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<p>VelaLang lets WordPress sites become multilingual without creating duplicate pages.</p>
<p>This free version is focused on one primary language and one secondary language. It keeps the primary language in the normal WordPress title and editor, then stores the secondary language as extra fields on the same page or post. Visitors see the primary language at the normal URL and the secondary language at a clean prefixed URL.</p>
<p>Example:</p>
<ul>
<li>/pricing/ shows the primary language.</li>
<li>/zh/pricing/ shows the secondary language from the same WordPress page.</li>
</ul>
<p>Core ideas:</p>
<ul>
<li>No duplicate pages.</li>
<li>One menu, two labels.</li>
<li>One Elementor Free widget, two text values.</li>
<li>No page linking.</li>
<li>No string scanning.</li>
<li>No complex translation database.</li>
<li>A small support surface by design.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Choose common primary and secondary languages from presets.</li>
<li>Configure custom primary and secondary language names, codes, and locales.</li>
<li>Configure a secondary URL prefix such as /zh/, /ja/, /fr/, or /es/.</li>
<li>Warn about permalink and URL prefix conflicts before they become routing problems.</li>
<li>Add secondary title, excerpt, and content fields to posts and pages.</li>
<li>Highlight secondary-language fields clearly in Classic Editor, Block Editor, Elementor Free widgets, menus, widgets, and settings.</li>
<li>Show translation completion status in the post and page lists.</li>
<li>Add quick links to view the secondary-language version from post and page lists and editors.</li>
<li>Add admin bar shortcuts for switching between primary and secondary versions while reviewing content.</li>
<li>Translate the site title and tagline for the secondary language.</li>
<li>Show secondary content at the prefixed URL.</li>
<li>Add secondary labels to WordPress menu items.</li>
<li>Automatically rewrite internal menu links for the secondary language.</li>
<li>Automatically rewrite internal content links for the secondary language.</li>
<li>Set the secondary language html lang/dir attributes on secondary URLs.</li>
<li>Add secondary fields to common Elementor Free widgets, including text, links, images, maps, video URLs, icon lists, tabs, accordions, toggles, ratings, counters, progress bars, testimonials, social icons, and audio basics.</li>
<li>Add secondary title fields to classic WordPress widgets, plus secondary content fields for Text and Custom HTML widgets.</li>
<li>Output hreflang and x-default tags.</li>
<li>Add a language switcher with [velalang_switcher].</li>
<li>Choose a default switcher style: language names, language codes, dropdown, or globe button.</li>
<li>Place the switcher manually, as the last menu item, or as a fixed floating switcher.</li>
<li>Choose text, flags, or flags with text for the switcher.</li>
<li>Choose the floating switcher position.</li>
<li>Adjust floating switcher offsets and choose a preset floating style.</li>
<li>Includes a translation template and Simplified Chinese translation files.</li>
<li>Keeps settings and translated content when deleting the plugin unless cleanup is enabled.</li>
<li>Optionally redirect first-time homepage visitors based on browser language.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Supported Editors</h3>
<p>VelaLang intentionally keeps a small support surface.</p>
<p>Supported in this version:</p>
<ul>
<li>Classic Editor.</li>
<li>WordPress Block Editor, using the VelaLang secondary-language panel in the editor’s meta boxes area.</li>
<li>Elementor Free common widgets, including Heading, Text Editor, Text Path, Video, Button, Image, Image Carousel, Google Maps, Icon, Icon List, Icon Box, Image Box, Alert, Testimonial, Counter, Progress Bar, Star Rating, Social Icons, SoundCloud, Audio, Tabs, Accordion, and Toggle.</li>
<li>Classic WordPress widgets: secondary widget titles, plus secondary widget content for Text and Custom HTML widgets.</li>
</ul>
<p>Not supported in this version:</p>
<ul>
<li>Divi.</li>
<li>Bricks.</li>
<li>Beaver Builder.</li>
<li>WPBakery.</li>
<li>Oxygen.</li>
<li>More than two languages.</li>
<li>Elementor Pro widgets, Theme Builder, forms, loops, and advanced dynamic content.</li>
<li>Deep media-library attachment translation.</li>
<li>WooCommerce translation.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Language Switcher</h3>
<p>Use the VelaLang shortcode:</p>
<ul>
<li>[velalang_switcher]</li>
</ul>
<p>The default style can be selected in VelaLang in the WordPress admin menu.</p>
<p>Shortcode examples:</p>
<ul>
<li>[velalang_switcher style=”names”]</li>
<li>[velalang_switcher style=”codes”]</li>
<li>[velalang_switcher style=”dropdown”]</li>
<li>[velalang_switcher style=”globe”]</li>
<li>[velalang_switcher icon=”yes”]</li>
</ul>


VelaLang

Make your WordPress site multilingual without duplicating pages.

