Tranzly™: A free translation plugin with unlimited languages: one real page per language, with translated web addresses, hreflang and sitemaps.
💡 Already on your sites
Tranzly™ is one of our own plugins and is already installed on the WordPress sites we build for you. It is not counted towards your file or disk allowance. A site still on an older version is brought up to the new one by the checked automatic updates, one site at a time, and keeps its existing translations and language links. It needs PHP 8.2 or newer: a site on an older PHP is moved to PHP 8.3 first (why and how).
Website, live demo and download
Tranzly™’s own website, a live demo you can try, honest comparisons with the alternatives and the free download: tranzly.io · Live demo · Compare with WPML, Weglot and more · Free download. The download link always points at the current free build (WordPress.org once the plugin is listed there).
Free and Pro
Tranzly™ has a free edition and a paid Pro edition (Personal, Business and Agency plans). Pro includes everything in the free edition; the Pro features are in Tranzly™ Pro features. Tranzly Pro: Personal (1 site): USD 89.00 a year or USD 9.99 a month; Business (5 sites): USD 189.00 a year or USD 19.99 a month; Agency (unlimited sites): USD 369.00 a year or USD 39.99 a month. 14-day free trial, no card needed. Buy Tranzly Pro As a hosting customer you get a discount on your first Pro payment: Pro plugin discount.
Foundation
- One post per language, linked together — Each translation is a real WordPress post linked to the original. This is the most compatible approach with themes, page builders and SEO plugins.
- Keeps your old Tranzly translations — Existing Tranzly language links (old cn_* data) are imported automatically on upgrade.
- Translate in the background — Big jobs run in a background queue, so you can close the browser and they carry on. The old version stopped when you closed the tab.
- Latest WordPress and PHP, tested every release — Same test matrix as Page Builder Sandwich.
- Security by design — Permission checks, request tokens, escaping and encrypted API keys. Fixes every problem found in the old version.
- Interface in 58 languages, right-to-left ready — Like our other plugins.
- Unlimited languages — No cap on the number of languages, in free or Pro.
Translation engines
- DeepL (the current integration, kept) — Keep using DeepL with your own key. Supports both Free and Pro DeepL accounts, HTML-aware translation, formality and glossaries.
- AI models with your own key — Translate with OpenAI (ChatGPT), Claude, Google Gemini, Mistral, DeepSeek or OpenRouter, and choose the model.
- Cost estimate before you start — Shows how many words and roughly what it will cost on your own account before translating.
What gets translated
- Posts, pages and custom post types — Title, content, excerpt, featured image alt text.
- Blocks translated safely — Text inside blocks and block settings is translated without breaking the layout or code.
- Categories, tags and custom taxonomies — Names, descriptions and slugs.
- Menus — Separate menu per language, or automatic translation of the menu.
- Page Builder Sandwich pages — Deep integration: every PBS block and template translates perfectly.
- Media — Image alt text, captions and titles.
- Widgets and site title/tagline — Everything visible on the page gets a translation.
Workflow
- Translate one post in one click — From the editor: pick languages, press translate.
- Side-by-side translation editor — Original and translation next to each other, sentence by sentence, with machine vs human-checked status.
- Translation status dashboard — See what is translated, missing or out of date, per language, with one-click fixes.
SEO and URLs
- Language in the URL: /de/, /fr/ — Proper subfolder URLs per language.
- Translated slugs — /about becomes /de/ueber-uns, including category and product URL bases.
- hreflang tags, done right — Correct hreflang links on every page, including x-default. The old version advertised this but never output them.
- Translated sitemaps — Each language in your sitemap, working with Yoast, Rank Math, SEOPress, AIOSEO and WordPress’s own sitemap.
- Correct language and canonical tags — html lang attribute, og:locale, canonical URLs and right-to-left direction per language.
- Suggest the visitor’s language — A polite banner offering the visitor’s own language. It never forces a redirect, so it’s safe for search engines.
Language switcher
- Switcher block for the block editor — Dropdown, list, flags, language names, native names, codes, pills; many designs.
- Switcher element for Page Builder Sandwich — Native element with full styling.
- Menu item, widget and shortcode — Add the switcher to any classic theme menu or sidebar.
- Floating switcher — A corner button that works on any theme with zero setup.
- Accessible switcher — Keyboard and screen-reader friendly; flags are optional because flags aren’t languages.
Developers
- PHP API and template functions — Get a post’s translations, current language, switch language in code.
- Add your own translation engine — A documented interface for adding any provider.
- Hooks, REST API and WP-CLI — e.g. `wp tranzly translate –lang=de –post-type=page`.
More free features
The rest of the free features are in Tranzly™ – more free features.
Updates on your sites
On the WordPress sites we host, Tranzly™ updates itself and every update is checked on your own pages first; if anything changes it is rolled back at once and our developers are told. How that works: Automatic updates.
AI agents (MCP)
A site running Tranzly™ can let an AI agent such as Claude, Cursor or VS Code work with it through 74 abilities, each limited to what the signed-in WordPress user may do: Tranzly™ and AI agents.