One of a kind plug-in enabling Deepl API translation

  • This plugin is currently the only way to use the Deepl API (superior machine translation, not entirely free but affordable) in WordPress without forking out over 150$ for a premium version of another translation plugin. It does what it says, running your post text through the Deepl API and return a translation in a number of language options. The documentation is sparse so I wasn’t sure how to best use this with existing translation plugins. When I first installed, the plugin wasn’t working with the latest WordPress but the author fixed it within a few days. Expecting this to help a great deal in running a multilanguage website, and awaiting the planned premium version. Hoping for more documentation on how to set this up to run with the most popular translation plugins, eg. on how to plug into those that offer manual translation options.

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  • Plugin Author malaiac

    (@malaiac)

    Thanks for the review ??
    this plugin is done by a dev, not a marketer, and it shows ^^

    I’m currently trying to pick the first multi lingual plugin to implement. I’m usually using q Translate, but the XT community version is not on www.remarpro.com yet. Polylang seems the most installed.
    Any preferrence ?
    WPML will come but not as a first choice.

    Thread Starter kennyswift

    (@kennyswift)

    Yes it’s a good thing, marketing is another skill and development is what should come first anyway. I previously used WPML for another project because the client had already bought it, but it would be great if DeepL Pro will work with a free plugin. I tried Polylang the other day and it seems to be easy to learn, and being the most popular it could help get your plugin to be universally accepted.

    I didn’t know about qTranslate XT, but seems they are planning to join the official WP repository too, so that could be an option. I’ll give it a try, too (update: just tried installing qTranslate XT, but the remark ‘once translated content is added, there is no way to use the website without qTranslate-XT anymore’ makes me a bit wary to apply it to a live site, especially as long as it’s not yet on www.remarpro.com).

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    Thread Starter kennyswift

    (@kennyswift)

    Update: I noticed that Polylang Pro offers the option of copying post content to the new post, so I went with that. I copy the content to a new post (targeting the language of choice), save it a sa draft and then apply the Deepl translation to replace the existing text. So far it all seems to work pretty well and Polylang does not have a steep learning curve.

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