AI Translate leverages advanced AI to provide seamless, automatic translation of your WordPress website content—including posts, pages, titles, taglines, menus, and widget titles. Translations are fast, SEO-friendly, and highly customizable. Intelligent caching ensures top performance. The plugin generates a smart summary of your website and provides it to itself while translating, so translations are always tailored to your brand, terminology, and topic.

Short Description

AI-powered WordPress plugin for automatic website translation in 23 languages. Boosts traffic and improves your SEO.

Features

Automatic translation of pages, posts, and custom post types.
AI generates summary of your site for itself to understand the goal of the website.
Support for all major languages of the world.
Intelligent caching for better performance.
Automatic re-translation when original content changes.
Remembers each visitor’s language preference.
Simple language switcher interface.
Customizable translation models (OpenAI, Deepseek, or compatible API).
Translates URLs for SEO (e.g., /over-ons to /en/about-us).

Configuration

Find all plugin settings under ‘AI Translate’ in your WordPress admin menu.

API Settings

API URL: Endpoint for your AI translation API (e.g., https://api.openai.com/v1/)
API Key: Your API authentication key
Translation Model: Choose your preferred AI model

Language Settings

Default Language: Main language of your website
Enabled Languages: Languages shown in the language switcher
Detectable Languages: Auto-translate if visitor’s browser matches, but not in switcher

Cache Settings

Cache Duration (days): How long translated content stays cached
Cache Management: Clear all cache, only transient cache, or cache per language
Automatic cache invalidation: Cache refreshes only when original content changes

Advanced Settings

Homepage Meta Description: Set and auto-translate a custom meta description for your homepage
Generate context of site to be translated automatically and use it for translation “tone of voice and content”

Usage

Once configured, AI Translate adds a language switcher button to your website (default: bottom left). Visitors can select their preferred language; content is translated instantly or loaded from cache.
Each visitor’s language choice is remembered for future visits.

Cache

Translations are cached in /wp-content/uploads/ai-translate/cache/
Expired cache is cleaned up automatically
Manual cache clearing via plugin settings

Recommended Model Selection

OpenAI: gpt-4.1-mini
Deepseek: deepseek-chat (slower, but cost-effective)

Development

Path-based language URLs for SEO
Support for more content types and translation improvements is ongoing
Caching and API optimization are continuously improved

External Services

AI Translate requires an API key for one of the supported providers:

Supported AI Translation Services

OpenAI API
– What it is: OpenAI’s GPT models for text translation
– What data is sent: Website content (posts, pages, titles, menu items, widget titles) that needs to be translated, along with source and target language information
– When data is sent: When a visitor accesses your website in a language different from the default language, and the content is not already cached
– Service provider: OpenAI
– Terms of service: https://openai.com/terms/
– Privacy policy: https://openai.com/privacy/

Data Handling:
– Only website content for translation is sent—no visitor IP or personal data
– All translations cached locally; nothing is shared externally

Requirements

WordPress 5.0 or higher
PHP 7.4 or higher
API key for OpenAI, Deepseek, or compatible service

Provided by

NetCare

AI Translate