How to use TranslatePress and complete guide [2024 latest version]

According to W3Tech, approximately 63.4% of the top 10 million websites on the World Wide Web are written in English. This is followed by Russian (7.1%), Turkish (3.9%) and Spanish (3.7%).

In other words, 36.6% of Internet users search in languages other than English-speaking countries. If you haven't made your site multilingual yet, you're missing out on a lot of your customer base.

This is why you should make your site multilingual. By making your site multilingual, you attract visitors from all over the world who are interested in your products.

With TranslatePress, which we will discuss in this article, you can easily create a multilingual website.

So, as a real user of TranslatePress, I'll explain how to use it and set it up.

We will also honestly explain the differences from WPML and Polylang, which are famous WordPress multilingual plugins.

What is TranslatePress?

TranslatePress is a powerful plugin for making your WordPress site multilingual.

With this plugin, you can translate your website into various languages to create a multilingual website.

Benefits of creating a multilingual website with TranslatePress

The benefit of making your site multilingual is that you can get a lot of traffic from other countries and regions. Your site will attract customers from all over the world.

I'll give you an example. The default language of our site is Japanese. On top of that, we use TranslatePress to support English and German.

Please see the top right corner of the site.

You can see the national flag lined up in the menu items. When you switch this flag to English, the content of the page will automatically switch from Japanese to English

You can easily multilingualize your site in this way. Even a small personal site like this site can gain access from all over the world.

See actually my Google Analytics region summary.

35% of my site's visitors come from the United States. There are fewer sessions in Japan.

Even if your site is getting fewer visits now, you may be able to get PV from all over the world by using TranslatePress to make your site multilingual

We also used TranslatePress to translate the site. Thanks to this, we have gained a lot of visitors from English-speaking countries

On top of that, some of the products I am actually introducing are selling through this site.

Since I started using TranslatePress, I have been able to sell products that I had never closed before.

How to use TranslatePress

Next, I will explain how to use TranslatePress. We will illustrate everything from installation to configuration.

Install TranslatePress

The "How to install TranslatePress" explained in this article is the procedure of the paid version.

If you have subscribed to TranslatePress but don't know how to install it, please refer to it.

If you are using the free version, then the process is the same as installing a regular WordPress plugin. If you search for plugins, you will find the free version of TranslatePress. You can use it by installing and activating it as is.

First, if you have a paid TranslatePress plan, download the plugin and license from TranslatePress's My Page.

The license is used after installing the plugin, so please keep it safe

Next, log in to your WordPress admin and go from 'Plugins' to 'Add New.' Then upload the plugin.

Install and activate TranslatePress.

Next, we will explain how to set it up. That said, it's pretty easy to set up. Let's set it up quickly.

Settings from the WordPress admin

When you go to the TranslatePress settings screen, you will find an item called "Default Language".

In this section, choose the language of your WordPress website. For example, in the case of this site, it is in Japanese.

Next, choose the language you want to add to your website. Select a new language from the "All Languages" section and add it.

Don't forget to save your settings, right?

Translate content on your site

Now, let's actually use TranslatePress to translate content on your website.

Once you have opened a page on your website, click on 'Translate Page' in the WordPress admin bar.

You will then see a section on the left for translation.

Translating content is simple. Click on the sentence or word you want to translate.

Then you can do the translation in the left section.

Once you've done the translation, click "Save Translate".

When you save it, a language switcher will appear on the page, where you can switch the language to change the displayed language. It's very simple, isn't it?

By the way, I don't use the default language switcher because I don't like the way it looks, but instead I put the language switcher in the menu bar of the site. I will explain how to set this up later.

Automatically translate content

If you don't want to translate manually, we recommend automatic translation.

Paid version of TranslatePress(Business plan or higher)Then comes an add-on for automatic translation.

You can use this add-on to automatically translate your WordPress website.

By the way, 90% of the content on this site is also automatically translated. We have posted more than 60 articles on our site, so it is very tedious to manually translate all of them. It takes time and effort. That's why we have automatically translated all articles.

Using automatic translation is simple.

First, go to the TranslatePress settings screen as before.

Then click on "Automatic Translation". Enable automatic translation here.

