AI Translate

Descripción

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

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NetCare