Translation EditorThe Translation Editor can be accessed from both the Settings page or from the Admin bar.
Normally, you can access it from the WordPress Admin Bar -> Translate Site button.
If the Admin Bar is not available (for example, wordpress.com hosting replaces the default admin bar with it』s own), you can access it from WordPress -> Settings -> TranslatePress -> Translate Site.
It』s a simple interface that allows you to translate your website page by page.
Edit visible text
The main functionality of the translation editor is the possibility to translate string by string your entire page.
Simply hover over a string, click the edit button that appears on the left and translate your string in the left translation interface.
Changing language
Selecting a new language will allow you to navigate your site in that particular language, making it a lot easier to notice untranslated strings.
Search for a string
Not all detected string are visible in the page. Strings like SEO Title, meta description and sometimes other strings that don』t have a the edit button can be found by simply searching the list of strings.
Browse As
You can Browse your website from the translation editor as your self (logged in) or as a non-logged in user. This makes it easy to translate pages that are dynamic based on the logged in / non-logged-in status.
You can navigate as a different user role with the Browse as Role Addon.
Translate SEO elements
The SEO Addon is only available in the paid versions of the plugin.
Using this addon you can translate all the SEO elements from every page:
URL post/page/custom post type slug
page title
page description
image alt tag
Facebook and Twitter title and descriptions (these are usually added by your SEO plugin and appear when users share your content)
To translate the above, choose them from the string list under Meta Information.
TranslatePress works out of the box with all SEO plugins.
Using the SEO Pack addon, TranslatePress will extend the sitemaps functionality added by SEO plugins and automatically create a multilingual sitemap that includes all your translated content.
Multilingual Sitemap support is added for the most popular SEO plugins:
Yoast
Rank Math
SEOPress
Having these important SEO elements translated, as well as creating a multilingual XML Sitemap will have a major impact on your site ranking into multiple languages.
Here』s a short video covering how to translate the most important SEO elements using TranslatePress and its SEO Pack addon:
Translation Blocks
To translate larger blocks of html with a single translation you need to join multiple translation strings into a translation block.
Merging a string with its parent paragraph is done by hovering a string that you want to join with its surrounding strings within the parent. Click the merge button shown for the hovered string.The block that will be merged is now highlighted in the live preview. The full text containing the HTML structure, is now shown in the left sidebar where you can optionally add a translation. Click the Save Translation button to confirm the creation of the translation block.
Merging a translation block
Now the translation block will be translated as a whole. You can edit the translation by clicking the Edit button . When writing a translation for the translation block, be careful to insert a valid HTML in the translation block.
Note: The merging icon will be available only to the strings compatible with translation blocks. Merging is allowed within block elements such as paragraphs and divs. Content received through wp-ajax requests is also compatible.The translation block is not compatible with Gettext strings or strings dynamically inserted with JavaScript.
To go back to translating individual strings from a created translation block you need to hover it and click the Split button . A pop-up will appear asking you to confirm separating the translation block into smaller pieces. The translation of the whole translation block will be available anytime you decide to merge back again.
How to Translate words in different contexts
You can also specifically select any HTML block to be translated as a whole by adding the class 『translation block』 to it. For example:
Translate
everything
inside
Image translation
Find out how to show different images for different languages in our image translation documentation.
Link translation
Find out which links can be manually translated and which are automatically translated in our link translation documentation.
Keyboard Shortcuts
Take advantage of the Translation Editor』s keyboard shortcuts to speed up the translation process.