authorization header), plugin version, your site’s home URL, REST webhook URL, requested mode.</li>
<li><code>POST https://proxylang.dev/api/proxylang/plugin/heartbeat</code>: sent once per day. Transmits: your public key, plugin version, mode, home URL.</li>
<li><code>POST https://proxylang.dev/api/proxylang/plugin/config</code>: sent on settings save and twice daily. Transmits: your public key. Returns: enabled languages, source language, registered domain.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>proxy.proxylang.dev</strong> (server-to-server, from your WordPress server): translated HTML and sitemap delivery.</p>
<ul>
<li><code>GET https://proxy.proxylang.dev/v1/render?domain=…&path=…&lang=…</code>: sent when a search-engine bot requests a <code>/{lang}/*</code> URL. Transmits: your public key (X-Proxylang-Key header), the requesting visitor’s User-Agent (X-Proxylang-Visitor-UA header), requested path, language.</li>
<li><code>GET https://proxy.proxylang.dev/v1/sitemap?domain=…&lang=…</code>: sent when WordPress requests a per-language sitemap. Transmits: your public key, language code.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>proxy.proxylang.dev</strong> (loaded in each site visitor’s browser): live in-page translation for human visitors. The plugin adds the following to your front-end pages when enabled:</p>
<ul>
<li><code><script src="https://proxy.proxylang.dev/script.js"></code>: enqueued into every enabled front-end page. The visitor’s browser downloads and runs this script to translate the page client-side. Your public key is passed to it via a <code>data-key</code> attribute.</li>
<li><code>GET https://proxy.proxylang.dev/v1/script-bundle?key=…&lang=…&path=…</code>: fetched (and <code><link rel="preload"></code>-hinted) by that script to retrieve cached translations for the current page and language. Transmits: your public key, target language, page path. No visitor personal data is sent.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ol>
<p>Proxylang’s privacy policy: https://proxylang.dev/privacy<br />
Proxylang’s terms of service: https://proxylang.dev/terms</p>
<h3>Privacy</h3>
<p>This plugin does NOT send visitor personal data, cookies, form submissions, IP addresses, or session content to Proxylang. Only the request URL path and the visitor’s User-Agent string are transmitted (the User-Agent is required so that bot translations can be metered per crawler). Logged-in administrator previews skip Proxylang entirely and serve the origin page directly.</p>
<p>Translation caches live entirely on your WordPress install (in object cache or transients) and on Proxylang’s edge network. No per-visitor records are stored. Analytics are collected anonymously and aggregated (country, language, page path) for the dashboard.</p>
<p>For European customers: Proxylang is GDPR-compliant. See the privacy policy linked above for the full data-processing agreement.</p>


Proxylang: AI Translation & Multilingual SEO

Instant website translation and SEO to grow your global traffic. Lang prefixes, hreflang, sitemaps for Google. No DNS. Live in 60 seconds.

