Self-hosted multilingual for WordPress: translate your site into 40+ languages, cache them in your database, and edit any translation.
Alternatives to SML – Simple Multilingual – Translation & Language Switcher
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Relevant replacements
WordPress plugins with similar use cases
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WTranslatorv1.0.19
Translate your site into 248+ languages with a language switcher. Free visitor-side translation via Google Translate; paid plans add SEO-ready pages.
aliniov1.3.1
Translate the website into many languages with the alinio widget.
Translangatedv1.0.0
Translate your WordPress site into any language with a visual editor, DeepL & Google automatic translation, multilingual SEO and a language switcher.
Translate WordPress into 110+ languages with AI. Multilingual plugin with SEO-friendly URLs, hreflang tags, language switcher, and glossary rules.
Websel Multilingualv0.5.1
Leave WPML without losing your translated URLs. Imports into one post per page with /en/ /fr/ prefixes, hreflang and Yoast support.
Translate WordPress into 200+ languages. AI translation plugin for multilingual websites — WooCommerce, SEO, hreflang, Google Translate.
WD Translatorv1.0.0
Website translation with Google Translate and OpenAI GPT support. Add a language switcher widget to translate your site content.
Adds a language selector for automatic page translation using Google Translate.
Zware Simple Translatev1.0.2
Fully customizable language switcher using Google Translate's free widget as the translation engine, with an optional SEO mode.