With the use of internet, you are allowed to connect with your loved ones, to other people and do business. It makes the world smaller as it plays a vital role in the lives of every individual through its numerous uses. People live in a multilingual world. This means that there are different languages that people are using in terms of communicating either verbally or written. Regarding that, many people are asking how they can understand other languages aside from their own language and other website’s language. To answer that, you need to localize your site.
There are many efficient techniques in teaching you in doing it correctly. This starts from manual translation equal to utilizing the agencies’ services that are specializing in the translation of software or websites. It can be achieved with the use of WordPress localization plugins. With this, you can make one sub folder or directory for English speaking visitors, for French, Spanish, and more. Many companies are using this set up in order for their presence online will be secured to one domain and in communicating with their customers all over the world. Below are some of the WordPress localization plugins that can help you in adding languages into your site.
1. Code styling Localization
You can edit and manage all the text translation files (*.po/*.mo) outside WordPress Admin Center directly without needing an external editor. With its use, it can make automatically translation files, can detect ‘gettext’ components, supporting both WMPU plugins from 1.60 version and bbPress and BuddyPress, and translating encrypted premium plugins.
2. Easy Translator
It is known as a machine translator intended for blog posts, you can create plugin translations with its help. Email support built in, and translators will be able to send/resend directly the PO files from the plugin window.
3. Transposh WordPress Translation
It adds support in translation to WordPress into 67 languages. Translations can be manually corrected with ease. It can drop/drag interface, translates all comments, contents, RSS feeds and external plugins without changing .po/.mo files. It has hidden translated elements such as meta contents, titles and link tags.
4. Loco Translate
This plugin can translate directly WordPress themes and plugins in your browser. It can translate easily from your admin the PO files, and update or create directly the language files in your website.
5. Translate This Blog Translator
This plugin will aid you in translating your blog into various different languages. The languages pack’s button also added to the upper part of each post. This is an effective and simple way in translating your blog or site into 35 languages.
6. Translate This Button
It is an AJAX/JavaScript translation widget. It can provide translation to 52 languages along with a number of customizable choices. Using this, you can utilize custom pictures for the button, modify easily the UI text and Google Analytics tracing built in, can disable cookie that automatically translate the full site and can achieve languages from the dropdown.
7. Mealingua Posts and Pages Transalations
This plugin’s main advantage is its flexibility and simplicity. The purpose of the plugin is the translation of posts and pages on your site, and in translation plugin, all texts are manually managed and does not work with rendition or translation services.
8. QTranslate
It adds translation support and adds user-friendly multilingual content management to any of the WordPress blog or website. It creates human translation, has number of plugins consists into the package, doesn’t involve alteration of .mo files in customizing languages, and single-click swapping between languages.
9. GTS Translation Plugin
With this plugin’s help, you will drive more global traffic to your blog or site through providing high value translation and SEO of translated content. It will upsurge your traffic within 2 months by 30%, supporting over 30 languages, private server and secure is used for translations, translate thru crowdsourcing, and includes retweet button.
10. Microsoft AJAX Translation
A simple and quick option for you in translating your blog with the use of Microsoft Translator API. Translation API can support 38 languages, detects both the source of your language and the language of your visitor, AJAX-powered translation and the ‘on demand’ translation included.