This will display the settings for automatic translation

You can choose between two translation services: Google Translate and DeepL. We use DeepL to automatically translate our site.

You will need to enter your DeepL API key.

By the way, DeepL is free and can automatically translate up to 500,000 characters per month. The quality of the translations is also high, so we recommend DeepL Translate.

Enter your API key and save it. That's it!

To do automatic translation, you can switch the language within the page you want to translate and all the content on the page will be automatically translated.

I think it's a little difficult to understand, so please see the video below

Even long pages can be translated fully automatically by simply loading them. It's very convenient, isn't it?

By the way, if you are not satisfied with the results of the automatic translation, you can also correct it manually.

So far, we have explained the basic settings of TranslatePress and how to use it. It's very simple, isn't it? If you have any questions about the settings, you can ask them in the comments below this article. Answer.

TranslatePress Features

From here, we will introduce the features of TranslatePress.

Automatic translation function

*This feature requires a Business plan or a Developer plan.

The most notable feature is automatic translation. You can use Google Translate or DeepL Translate to automatically translate all of your site's content.

Google Translate is also not expensive, but I use DeepL, which has high translation accuracy, to translate my site.

To translate DeepL, you will need an API key.

Rest assured that you will get your API key for free. By the way, with a DeepL API key, you can translate 500,000 characters per month for free. For a small site, free is enough.

If you want to translate more than 500,000 characters per month, you can also pay for it. Even then, the monthly fee is very cheap.

I translated an additional 2 million characters in one month, but the fee was 5,630 yen. Cheap.

By the way, if you use DeepL to automatically translate, the settings screen will show how many characters you have translated.

You can limit the number of characters you can translate per day, so you won't be charged an unexpected amount.

Note: You can manually modify the auto-translated content later.

Manual translation

You can also manually translate the content on the page. Simply select the word you want to translate and click on it.

A section for translation appears on the left. Manual translation is possible within this section.

In this section, you can freely translate article titles, meta descriptions, URL slugs, and more.

Automatic redirects

The automatic redirect feature allows visitors to be automatically redirected to your site for the first time based on their browser language or IP address

For example, this site is written in Japanese, but if you access this site from the United States, you will be automatically redirected to a page written in English.

Alternatively, if you are from Germany, you will be automatically redirected to a German page when you visit this site.

I don't use this feature because it's compatible with Googlebot and it's easy to cause problems. It's convenient.

Wide range of languages

TranslatePress is currently available in 221 languages.

Adding languages to your site is easy. First, set the default language for your site from the settings screen.

In the case of this site, it is set to Japanese.

Then, select a language and add it. In this way, you can create a multilingual website with very simple operations.

Language Switcher

TranslatePress also has a switch feature to switch between languages.

I think it's faster to see the real thing, so please see the image below.

You can automatically display a "language switcher" to freely switch languages on the page.

I don't use it because I don't want to have a language switcher in the page.

Instead, we have a language switcher displayed in the menu bar. Please see below.

It's easy to get the language switch to appear in the menu bar.

First, go to the "WordPress admin screen"> "Outer ring"> "Menu". Then you will see an item called Language Switcher.

Now add the language switcher to the menu bar. Save and you're done.

This way, you'll see a language switcher in the menu bar within your site.

If you're not sure how to set it up, check out my explanation video.

You can set it up quickly in about 1 minute. Please give it a try.

Exclude words and sentences that you don't want to translate

One of my favorite features in TranslatePress is "Exclude strings". This feature removes words and strings that you don't want to translate from automatic translation when auto-translating.

For example, words for goods and services don't need to be translated. If you translate it, Google may judge it as a different word.

Even on my site, I exclude service names from automatic translation.

In fact, this feature is quite useful.

Translator Account

Let's say you want to outsource translations for your WordPress website.

But it's scary to give a third party WordPress admin privileges. I am worried that the content on the site will be deleted or misused without permission.

As a feature of TranslatePress, you can have a "translator account". This feature allows you to invite users to translate content on your site while keeping your site secure.

Even if you have an external translator translate for you, you can protect your important content and privacy information.

Quick and generous support

Since I started using TranslatePress, I have only had one major problem. Access to this site has dropped sharply.

That's where I contacted TranslatePress support

Then I received an email with an easy-to-understand solution. In just 30 minutes.

