LATW AI Translation for WPML
Automatic AI translation inside WPML, billed to your own API key. No WPML credits, no markup, no middleman.
Solid choice
LATW AI Translation for WPML is a solid plugin choice in 2026, with a few things worth checking first. It runs on 100+ sites, is rated 5/5 and was last updated 10 hours ago, and scores 79/100 on our health check.
- Actively developed — last update 10 hours ago
- Tested with the latest WordPress (7.1)
- Momentum — downloads up 60% vs the previous 30 days
- Small user base (100+ active installs)
- Very few reviews so far
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Daily downloads
Download spikes usually follow a new release — each site that auto-updates counts as a download.
Rankings
Where LATW AI Translation for WPML stands todayWordPress.org search rankings
Live position in the plugin search, top 100| Keyword | Position |
|---|---|
| ai translation | #18 |
| automatic translation | #20 |
| llm translation | #2 |
| machine translation | #8 |
| wpml | #7 |
Version adoption
Share of active sites per release.
Rating breakdown
★★★★★★★★★★ 5 from 2 reviews
About LATW AI Translation for WPML
From the official readme · v3.0.5Description
LATW AI Translation for WPML adds an AI translator to the WPML Translation Management workflow you already use.
WPML keeps doing what it does today: language switching, translation jobs, string translation, the whole multilingual structure of your site. This plugin registers one additional translator inside that pipeline and lets it do the actual translating, using the AI model or translation engine you pick.
You bring your own API key
WPML’s built-in automatic translation is billed in WPML credits. This plugin works differently. You connect your own provider key, and every request goes straight from your WordPress server to OpenAI, Google, Anthropic or DeepL, at their published rates, with nothing added on top by us.
A real example. Translating 30 articles into 3 languages costs €386.00 in WPML Automatic Translation credits. The same job, through this plugin with GPT-5.4 nano, costs $0.45. Same content, same WPML workflow, over 99% off the bill.
Nothing passes through our servers, and no content is stored outside your site and your chosen provider. You are responsible for your own provider billing and usage limits.
How it plugs into WPML
On activation the plugin creates a dedicated virtual translator user, latwaitr_ai_bot, shown in WPML as “LATW AI Translator”, and registers it with WPML as a local translator for your active language pairs.
Assign content to that translator on WPML’s Translation Management screen and the plugin picks the job up automatically, translates it with your chosen engine, and hands the result back through WPML’s own pipeline.
The practical consequence: if WPML can send it for translation, this plugin can translate it. Posts, pages, custom post types, taxonomies, strings, page-builder layouts, third-party integrations. The plugin does not reinvent translation routing, it rides WPML’s.
Who it is for
- Agencies running client sites on WPML that want translation cost moved off the invoice and onto a metered API key
- Site owners with a few hundred pages, where credit-based pricing stops making sense
- Anyone who needs translated content to travel between their own server and one named provider, with no intermediary in between
Features
- Deep WPML integration — runs entirely through WPML’s Translation Management pipeline via a dedicated AI translator user
- Six engines, your choice — MyMemory, Google Translate, OpenAI, Gemini, and in Pro also Claude and DeepL
- Your own model, or any OpenAI-compatible API — point the plugin at a model you host yourself, or at a gateway such as OpenRouter or Groq, and translate through it (Pro)
- String Translation — batch-translate interface, theme and plugin strings from WPML String Translation
- Page builder support — full support for Elementor and Bricks Builder; other WPML-compatible builders should work but are not officially tested
- ACF support — translates Advanced Custom Fields content
- Taxonomy translation — a dedicated screen for categories, tags and custom taxonomies, with per-term status
- SEO metadata — Yoast SEO, Rank Math, SEOPress and All in One SEO titles and descriptions
- Website context — describe your site once and every LLM translation is done with that context in mind
- Cost tracking — every completed job records what it actually cost, priced against the engine that produced it
- Translation history — review any past translation, inspect what was sent and what came back, track status over time
- Custom prompt and glossary — control tone, register and terminology, and lock specific terms to specific translations (Pro)
- Processing modes — translate synchronously for immediate results, or send jobs to the provider’s Batch API for roughly half the price
- Automatic translation — automatically start a translation when creating posts of a selected type (Pro)
- Translate from a chat with Claude or ChatGPT (MCP) — connect your site once and ask your assistant to translate a post, page or product; it runs inside the subscription you already pay for, with no API key and no per-token cost, and saves the result as a WPML-linked translation (Pro)
- Re-translate only changes — edit one paragraph, pay for one paragraph instead of the whole page (Pro)
- Bulk translation — queue dozens of posts for translation in a single action instead of one at a time (Pro)
- WooCommerce — product attribute taxonomies, variations and shop-specific data (Pro)
Free vs Pro
The free version is not a trial. It translates unlimited content into every language configured in WPML, permanently.