langrelay

<p>LangRelay is a WordPress translation plugin that turns your site multilingual in minutes. AI translates every page, post, and product into 100+ languages. Translated URLs, hreflang tags, and a language switcher are handled automatically.</p>
<p>Most translation plugins stop at the words on the page. LangRelay also translates your URLs, your meta titles and descriptions, and the llms.txt file AI search engines read, so your site gets found in every market you sell in.</p>
<h4>What you get</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>AI translations that read like a human wrote them.</strong> Powered by frontier language models, not Google Translate.</li>
<li><strong>Translated URLs.</strong> <code>yoursite.com/about-us</code> becomes <code>yoursite.com/nl/over-ons</code>.</li>
<li><strong>Automatic hreflang.</strong> Hreflang tags, canonical tags, and language-specific sitemaps are injected for you. No manual setup.</li>
<li><strong>Translated SEO metadata.</strong> Meta titles, descriptions, and OG tags translate alongside the page. Works with Yoast and Rank Math.</li>
<li><strong>Language switcher.</strong> Dropdown, flags, or list. Available as a Gutenberg block, Elementor widget, shortcode, or auto-injected.</li>
<li><strong>Translated llms.txt.</strong> ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude can cite your site in any language you publish in.</li>
<li><strong>WooCommerce multilingual.</strong> Product pages, shop pages, cart, and checkout translate out of the box.</li>
<li><strong>Plays nice with caching.</strong> Compatible with WP Rocket, Cache Enabler, WP Optimize, and most other plugins.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Why a multilingual WordPress site matters</h4>
<ul>
<li>English is only 16% of the internet. The other 84% is your addressable market.</li>
<li>Google ranks translated pages separately. A multilingual site can multiply your organic traffic without adding new content.</li>
<li>AI search engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini) increasingly answer questions in the user’s native language. Without translated pages, you don’t show up.</li>
</ul>
<h4>How it works</h4>
<ol>
<li>Install the plugin and connect your free LangRelay account.</li>
<li>Pick the languages you want.</li>
<li>LangRelay captures each page on first visit, translates it through the API, and serves the translated version. Subsequent visits are served from cache instantly.</li>
</ol>
<p>That’s it. No content duplication, no manual translation interface, no separate posts to manage.</p>
<h4>Multilingual SEO done right</h4>
<p>LangRelay handles the SEO work that usually takes hours per language:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>hreflang</code> and <code>x-default</code> tags on every page</li>
<li>Canonical tags pointing to the correct language version</li>
<li>Translated slugs in the URL structure</li>
<li>Language-specific XML sitemaps</li>
<li>Translated meta titles, descriptions, and Open Graph tags</li>
<li>Translated llms.txt for AI search engines</li>
</ul>
<p>Search engines understand which language to serve to which visitor. AI models cite your site across markets.</p>
<h4>What makes LangRelay different</h4>
<p>You only pay for the words that actually get translated. If the same sentence appears on 500 pages, you pay for it once. Most translation plugins count every word on every page, which adds up fast on larger sites.</p>
<h4>Pricing</h4>
<ul>
<li>Free: 1 project, 1 language, 10K credits/mo</li>
<li>Starter (EUR 19/mo): 3 projects, 3 languages, 150K credits/mo</li>
<li>Growth (EUR 69/mo): 10 projects, 10 languages, 1.5M credits/mo</li>
<li>Business (EUR 199/mo): Unlimited projects and languages, 15M credits/mo</li>
</ul>
<p>Annual billing saves ~17%. Full pricing at <a href="https://langrelay.com/pricing" rel="nofollow ugc">langrelay.com/pricing</a>.</p>
<h4>How credits work</h4>
<p>One credit is one translated word. A 500-word page into one language costs 500 credits. Into three languages, 1,500.</p>
<p>Credits only count the first time a piece of text is translated. If you update a paragraph on your homepage, only that paragraph uses credits again. The rest of the page stays as-is. Duplicate content (like your footer showing up on every page) is recognized and translated once.</p>
<p>Credits reset every month and pool across all your projects.</p>
<h4>Meet Relay</h4>
<p>Relay is your AI assistant inside the LangRelay dashboard. Ask it about translation coverage, quality scores, or which pages still need attention. It pulls live data from your project so you don’t have to dig through the user interface.</p>
<h4>External services</h4>
<p><strong>LangRelay API</strong></p>
<p>This plugin sends page HTML to the LangRelay API for translation. Data is sent over HTTPS. Your WordPress database is never modified.</p>
<p>What is sent: page HTML, your authentication token, target language code.<br />
When: on untranslated or uncached page requests, during setup verification, and when syncing project settings.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://langrelay.com" rel="nofollow ugc">langrelay.com</a></li>
<li><a href="https://langrelay.com/terms" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Service</a></li>
<li><a href="https://langrelay.com/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a></li>
</ul>
<p>By using this plugin you agree to LangRelay’s Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.</p>


LangRelay

WordPress translation plugin with AI translations, translated URLs, automatic hreflang, and a built-in language switcher.

VelaLang vs LangRelay