I sent the email at 9:37. At 10:09, I received a reply from support. It's amazing, isn't it?

As you can see, TranslatePress's support response is incredibly fast and specific.

All the problems were solved with just one empty reply when I inquired and my site access was restored

Nowadays, people from all over the world come to read my blog

SEO Features TranslatePress comes with add-ons to make your SEO efforts more effective

TranslatePress Pricing Plans

TranslatePress also has a free version, but the free version lacks essential features for multilingual sites.

If you're looking to launch a full-fledged multilingual website with WordPress, we recommend a paid plan.

I also wanted to create a full-fledged multilingual site where people from all over the world gathered, so I chose a paid plan.

See the image below for TranslatePress pricing plans.

• Personal Plan
• Business Plan
• Developer Plan

Three plans are offered. The cheapest plan is the Personal plan. It costs 79 euros per year.

This plan is cheaper, but it doesn't have all the features you need to create a multilingual website.

Therefore, I have a contract for the Business plan.

If you want to make your WordPress site multilingual, then we recommend the Business plan.

Why Choose a Business Plan?

Because the Business and Developer plans allow you to use DeepL's automatic translation function.

With this automatic translation feature, you can automatically translate your website's language in DeepL. DeepL is also the world's most natural translation service. It translates your site's content to the utmost fidelity.

Manual translation is difficult. That's why I use the Business plan, which allows me to use DeepL's automatic translation.

When you want to make your WordPress site multilingual, we recommend the Business plan for the essential SEO and automatic translation features.

If you only have a few pages on your site, the Personal plan will suffice. If you only have a few pages, it's easy to translate them manually.

Is TranslatePress expensive?

I have considered many options for making my WordPress site multilingual.

• Polylang
• Gtranslate
• Weglot
• WPML

We considered various multilingual tools. We have explained this in a YouTube video in the past, so if you are interested, please watch the video below.

After consideration, I chose TranslatePress because it was the cheapest overall.

The Business plan of TranslatePress that I have contracted is 139 euros/year. Converted to Japan yen, it is approximately 17,800 yen/year.

By the way, the fees for other site translation services are as follows.

• Weglot Pro 490 euros/year
• Polylang Pro 198 euros/year
• WPML Multilingual CMS $99/year
• Gtranslate Business $299.90/year

I have listed the plans that are as close as possible to TranslatePress's Business plan (139 euros/year).

WPML is the cheapest of these. However, automatic translation with DeepL will cost you extra money.

If you try to translate the entire site's content, you'll be charged a ridiculous amount of money...

TranslatePress allows you to automatically translate 500,000 characters per month for free with DeepL. This means that you can automatically translate content on your site at no additional cost.

As a result, I decided that TranslatePress's Business plan was the most affordable. It's the cheapest in total.

It costs 139 euros per year, but about 11 euros (about 1,200 yen) per month. For this amount, if you can make your entire site multilingual and get visitors from all over the world, it's very cheap.

You can automatically translate 500,000 characters every month for free, so you can easily create a multilingual website.

You can pay with PayPal!

By the way, TranslatePress accepts credit card and PayPal payments.

I also pay with PayPal.

You can purchase from Japan with confidence.

TranslatePress also has a 15-day money-back guarantee.

Even if you encounter a problem while using it, you can contact support and they will solve it immediately. Therefore, I don't think we will refund you, but if you can't do anything about it, you will get a full refund within 15 days.

Frequently Asked Questions

We have compiled some frequently asked questions about TranslatePress.

If you are unsure about other multilingual tools, please consider them

Is TranslatePress good for multilingual website creation?

There are several options for making WordPress multilingual. I was also worried about how to make my WordPress site multilingual. As a result, we ended up with TranslatePress.

There are three reasons.

• DeepL can automatically translate entire pages
• Multilingual SEO support
• Page speed does not increase

On top of that, the price is reasonable. Cheap. It supports multiple languages at no additional cost.

Like other multilingual tools, you don't have to pay extra for adding a single language to your site. Overall, TranslatePress is very affordable.

I recommend it with confidence.

Is TranslatePress free?

TranslatePress is free to install and use. But I use the paid version. Because the features of the free version are quite limited.