Cozmoslabs

Cristian Antohe

madalin.ungureanu

Razvan Mocanu

Cristophor Hurduban

<p><strong>Experience a better way to translate your WordPress site and go multilingual, directly from the front-end using a visual translation interface. The built-in AI translation lets you translate automatically, then refine anything visually.</strong></p>
<p>TranslatePress is a <a href="https://translatepress.com/?utm_source=wp.org&utm_medium=tp-description-page&utm_campaign=TPFree" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress translation plugin</a> that anyone can use.</p>
<p>The interface allows you to easily translate the entire page at once, including output from shortcodes, forms and page builders. It also works out of the box with WooCommerce.</p>
<p>Built the WordPress way, TranslatePress – Multilingual is a GPL and self hosted translation plugin, meaning you’ll own all your translations, forever. It’s the fastest way to create a bilingual or <a href="https://translatepress.com/how-to-create-a-multilingual-wordpress-site/?utm_source=wp.org&utm_medium=tp-description-page&utm_campaign=TPFree" rel="nofollow ugc">multilingual site</a>.</p>
<p><span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EMBdXuyrZUA?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span></p>
<h3>Multilingual & Translation Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Translate all your website content directly from the front-end, in a friendly user interface (translations are displayed in real-time).</li>
<li>Fully compatible with all themes and plugins</li>
<li>Live preview of your translated pages, as you edit them.</li>
<li>Automatic AI translation support through <a href="https://translatepress.com/ai-free/?utm_source=wp.org&utm_medium=tp-description-page&utm_campaign=TPFree" rel="nofollow ugc">TranslatePress AI Free</a>, with a 2,000 AI words limit. Use our free <a href="https://translatepress.com/website-word-count/?utm_source=wp.org&utm_medium=tp-description-page&utm_campaign=TPFree" rel="nofollow ugc">Website Word Count</a> to find how many words your website contains. </li>
<li>Integrates with Google Translate, allowing you to set up unlimited automatic translations using your own Google API key.</li>
<li>Fully customizable language switcher that you can display as a menu item, a floating dropdown, or place anywhere else using the Language Switcher block, or the <strong>[language-switcher]</strong> shortcode.</li>
<li><a href="https://translatepress.com/docs/image-translation/?utm_source=wp.org&utm_medium=tp-description-page&utm_campaign=TPFree" rel="nofollow ugc">Image translation</a> support, for <a href="https://translatepress.com/translate-images-in-wordpress/?utm_source=wp.org&utm_medium=tp-description-page&utm_campaign=TPFree" rel="nofollow ugc">translating images, sliders and other media</a>.</li>
<li>Support for both manual and automatic translation</li>
<li>Ability to <a href="https://translatepress.com/translate-dynamic-strings-wordpress/?utm_source=wp.org&utm_medium=tp-description-page&utm_campaign=TPFree" rel="nofollow ugc">translate dynamic strings</a> (gettext) added by WordPress, plugins and themes.</li>
<li>Translate larger html blocks by merging strings into translation blocks.</li>
<li>Editorial control allowing you to publish your language only when all your translations are done</li>
<li>Conditional display content shortcode based on language [trp_language language=”en_US”] English content only [/trp_language]</li>
<li>Possibility to <a href="https://translatepress.com/edit-plugin-strings/?utm_source=wp.org&utm_medium=tp-description-page&utm_campaign=TPFree" rel="nofollow ugc">edit gettext strings</a> from themes and plugins from English to English, without adding another language. Basically a string-replace functionality.</li>
<li>Translate only certain paths and <a href="https://translatepress.com/partially-translate-wordpress-exclude-posts-pages-products/?utm_source=wp.org&utm_medium=tp-description-page&utm_campaign=TPFree" rel="nofollow ugc">exclude content from being translated</a></li>
<li>Translation Block feature in which you can translate multiple html elements together</li>
<li>Native <strong>Gutenberg</strong> support, so you can easily <a href="https://translatepress.com/translate-gutenberg-blocks-in-wordpress/?utm_source=wp.org&utm_medium=tp-description-page&utm_campaign=TPFree" rel="nofollow ugc">translate Gutenberg blocks</a></li>
<li>Out of the box <a href="https://translatepress.com/translate-woocommerce-products-translatepress/?utm_source=wp.org&utm_medium=tp-description-page&utm_campaign=TPFree" rel="nofollow ugc">WooCommerce</a> compatibility</li>
<li>Use our <a href="https://translatepress.com/free-website-translation-tool-widget/?utm_source=wp.org&utm_medium=tp-description-page&utm_campaign=TPFree" rel="nofollow ugc">FREE Website Translation</a> tool/widget to browse any website into your own language.</li>
</ul>
<p>Note: this plugin uses the Google Translation API to translate the strings on your site. This feature can be enabled or disabled according to your preferences.</p>
<p>Users with administrator rights have access to the following settings:</p>
<ul>
<li>select default language of the website and one translation language, for bilingual sites</li>
<li>choose whether language switcher should display languages in their native names or English name</li>
<li>force custom links to open in current language</li>
<li>enable or disable url subdirectory for the default language</li>
<li>enable automatic translation via Google Translate</li>
</ul>
<h3>Powerful Translation Add-ons</h3>
<p>TranslatePress – Multilingual has a range of <a href="https://translatepress.com/?utm_source=wp.org&utm_medium=tp-description-page&utm_campaign=TPFree" rel="nofollow ugc">premium Add-ons</a> that allow you to extend the power of this WordPress translation plugin:</p>
