WordPress translation plugin
WPGlotty sends your pages to Claude, DeepL or OpenAI and stores the translations. It works on the finished HTML page rather than on individual WordPress filters, which is why page-builder output, menus, footers, image alt text and SEO fields get translated too. Any sentence that comes out wrong, you correct by clicking it on your own site.
Services
We work with clients who know exactly what they want to say, and in which language.
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How it differs
most translation plugins
A plugin can only translate the text it is handed. Post content, yes. But your page builder’s header, a popup, or a label another plugin prints in a template only get translated if someone wrote an integration for that specific case. The rest stays in the original language, and you usually find out from a customer.
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WPGlotty waits until WordPress, your theme, your page builder and every other plugin have finished building the page. Then it reads that HTML, finds the text and the text-carrying attributes, and replaces them. It does not matter which plugin produced the words.
Translations are stored in the plugin’s own database tables. Your posts are not duplicated and your page-builder data is not rewritten, so the builder keeps working exactly as it does on a site with one language.
Setting it up
Pick from a list of 108. For each one you choose the URL structure — a subdirectory like /nl/, or a separate domain — and set the tone of voice and the level of formality the AI should use.
WPGlotty finds your URLs, works through them in batches and stores the translations. A page it has not processed yet is translated the first time someone opens it, so a visitor never sees the original language by accident.
Open your own site in editing mode, click a sentence and type what it should say instead. The correction is stored for that piece of text, so it also applies on every other page where the same text appears.
Coverage
Everything below is text that ends up in the HTML your server sends, which is why WPGlotty can translate it. This is what works today, not a roadmap.
Post and page content
Including text that a shortcode or a block only produces while the page is being built.
Page-builder output
Breakdance headers, footers, templates, global blocks and popups.
Navigation menus
The menu labels. You can also show a completely different menu per language.
Theme and plugin strings
Text built into your theme or another plugin, such as “Add to cart” or “Read more”.
Image alt text
Plus title, placeholder and aria-label: the text screen readers and Google read.
SEO metadata
Titles, descriptions and Open Graph via Yoast, Rank Math or SEOPress.
Structured data
The text inside your JSON-LD. URLs, prices and status values are left untouched.
URL slugs
The words in the address bar, translated per language.
WooCommerce
Product names and descriptions, categories, the cart and the checkout.
Order emails
Sent in the language the customer ordered in, not the language of your site.
ACF fields
Text, textarea and wysiwyg fields, including ones nested in repeaters and groups.
Search
A visitor types a search term in their own language and still finds your pages.
Correcting translations
Machine translation is usually fine and occasionally picks the wrong word in a headline. To correct it you do not have to find that text in a list of thousands of strings: open your own site, click the sentence, and type what it should say.
| Source | Dutch | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Request a quote | Vraag een offerte aan | edited 7p |
| Free shipping over €50 | Gratis verzending vanaf €50 | machine 24p |
| Read the case study | Lees de case study | glossary 3p |
| Book a call | Plan een gesprek | machine 11p |
Settings
who translates
You enter your own API key, so you pay that company directly and we add nothing on top. Your content is sent to them and not to us. You can switch at any time; translations you already have stay as they are.
anthropicdeeplopenai
what it costs
WPGlotty keeps track of what every translation costs. Set a maximum per month and it warns you at the percentage you choose, then stops translating when the limit is reached instead of quietly running up a bill.
$4.21 / $25.00warn at 80%
how it writes
A glossary fixes product names, legal terms and jargon in advance. Tone of voice and formality are set per language: whether Dutch uses “je” or “u”, for instance. Exclusions leave chosen elements, words or pages untranslated.
31 glossary terms12 exclusions
URLs and SEO
nl example.com/nl/diensten/
de example.de/leistungen/
Works with
or from the command line
$ wp bdt translate --lang=nl --batch=50
→ discovering URLs 318 found
→ segmenting DOM 4,812 strings
→ provider anthropic/claude ok
✓ nl complete — hreflang + sitemap writtenRequirements
Questions
A page that has already been translated is served from the database, so there is no call to the AI while a visitor waits. A page nobody has opened yet is translated once, on that first visit, and then stored. Page caching plugins keep working: WPGlotty clears the pages it changes in WP Rocket, W3 Total Cache, LiteSpeed and nginx-helper, and tells you in the admin if it finds a cache it cannot clear itself.
Your site goes back to one language, exactly as it was. Nothing was duplicated and no page-builder data was changed, so there is nothing to undo. If you delete the plugin, its tables are removed too — but only if you switch that option on first. Leave it off and your translations are still there after a reinstall.
You do, directly to Anthropic, DeepL or OpenAI, using your own API key. We add nothing on top and your content is never sent through our servers. Set a monthly maximum in the settings and the bill stays predictable.
Yes. That is what the editor is for. Text you edit yourself is marked as edited by a person, and translating the site again will not overwrite it.
No. WPGlotty reads the finished page, so a classic theme, a block theme and a page builder are all the same to it. There is a specific Breakdance integration because builder output is exactly where other translation plugins tend to give up.
Get it
Make an account, get a licence key, paste it into the plugin. You add your own API key for Claude, DeepL or OpenAI and pay them directly for the translation — we charge nothing per word and your content does not pass through our servers.
Free
While WPGlotty is in beta · one site per licence
Questions first? Write to us.