Free
- Unlimited translations, all WPML languages
- Posts, pages and custom post types
- Elementor, Bricks and ACF
- WPML String Translation
- Taxonomy translation
- SEO metadata
- Translation history and cost tracking
- All processing modes, including Batch at roughly half price
- Engines: MyMemory, Google Translate, OpenAI GPT-6 luna and GPT-5.4 nano, Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
Pro
Everything in free, plus:
- Automatic translation
- MCP — translate from a chat with Claude or ChatGPT, no API key and no extra token cost
- Bulk translation — queue many posts at once
- Re-translate only changes
- Custom translation prompt
- Glossary
- WooCommerce support
- Engines: Claude Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5 and Haiku 4.5; DeepL; OpenAI GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Terra, GPT-5.5 and more; Gemini 3.8 Flash, 3.7 Flash and more
- Your own model, or any OpenAI-compatible API — a model on your own server, OpenRouter, Groq
- Premium support
Supported content
- Post titles, content and excerpts
- Custom post types
- Elementor and Bricks Builder widgets and modules
- ACF fields
- WPML String Translation strings
- Yoast SEO, Rank Math, SEOPress and All in One SEO metadata
- Categories and custom taxonomies
- WooCommerce products, attributes and variations (Pro)
- Anything else WPML is able to send for translation
Translation engines
Six engines, split into two kinds, plus any endpoint of your own. Language models read the whole page, follow your prompt and your website description, and handle nuance. Machine translation engines are faster and cheaper per word but take no instructions, because there is nothing to instruct.
Language models
- OpenAI — GPT-6 luna and GPT-5.4 nano in free; GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Terra, GPT-5.5 and more in Pro
- Google Gemini — Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite in free; Gemini 3.7 Flash, 3.6 Flash and more in Pro
- Anthropic Claude — Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5 and Haiku 4.5 (Pro)
Machine translation
- Google Translate — Neural Machine Translation, billed per character
- DeepL — billed per character (Pro)
- MyMemory — translation memory with machine translation fallback, free within a daily quota
Your own endpoint (Pro)
- Any API that speaks OpenAI’s chat format: a model you host yourself (Ollama, vLLM, LM Studio, llama.cpp), or a gateway such as OpenRouter or Groq. You enter the address, the model name and what it costs.
Each engine stores its own API key and model separately, so switching between them, and back again, costs you nothing in reconfiguration.
Requirements
- WordPress 6.2 or higher
- PHP 7.4 or higher
- WPML — required, this is an add-on and not a standalone translation plugin
- An API key for the engine you choose. MyMemory needs none, and neither does a model you host yourself.
Third-Party Services
Content is sent only to the engine you selected in the plugin settings, and only when you start a translation. Nothing is sent without your action, and every request goes directly from your WordPress server to that provider.
OpenAI API
- Service URL: https://api.openai.com/
- Privacy Policy: https://openai.com/privacy/
- Terms of Use: https://openai.com/terms/
Google Gemini API
- Service URL: https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/
- Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
- Terms of Use: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms
Google Cloud Translation API
- Service URL: https://translation.googleapis.com/
- Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
- Terms of Use: https://cloud.google.com/terms
MyMemory (Translated S.r.l.)
- Service URL: https://api.mymemory.translated.net/
- Privacy Policy and Terms of Use: https://mymemory.translated.net/terms-and-conditions
- Usage limits: https://mymemory.translated.net/doc/usagelimits.php
Installation
Quick start
- Install and activate LATW AI Translation for WPML
- Go to AI Translator > Settings, choose an engine and paste its API key. Starting with MyMemory needs no key at all.
2.5. Optionally write a short website description, so the language model knows what kind of site it is translating - Open Translations page, select your content, and translate it.
The plugin picks the job up from there and returns the finished translation through WPML. Check Translation History to see what was sent, what came back, and what it cost.
Adding Pro
Pro is a separate add-on plugin that runs alongside this one. Install this plugin first, then upload the Pro .zip under Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin and activate it. The extra engines, the glossary and automatic translation appear on the screens you already know — there is no second settings page and nothing to migrate.
