{"id":4181,"date":"2020-01-31T18:41:30","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T18:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demos.welaunch.io\/wordpress-multilingual-multisite\/?post_type=faq&#038;p=693"},"modified":"2020-07-31T11:32:45","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T09:32:45","slug":"wordpress-machine-translation","status":"publish","type":"faq","link":"https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/knowledge-base\/faq\/wordpress-machine-translation\/","title":{"rendered":"How to setup WordPress Machine Translation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Make use of our built in machine translation services. Translate your post or terms automatically without manual work.To use the machine translation services like Google Translate, DeepL or the Microsoft translation service you first need to get an API key.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>See here <a href=\"https:\/\/help.memsource.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/115003461051-Google-Translate-API-Key\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">how to get a Google Translate API Key<\/a><\/li>\n<li>For <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deepl.com\/pro.html#developer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DeepL you need a developer abo Account<\/a><\/li>\n<li>For <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/cognitive-services\/translator\/translator-text-how-to-signup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Microsoft you need a Azure Service<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When you got your API key go into plugin settings and enter the key into the service you want to use. You can then also specify what meta or data keys for posts or terms should be translated using the translation service. By default post data like post_title, post_content, post_excerpt will be translated and for terms it are name, slug, description.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5743\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5743\" style=\"width: 1020px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5743\" src=\"https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/01\/machine-translation-settings-1024x643.png\" alt=\"machine translation settings\" width=\"1020\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/01\/machine-translation-settings-1024x643.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/01\/machine-translation-settings-247x155.png 247w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/01\/machine-translation-settings-510x320.png 510w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/01\/machine-translation-settings-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/01\/machine-translation-settings-768x483.png 768w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/01\/machine-translation-settings-1536x965.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/01\/machine-translation-settings-2048x1287.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5743\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">machine translation settings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So if you know want to translate a post or term open up the specific page. Then you will see a new box called machine translation. Choose a source and target language, then click on update button.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5742\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5742\" style=\"width: 592px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5742\" src=\"https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/01\/use-machine-translations-to-translate-a-single-post-592x1024.png\" alt=\"use machine translations to translate a single post\" width=\"592\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/01\/use-machine-translations-to-translate-a-single-post-592x1024.png 592w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/01\/use-machine-translations-to-translate-a-single-post-247x427.png 247w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/01\/use-machine-translations-to-translate-a-single-post-510x882.png 510w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/01\/use-machine-translations-to-translate-a-single-post-173x300.png 173w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/01\/use-machine-translations-to-translate-a-single-post.png 608w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 592px) 100vw, 592px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5742\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">use machine translations to translate a single post<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If you want to translate multiple items at once, you can use the bulk functionality from WordPress. Mark some posts with the checkbox and choose bulk translation.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5751\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5751\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5751\" src=\"https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/01\/bulk-translate-posts.png\" alt=\"bulk translate posts\" width=\"960\" height=\"658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/01\/bulk-translate-posts.png 960w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/01\/bulk-translate-posts-247x169.png 247w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/01\/bulk-translate-posts-510x350.png 510w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/01\/bulk-translate-posts-300x206.png 300w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/01\/bulk-translate-posts-768x526.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5751\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">bulk translate posts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","product_cat":[],"class_list":["post-4181","faq","type-faq","status-publish","hentry","faq_topics-multilingual-multisite-faq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faq\/4181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/faq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4181"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faq\/4181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5757,"href":"https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faq\/4181\/revisions\/5757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=4181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}