<p><strong>Pro Add-ons</strong> (available in the <a href="https://translatepress.com/pricing/?utm_source=wp.org&utm_medium=tp-description-page&utm_campaign=TPFree" rel="nofollow ugc">premium versions</a> only)</p>
<ul>
<li>Full <a href="https://translatepress.com/ai/?utm_source=wp.org&utm_medium=tp-description-page&utm_campaign=TPFree" rel="nofollow ugc">TranslatePress AI</a> access – automatically translate your entire website without extra platforms to sign up for, API keys, and additional translation costs. Each premium version includes a set number of AI translated words you can use to instantly translate your site, saving you both time and money.</li>
<li><a href="https://translatepress.com/docs/addons/multiple-languages/?utm_source=wp.org&utm_medium=tp-description-page&utm_campaign=TPFree" rel="nofollow ugc">Extra Languages</a> – allows you to add an unlimited number of translation languages, with the possibility to publish languages later after you complete the translation</li>
<li><a href="https://translatepress.com/docs/addons/seo-pack/?utm_source=wp.org&utm_medium=tp-description-page&utm_campaign=TPFree" rel="nofollow ugc">SEO Pack</a> – lets you translate meta information (like page title, description, url slug, image alt tag, Twitter and Facebook Social Graph tags & more) for boosting your multilingual SEO and increase traffic. Works with all popular SEO plugins.</li>
<li><a href="https://translatepress.com/docs/developers/different-domain-per-language/?utm_source=wp.org&utm_medium=tp-description-page&utm_campaign=TPFree" rel="nofollow ugc">Different Domain per Language</a> – assign a different domain to each language you add (e.g. domain.de, domain.es) and improve international SEO by creating a fully local experience for your visitors</li>
<li><a href="https://translatepress.com/docs/addons/translator-accounts/?utm_source=wp.org&utm_medium=tp-description-page&utm_campaign=TPFree" rel="nofollow ugc">Translator Accounts</a> – create or allow existing users to translate the site without admin rights</li>
<li><a href="https://translatepress.com/docs/addons/browse-as-role/?utm_source=wp.org&utm_medium=tp-description-page&utm_campaign=TPFree" rel="nofollow ugc">Browse as User Role</a> – view and translate content that is visible only to a particular user role</li>
<li><a href="https://translatepress.com/docs/addons/navigate-based-language/?utm_source=wp.org&utm_medium=tp-description-page&utm_campaign=TPFree" rel="nofollow ugc">Navigation Based on Language</a> – configure and display different menu items for different languages</li>
<li><a href="https://translatepress.com/docs/addons/automatic-user-language-detection/?utm_source=wp.org&utm_medium=tp-description-page&utm_campaign=TPFree" rel="nofollow ugc">Automatic User Language Detection</a> – redirect first time visitors to their preferred language based on their browser settings or IP address</li>
<li><a href="https://translatepress.com/docs/addons/deepl-automatic-translation/?utm_source=wp.org&utm_medium=tp-description-page&utm_campaign=TPFree" rel="nofollow ugc">DeepL Automatic Translation</a> – The DeepL Automatic Translation add-on lets you automatically translate your website through the DeepL API</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Keyboard Shortcuts</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><strong>CTRL ( ⌘ ) + S</strong> – Save translation for the currently editing strings</li>
<li><strong>CTRL ( ⌘ ) + ALT + Z</strong> – Discard all changes for the currently editing strings</li>
<li><strong>CTRL ( ⌘ ) + ALT + <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span></strong> (Right Arrow) – Navigate to next string</li>
<li><strong>CTRL ( ⌘ ) + ALT + <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">←</span></strong> (Left Arrow) – Navigate to previous string</li>
</ul>
<h4>Website</h4>
<p><a href="https://translatepress.com/?utm_source=wp.org&utm_medium=tp-description-page&utm_campaign=TPFree" rel="nofollow ugc">translatepress.com</a></p>
<h4>Documentation</h4>
<p><a href="https://translatepress.com/docs/translatepress/?utm_source=wp.org&utm_medium=tp-description-page&utm_campaign=TPFree" rel="nofollow ugc">Visit TranslatePress WordPress Translation plugin documentation page</a></p>
<h4>Add-ons</h4>
<p><a href="https://translatepress.com/docs/translatepress/?utm_source=wp.org&utm_medium=tp-description-page&utm_campaign=TPFree" rel="nofollow ugc">Add-ons</a></p>
<h4>Demo Site</h4>
<p>You can test out TranslatePress – Multilingual plugin by <a href="https://demo.translatepress.com/?utm_source=wp.org&utm_medium=tp-description-page&utm_campaign=TPFree" rel="nofollow ugc">visiting our demo site</a></p>
<h3>External Services</h3>
<p>This plugin connects to the TranslatePress AI translation service to perform automatic translations. Data sent includes page text, license key, site URL, and language settings. This may be triggered by front-end page visits, not just admin actions.<br />
If you opt in, the plugin sends limited diagnostic and configuration data to Cozmoslabs.com to help improve the  product.</p>
<p>Terms & Conditions: https://translatepress.com/terms-conditions/<br />
Privacy Policy: https://translatepress.com/privacy-policy/</p>
<p>If you choose to use Google Translate or DeepL as your translation engine and provide your own API key, content from your site will be sent to those services for translation. This may also be triggered by front-end page visits.</p>
<p>Google Translate Terms of Service: https://cloud.google.com/terms/<br />
Google Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy</p>
<p>DeepL Terms of Service: https://www.deepl.com/en/pro-license<br />
DeepL Privacy Policy: https://www.deepl.com/en/privacy</p>
<p>The plugin requests translation files of other plugins hosted on WordPress.org.<br />
Select2: <a href="https://github.com/select2/select2" rel="nofollow ugc">https://github.com/select2/select2</a></p>