Where to get an API key
The settings screen links straight to the right page for each engine, with step-by-step instructions:
- OpenAI — platform.openai.com/api-keys
- Google Gemini — aistudio.google.com/apikey
- Google Translate — a Google Cloud API key with the Cloud Translation API enabled
- Anthropic Claude (Pro) — console.anthropic.com
- DeepL (Pro) — deepl.com/pro-api
- Custom endpoint (Pro) — whatever your provider issues, for example openrouter.ai/keys or console.groq.com/keys; a model on your own server usually needs no key
- MyMemory — no key required
Frequently asked questions
Do I need WPML?
Yes. This is an add-on for WPML, not a standalone translation plugin. It extends WPML with AI-powered automatic translation and does nothing without it.
How is this different from WPML’s own automatic translation?
WPML bills automatic translation in WPML credits, purchased from WPML. This plugin bills nothing at all: you connect your own provider key and the provider charges you directly at their list price. There is no markup and no intermediary. In exchange you manage your own API account and your own spending limits.
What can I do with the free version?
Translate unlimited content into every language configured in WPML, using MyMemory, Google Translate, OpenAI GPT-6 luna, GPT-5.4 nano or Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite. Posts, custom post types, taxonomies, ACF, Elementor, Bricks, SEO metadata and WPML strings are all included. It is not a trial and it does not expire.
How much does translation actually cost?
It depends on the engine and the volume. Language models bill per token, Google Translate and DeepL bill per character, MyMemory is free within its quota. Rough guide for a single 1,000-word page: OpenAI GPT-5.4 nano — under $0.01 Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite — under $0.01 Google Translate — $20 per million characters MyMemory — free, within its daily quota Batch mode — roughly half the synchronous price For a full project: 30 articles into 3 languages runs to €386.00 in WPML Automatic Translation credits, against $0.45 with GPT-5.4 nano through this plugin.
Which engine should I choose?
If quality on nuanced content matters most, use a language model. It sees the whole page, follows the translation prompt and your website description, and keeps tone consistent. If you are pushing large volumes of straightforward text and cost is the priority, Google Translate and DeepL are cheaper and faster, and MyMemory is free within its daily quota.
Can I switch engines later?
Yes, at any time. Each engine keeps its own key and model setting, so switching back does not mean re-entering anything.
Do Google Translate, DeepL and MyMemory use the prompt?
No. They ignore the translation prompt, the website description and the reasoning effort setting. They are translation engines rather than language models, so there is nothing to prompt.
Can I customise the translation prompt?
In the free version the prompt is fixed and shown read-only on the Settings page, but you can add a website description that is passed to the model with every translation. A fully editable prompt, along with a glossary for locking specific terms, is a Pro feature.
What are the processing modes?
Synchronous waits for the provider and fills in the translation in the same run. Fastest feedback, full price. Background is OpenAI-only. It finishes in minutes without holding a long request open, and is the default where available. Batch sends the job to the provider’s Batch API for roughly half the price and collects it when ready, usually within the hour, though providers only guarantee a 24-hour window. All three modes are available in the free version. Google Translate, DeepL and MyMemory run synchronously only, because they have no Batch API. That is safe even for long posts, since…
What is bulk translation, and how is it different from Batch mode?
They solve different problems and the names are easy to confuse. Batch mode is about price: a single job is sent to the provider’s Batch API instead of being translated immediately, and comes back at roughly half the cost. Available to everyone. Bulk translation (Pro) is about volume: you select dozens of posts and queue them all for translation in one action, rather than assigning them one at a time. It works with any processing mode.
Can I translate from a chat with Claude or ChatGPT?
Yes, with Pro. Pro includes an MCP server: connect your site once to Claude or ChatGPT, then ask the assistant to translate a post, page or product. It reads the content through WPML, translates it inside the subscription you already have, so there is no API key and no per-token charge, and publishes the result as a WPML-linked translation with blocks and internal links intact. The free version does not include MCP.
Does it work with WooCommerce?
WooCommerce support is a Pro feature. Products are ordinary posts as far as WPML is concerned, so the free version translates whatever WPML hands over, but it has no shop-specific handling: no product attribute taxonomies (pa_*), no variations, no other WooCommerce data. Pro adds that handling and supports it.
Does it work with page builders?
Elementor and Bricks Builder are fully supported. Other builders compatible with WPML should work, but have not been officially tested.
Can I translate WPML strings?
Yes. The plugin integrates with WPML String Translation, so interface strings, theme strings and plugin strings can be batch-translated through your chosen engine directly from the plugin.
Can I see what was translated?
