{"id":2575,"date":"2015-03-25T12:27:37","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T12:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wiki.davelevy.info\/?p=2575"},"modified":"2022-04-14T06:39:48","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T06:39:48","slug":"auto-translating-a-web-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/auto-translating-a-web-page\/","title":{"rendered":"Auto-translating a web page"},"content":{"rendered":"

This page was originally set up in 2015 when looking at using REST to invoke web site translations. My original code is still available on the test web site<\/a> and below but Google & Babelfish have changed their APIs. I decided to refactor the page in 2022. The changes in the google API have been significant and my ambitions of including popular first languages in the UK led me to implement<\/a> the gtranslate widget in 2022. This post has some use if you want to copy the version 2 code, but I have marked the page as ‘deprecated’.
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Translation<\/h3>\n

This section of the post is in three parts. The original\u00a0 post, when I updated it to add some more popular languages in use in the UK and thirdly about implementing the plugin\/widget. These are documented in the following order, the recent hand crafted solution, shown on one of my test sites<\/a>, my searching for a widget, and then the old code, which you can hide, as it uses a retired google translate API.<\/p>\n

Version 2<\/h4>\n

I made some changes today in the translation code, you’ll need to check the code; it moves the site to a google domain and translates the URL too, even when a domain changes.<\/p>\n

Here is the current Polish code;<\/p>\n

<A HREF=”https:\/\/test-davelevy-info.translate.goog\/?_x_tr_sch=http&_x_tr_sl=en&_x_tr_tl=pl&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp”
\nTITLE=”polski, t\u0142umaczenie Google”><IMG SRC=”images\/pl.png” ALT=”Polish” WIDTH=”16″ HEIGHT=”11″ BORDER=”0″><\/A><\/p>\n

I developed this by hand, and the test site now has an extra four translation buttons, which is a bit of a pain. So I had a look to see if there are any plugins,<\/p>\n

Plugins<\/h4>\n

I found these articles,<\/p>\n

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    1. 9 Best WordPress Translation Plugins for Multilingual Websites<\/a>\u00a0from wpbeginner, who have always been good in the past.<\/li>\n
    2. https:\/\/blog.hubspot.com\/website\/best-language-translation-plugins-for-wordpress<\/a>, from blog.hubspot.com by Amanda Sellars, she does 11, but repeats the popular ones from wpbeginner.<\/li>\n
    3. gtranslate, a wordpress plugin<\/a>, 5 Stars, 300,000+ installs and over 2300 reviews, and is recommended by wpbeginner<\/li>\n
    4. Google website translator<\/a> also looks interesting; a one off fee published by someone, or a collective called prisna.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n