TranslatePress – Translate Multilingual sites with AI Translation

Easy to use and well supported, thanks ;-)

Great plugin


Very Helpful!



Very Helpful for my education website! The team are super nice and kind to help me improve my site user experience.


Very Helpful!


When you want to run a website with more than just one language without making it too complicated give it a try!


TranslatePress does the job


A great plugin to easily offer the website in multiple languages. TranslatePress also allows authors to maintain translations and translate new texts. The optimization for SEO is also very good, so that our website can now be found in different languages. We love this plugin and don't want to use any other. The best thing is that the loading times do not slow down and the website is still available in multiple languages.


We love many languages - easy possible with TranslatePress


I discovered TranslatePress while looking for a way to translate our site into multiple languages. I noticed from Google Search Console that some of our content was getting impressions for keywords in other languages. That made me realize it was time to go multilingual.



After researching different translation plugins, TranslatePress stood out for being simple, affordable, and packed with useful features. I especially loved the visual front-end translation interface and the AI translation option. Once I enabled AI translation, it started translating everything automatically, no manual work needed.



What really makes TranslatePress the best:




Easy to set up and use



SEO-friendly (translates meta titles, descriptions, and sitemaps)



Great performance and stability



Ai translation



Excellent support team




Since using TranslatePress, we’ve seen a noticeable increase in international traffic. It's helped us reach new audiences without extra effort.



Highly recommended for anyone serious about growing a multilingual WordPress site.


The Best WordPress Translation Plugin


I’ve been using TranslatePress for over five years now, and it has been one of the most solid and reliable plugins in my entire WordPress setup.



What truly stands out is its flexibility. I honestly can’t think of a single element on my website that I wasn’t able to translate. From pages to dynamic content, everything is accessible and manageable directly from the front end, which makes the whole process intuitive and efficient.



As someone who works professionally with language and has become more involved in building and refining my site, I’ve come to appreciate just how powerful this plugin really is. It strikes a rare balance between simplicity and depth: easy to use on the surface, yet incredibly capable when you need full control.



TranslatePress is practical, well-designed, and simply works. It has been a key part of my website for years, and I highly recommend it to anyone serious about multilingual WordPress.


Powerful, flexible, and the best translation plugin I’ve used


As developer, simplicity is absolutely key for me. And that is what I found with this plugin.



I missed some options on the free version, such as title, tagline, and other metatags translation support. But for quick purposes, translating content pages was absolutely easy.


A very simple translation plugin


Amzing plugin to translate but maybe need include more IA providers, but for a simple website work great


Great plugin!

Translate your site visually, directly from the front-end. Go multilingual in minutes using automatic AI translation. Works with any theme or plugin.

Proxylang: AI Translation & Multilingual SEO vs TranslatePress – Translate Multilingual sites with AI Translation