Here are the features you can use with the free TranslatePress

• Translate entire pages
• Dynamic string support
• Image translation
• Automatic translation (separate from translation using DeepL's API key)
• WooCommerce Ready
• Language switcher
• Free Support

If you have a small personal blog, the free version is sufficient.

However, if you want to make your site multilingual in earnest, the paid version is essential. Free TranslatePress doesn't come with multilingual SEO features. It also does not come with DeepL translation.

To make your site multilingual, we recommend the paid version.

Which plan do you recommend?

We recommend the Business plan. The reason is that you can use the DeepL automatic translation add-on from the Business plan. Deepl Auto Translate is a must for efficiently translating your website's content.

It also comes with a dedicated add-on to automatically redirect the browser. If you want to translate your WordPress site with high accuracy and make it fully multilingual, we recommend the Business plan.

I myself have a Business plan and translate this site.

The cheapest Personal plan comes with an SEO pack add-on, but it doesn't come with DeepL's automatic translation add-on. Therefore, you have to translate it manually.

If you want to create a multilingual website, we recommend the Business plan.

Does TranslatePress slow down your site?

When considering SEO measures, site display speed is a very important point.

If your site is slow, it will cause stress to your visitors and increase your bounce rate. Slow page speeds also lower Google ratings.

Therefore, you may feel anxious that if you add TranslatePress, the display speed of your site will slow down.

Don't worry. Putting TranslatePress on will not slow down your site's display speed.

I will show you a practical example. My site's display speed is as follows:

Putting TranslatePress in this way won't slow down your site's display speed.

In fact, even on our site with TranslatePress, articles are indexed without any problems. It won't negatively impact your SEO efforts

The translated English version of the article is also well indexed by Google.

Is there a monthly plan?

No, there is none. TranslatePress only has an annual plan.

By the way, you can pay for TranslatePress with PayPal.

What happens if I don't renew my annual plan?

You don't need to renew your annual plan to continue using TranslatePress.

However, if you do not renew, you will not receive the update after one year.

Rest assured, your saved translations won't disappear.

Tell us about support

TranslatePress support is via email.

Normally, you will get an email reply within 24 hours. Except on holidays.

The support is very polite and will give you specific solutions.

In my case, I received a reply within 30 minutes of sending an email to support. It's fast anyway.

That said, TranslatePress is basically easy to set up without support, so you won't have any problems.

Can I Use It on Any WordPress Site

Yes, TranslatePress is compatible with any WordPress website.

In addition to personal blogs and websites, it can also be used on corporate websites and e-commerce sites.

By the way, it also supports WooCommerce. Therefore, it is a multilingual plugin recommended for those who want to sell their products worldwide.

If you are considering TranslatePress and want to know more, write in the comments below this article. This site is also multilingual with TranslatePress, so as one of the actual users, I can give specific answers. Please feel free to ask questions.

[Multilingualization] For those who are considering TranslatePress

As you can see from the length of this article, I am very happy with TranslatePress.

If you are trying to manually make your WordPress site multilingual, it will not be enough time and effort. However, with TranslatePress's DeepL auto-translation add-on, you can automatically translate your website and make it multilingual in just a few seconds.

The quality of DeepL translations is also high, so it is possible to translate naturally. Therefore, it is possible to achieve a multilingual site that is also evaluated by Google.

In fact, the site you are reading is also successfully indexed by Google searches around the world. This is proof that the quality of the articles translated by DeepL is evaluated.

There are several ways to translate your WordPress site. Among them, I recommend TranslatePress the most.

Customer support is generous, and you can use it intuitively without reading the manual.

On top of that, TranslatePress has a 15-day money-back guarantee.

If you are not satisfied, there is no need to worry because there is a money-back guarantee.

We will also explain in detail how to use TranslatePress on this site. If there is a response...

Finally, a word from me. Making your website multilingual is an opportunity.

If you are reading this article, you are a very information-sensitive person, so I think you have already realized it. By being multilingual, your website will attract visitors from all over the world.

More than 35% of our visitors come from the United States.

TranslatePress is the best plugin to make your WordPress site multilingual. As an actual user, I recommend it with confidence.

If you have any further questions about TranslatePress, please leave a comment in this article.

Normally, I will reply directly within 12 hours.