How To Translate Your WordPress Forms with Weglot

If you’ve been looking to up your SEO game, consider offering a multilingual website experience.  Doing so opens up your brand to a more significant portion of the internet, attracting a larger audience and more customers. So, how do you do it?

All it takes is a quick google search to find that a “fast and easy” WordPress translation solution is as elusive as bigfoot. Yes, translation plugins like Polylang or Loco Translate allow you to bootstrap your own translations.  However, once installed, you find they aren’t as user-friendly as you thought. This leads you into the wild wild west of Upwork, contracting out web developers who “supposedly” specialize in translation services.

Keep calm and take a deep breath because Weglot has come to the rescue.  Weglot is the fastest and most user-friendly WordPress translation solution I have come across.  With Weglot, you can finally complete your own WordPress form translation without a web developer to fill in the missing pieces.

Translate your WordPress form into another language with Weglot in two steps

You can install and activate our free Ninja Forms plugin if you don’t have any forms built for your WordPress website.  After that, navigate to Ninja Forms > Add New.  This will take you to the WordPress form template repository.  Choose the Contact Us form template.  That’s it!  See Weglot and Ninja Forms in action here.

Step 1.  Configure the Weglot WordPress translation plugin

1. Install and activate the Weglot plugin on your WordPress website.  You can get it here or through your WordPress admin.
2. Next, sign up for a free 10-day trial on Weglot.com. Make sure you use discount code NINJAWEGLOT15 so you can get 15% off Weglot pricing on us!
3. After that, you’ll be able to create a new project.  Enter a name for your project and choose WordPress as the Website Technology.
4. In the next step, you should find your API Key.
5. Copy the key, then go back to the Weglot plugin on your WordPress admin.  There should be a field for the API Key in the Settings.  Input the key there.

Step 2.  Translate your WordPress form into any language

Choose your original language and destination languages, and you are done!  Now when you view your WordPress form, look for the language icon ( at the bottom right of your website).  Use the icon to switch between the different languages that you’ve selected in the Destination language field.

I set up my Weglot plugin to translate from English to Indonesian.  This is what my form looks like in English.

And this is what it looks like in Indonesian.

What else can you do with Weglot?

Weglot, as a standalone service, isn’t just for WordPress; its popularity grows with e-commerce platforms too.  Besides WordPress form translation, you can manually review translations, change the translation button icon design, and monitor WordPress website usage.

Manually review the WordPress form translation.

We know that sometimes some words don’t translate well into another language.  With Weglot, you can quickly fix this!  Just go to your Weglot dashboard, click on the language pair you want to review, and you’ll be able to review and edit the translation.

Change your button design.

The minimalistic language button that Weglot provides is lovely, but if you want to customize it, it’s easy.  Go to Weglot plugin settings, where you’ll find the settings to change the button design and location.  You can even override it with some CSS.

Monitor your WordPress website word usage

Please note that Weglot prices depend on your usage.  The Starter plan is for you if your website doesn’t have that much content.  Use this discount code NINJAWEGLOT15 to get 15% off Weglot pricing.

Using Weglot, you can continually monitor your usage through your Weglot dashboard.  It shows you your current plan, current word usage, usage limit, and the current page views.

Start reaching more people with your multilingual WordPress form translations.

When people can browse your website in their own languages, you’re signaling that you ‘get’ them.  You don’t have to be a polyglot to reap the brand and SEO benefits of a multilingual site.  Just let Weglot do its thing.

As much as I love Weglot, we are also big fans of WPML.  They offer a fantastic solution for website and form translations.  For more information, see our guide to translating WordPress forms with WPML.  It’s a quick read that will get you up and running with WPML in no time.

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