Yes. The Translation History page shows every past translation, what was sent, what came back, the status of each job and what it cost.
How are translations queued?
Through WordPress Cron, in the background, so long jobs do not time out. You can check cron status from the admin UI.
What happens when my Pro license expires?
The version you have keeps working, but you stop receiving updates until you renew. The free version continues working regardless, with no license at all.
Changelog
If you use the Pro add-on with OpenAI or Gemini, translations now use the model you selected in Settings instead of the default one. If that model costs more per token, so will your translations — check your Model setting after updating.
3.0.5
- Fix: with the Pro add-on installed, translations ignored the OpenAI or Gemini model chosen under AI Translator → Settings → General → Model and were always sent to the default model (GPT-5.4 nano or Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite). The model you select is now the one that translates.
3.0.4
- New: Translated Post Status. Choose the status a newly created translation gets — the same as the original post (default), Published, Draft, Pending Review or Private. Find it under AI Translator → Settings → Translation. Existing translations keep their current status when they are translated again.
- Fix: private, pending and scheduled posts were missing from the AI Translator → Translations list, so they could not be translated. They are listed now, and the Status filter covers them too.
3.0.3
- Fix: the upgrade banner and the review request could not be dismissed for good. Closing them, or choosing “Maybe later” or “Don’t show again”, hid them only until the next page load.
3.0.2
- New: GPT-6 Luna. OpenAI’s new low-cost model is now available to pick under AI Translator → Settings → General → Model.
3.0.1
- Improvement: a translation that the AI provider refuses now fails immediately, with the reason. When the provider rejects the request itself — a model it does not know, a setting it does not accept, a key it does not like — the same request is no longer sent two more times before giving up. You see what the provider said on the first attempt, on the Translations and History screens. Timeouts, rate limits and provider outages are still retried.
3.0.0
- The Pro version is now an add-on. It installs alongside this plugin instead of replacing it, so this plugin holds the translation engine, the screens and the history for both. If you only use the free version, nothing changes.
- New: a translation that fails is retried instead of giving up. A request the AI engine rejects or drops is sent again up to three times before the translation is marked as failed, so a passing glitch at the provider no longer costs you a translation.
- New:
wp latwaitr runprocesses the queue from WP-CLI, for sites where WP-Cron is unreliable. - New: a translation can now be checked, corrected or rejected by your own code before it is saved into WPML.
- Improvement: Target Languages now starts with every language WPML is set up for ticked, instead of nothing, so the plugin is ready to translate straight away. Untick the ones you do not want; an empty list is filled in again, as it would leave the plugin translating nothing.
- Improvement: switching translation engine no longer disturbs translations already in progress — each one is finished by the engine it was sent to.
- Fix: after sending content for translation the page did not refresh, so the Active Translation Queue stayed hidden until you reloaded it by hand. The confirmation pop-up is gone with it — the message now appears on the refreshed page.
- Fix: the plugin could take over translation jobs assigned to a different translator in WPML.
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LATW AI Translation for WPML: quick answers
Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.
Live data from WordPress.org · checked Oct 10, 2026
Is LATW AI Translation for WPML free?
Yes. LATW AI Translation for WPML is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.
Is LATW AI Translation for WPML safe to use in 2026?
LATW AI Translation for WPML is a solid plugin choice in 2026, with a few things worth checking first. It runs on 100+ sites, is rated 5/5 and was last updated 10 hours ago, and scores 79/100 on our health check.
How many websites use LATW AI Translation for WPML?
LATW AI Translation for WPML is active on 100+ WordPress websites and has been downloaded 4,351 times since it launched in February 2026. It was downloaded 1,554 times in the last 30 days.
Does LATW AI Translation for WPML work with WordPress 7.1?
Yes. The developer has tested LATW AI Translation for WPML up to WordPress 7.1.3, the latest release. It requires WordPress 6.2 or newer.
What PHP version does LATW AI Translation for WPML need?
LATW AI Translation for WPML requires PHP 7.4 or higher. Most hosts run PHP 8.x today, so it works on any modern WordPress hosting.
When was LATW AI Translation for WPML last updated?
The latest version, 3.0.5, was released on October 9, 2026 (10 hours ago).
Who makes LATW AI Translation for WPML?
LATW AI Translation for WPML is developed and maintained by szymon0zawadzki.
What are the best alternatives to LATW AI Translation for WPML?
The most popular alternatives to LATW AI Translation for WPML are TranslatePress (400K+ installs), LocoAI (70K+ installs) and Translate WordPress with We… (50K+ installs).
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