ShapeTranslate – Translate Multilingual Sites with AI

توضیحات

ShapeTranslate helps you create and manage a multilingual WordPress website without changing your usual content editing workflow.

Add the languages your website needs, create translations for posts and pages, manage translated taxonomies and menus, and organize language-specific content from your WordPress dashboard. Each language can have its own URL structure, helping visitors and search engines access the appropriate version of your content.

When you create a translation, ShapeTranslate copies the original content into a new draft in the target language. You can then edit the copied content without starting from an empty editor.

The built-in setup wizard helps you configure your languages, choose a URL format, and add a language switcher after activation.

ShapeTranslate supports classic themes, block themes, Elementor, and several popular header and footer builders.

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Overview and features

Video tutorial

Learn how to set up languages, create translations, and add a language switcher:

Key features

• Unlimited languages: Add languages from the WordPress language catalog or configure custom languages.
• Content translation: Translate posts, pages, public custom post types, categories, tags, and custom taxonomies.
• Translation management: Find and manage translations from a central dashboard with search and filters.
• Language-specific URLs: Choose directories, subdomains, separate domains, or query parameters.
• Language switchers: Add language selection to menus, blocks, widgets, Elementor layouts, or a floating switcher.
• Translation synchronization: Choose which supported fields and content properties stay synchronized across translations.
• String translation: Translate the site title, tagline, and supported strings registered by themes and plugins.
• Multilingual SEO: Generate language-specific URLs, hreflang links, and translated sitemap entries.
• Right-to-left support: Support RTL languages in the frontend and translation editor.
• Developer API: Access language information and post or term translations through ShapeTranslate functions.

Languages and localization

• Add as many languages as your website needs.
• Select languages from the WordPress language catalog or create custom languages with their own locale, display name, and text direction.
• Enable, disable, and reorder languages.
• Choose the default language for your website.
• Use more than 100 bundled flags in supported language switchers. Flags are assigned automatically from the language locale.
• Replace a flag by placing your own image (SVG, PNG, WebP, JPG, or GIF) named after the locale, such as fr_FR.svg, in wp-content/uploads/shapetranslate/flags/.
• Support right-to-left languages, including Arabic and Hebrew.

Content translation

• Translate posts, pages, public custom post types, categories, tags, and custom taxonomies.
• Create translations from existing content instead of starting with an empty editor.
• Copy supported source content, taxonomies, public custom fields, featured images, and page templates into a new draft in the target language.
• Link translations together so visitors and administrators can navigate between language versions.
• View available translations and create or edit them from the content editing screen.
• Manage translation status from a central Translations dashboard with search and filtering options.
• Filter post and term lists by language in the WordPress admin.
• Translate media metadata, including alt text, captions, and descriptions, separately for each language while sharing the original media file.
• Filter comment listings, recent comments, and comment feeds by the current language.
• Keep relevant content in the selected language when choosing parent pages, categories, tags, and linked content in the block editor.

Translation synchronization

Choose which supported properties should stay synchronized across translations of a post.

Available synchronization options include:

• Taxonomies, with terms mapped to their corresponding translations.
• Public custom fields.
• Featured images.
• Publication dates, post formats, and sticky status.
• Parent pages, page templates, and page order.
• Comment and ping status.

Synchronization settings let you control which supported data is shared across language versions.

String translation

Manage supported website strings from the ShapeTranslate String Translation screen.

• Translate the site title, tagline, and supported WordPress options.
• Discover strings declared by compatible themes and plugins through their wpml-config.xml configuration.
• Register custom strings with the shapetranslate_register_string() developer function.

The available strings depend on the configuration and integration provided by each theme or plugin.

Language URLs

Choose how visitors access each language:

• Directories: example.com/fr/
• Subdomains: fr.example.com
• Separate domains: Use a different domain for each language.
• Query parameters: example.com/?lang=fr

Additional options include:

• Hide the language prefix from URLs for the default language.
• Enable optional browser language detection for first-time visitors. This feature is disabled by default.
• Keep search forms within the visitor’s current language.

Menus and navigation

Create language-specific navigation while using WordPress’s existing menu management tools.

• Assign different menus to theme locations for each language from Appearance > Menus.
• Translate Navigation block menus in block themes through the Site Editor.
• Automatically link navigation items to the corresponding translated page when a translation is available.

Language switchers

Give visitors several ways to change the language of your website.

Available options include:

• Language Switcher block.
• Language Switcher item in the Navigation block.
• Classic WordPress widget.
• Classic menu item.
• Elementor language switcher widget.
• Floating language switcher positioned in a screen corner.
• Horizontal lists, vertical lists, and dropdown layouts.
• Optional flags and current-language visibility settings.
• Option to hide languages without an available translation.

Theme developers can also display a language switcher using:

shapetranslate_language_switcher()

Multilingual SEO

ShapeTranslate provides language-specific URLs and multilingual SEO signals to help search engines discover translated content.

• Generate separate URLs for language versions.
• Output hreflang links, including x-default.
• Set the appropriate HTML lang attribute.
• Include translated content in WordPress sitemaps.
• Integrate with Yoast SEO, Rank Math, and SEOPress.

SEO behavior may depend on the active URL configuration, available translations, and other plugins installed on the website.

Theme and page builder compatibility

ShapeTranslate supports classic WordPress themes and block themes.

Block themes

• Translate block theme templates and template parts through the Site Editor.
• Manage language-specific headers, footers, and other supported template content.

Elementor

• Translate Elementor pages.
• Support Elementor Pro Theme Builder templates and popups.
• Use the Elementor language switcher widget.

Header and footer builders

Compatibility includes supported header and footer builders from:

• Elementor Header & Footer Builder
• Essential Addons
• ElementsKit
• Element Pack
• Happy Addons

Compatibility applies to the supported integrations and workflows provided by ShapeTranslate; it does not imply that every third-party widget or dynamic feature can be translated.

Performance and developer tools

• Use WordPress core functionality for content and translation management.
• Avoid additional page-output parsing for multilingual page rendering.
• Support full-page caching by serving languages through their configured URLs.
• Set the language cookie in the browser on cached pages.
• Export and import ShapeTranslate settings as JSON to transfer configuration between websites.
• Access language and translation information through the developer API.

Available developer functions include:

• shapetranslate_get_post()
• shapetranslate_get_post_translations()
• shapetranslate_current_language()

What ShapeTranslate does not include

ShapeTranslate focuses on manually creating and managing translations. The following features are not included:

• Automatic or machine translation.
• WooCommerce-specific multilingual handling.
• General translation of arbitrary custom-field values.
• Translation of URL slugs.
• Advanced translated schema management.
• Translation of Elementor widget settings.
• Translation of dynamic tag values.
• Form translation.
• Specialized translation integrations for unsupported third-party add-ons.

Review the supported features and integrations before choosing ShapeTranslate for a website that relies on these workflows.

Privacy Policy

ShapeTranslate – Translate Multilingual Sites with AI uses Appsero SDK to collect some telemetry data upon user’s confirmation. This helps us to troubleshoot problems faster & make product improvements.

Appsero SDK does not gather any data by default. The SDK only starts gathering basic telemetry data when a user allows it via the admin notice. We collect the data to ensure a great user experience for all our users.

Integrating Appsero SDK DOES NOT IMMEDIATELY start gathering data, without confirmation from users in any case.

Learn more about how Appsero collects and uses this data.