{"id":6405,"date":"2017-05-03T12:09:36","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T09:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themeisle.com\/blog\/?p=6405"},"modified":"2022-12-01T08:41:43","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T06:41:43","slug":"how-to-automatically-translate-wordpress-with-weglot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themeisle.com\/blog\/how-to-automatically-translate-wordpress-with-weglot\/","title":{"rendered":"Beginner’s Guide: How to Automatically Translate WordPress (Using Weglot)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Making your site multilingual is a great way to gain access to a new audience. But unless you speak two languages yourself, how are you supposed to actually…translate your content? One way is to pay a professional…the other is read this guide and learn how to automatically translate WordPress.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In this post, I’ll briefly touch on when it is or is not <\/strong>a good idea to use automatic translation. Then, I’ll jump right into how to automatically translate WordPress using a freemium plugin called Weglot.<\/p>\n\n\t\t

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Is automatic translation right for your site?<\/h2>\n

Automatic translation, also known as machine translation, is when a robot translates your site for you. Think of how Google translate functions. It’s basically like that, except you actually get a multilingual version of your site that you can rank in Google (whereas Google translate doesn’t actually create a new<\/em> version of your site that search engines can index).<\/p>\n

Automatic translation is great…if you’re willing to accept some errors. If you just want to make blog posts accessible to others, it’s a good idea<\/strong>. If you need to translate really important information, it’s not!<\/strong><\/p>\n

The cool thing about the plugin is that it’s not just<\/em> about how to automatically translate WordPress. You can also go back and manually correct certain translations or easily outsource important pages to a professional translator.<\/p>\n

How to automatically translate WordPress with Weglot<\/h2>\n

There are a few different plugins that can help with how to automatically translate WordPress, but I like one called Weglot because:<\/p>\n