WEB-Translation – eTranslation Multilingual

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Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.

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17 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 6 listed. 11 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 2 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.

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How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

Crossed into this band today and a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, so the real count is still just under 500.

1. ★★★★★ 6seven

   4mo ago

   The plugin’s idea is great. I mean it. So, congrats on this project.But– it has a long way to go. It has major bugs, meagre updates, and concerning exclusion of RTL support which affects many people in the EU. From the top of my head: – It lacks RTL capabilities.– It restricts users to the APIs of certain translations companies. This is not acceptable practice for such an app, especially the the companies contracted have untraditional and uncommon practices. By that I mean, you can’t just subscribe and get an API key like in Deepl or something. You probably have to first write an email, discuss quotas, etc. – It has a major bug whereby website navigation triggers language switch, surprising the user. Console shows no errors when this happens. – It has a major limitation whereby bulk translation in settings stops if the user leaves the page! The plugin has no capability to organise jobs.– It is extremely slow, and this is related to the “etranslation” API it is tied with. Current assessment: – Moneyless NGOs can use it, for sure. It’s better than nothing. Finally, no hard feelings please. I know it’s probably about money and politics and that the developers themselves are capable enough to deliver a greater product.

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2. ★★★★★ clear12

   5mo ago

   This is by far the best translation plugin I have tried out! Thank you very much!

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3. ★★★★★ lucasgsl

   1.5y ago

   In combination with the eTranslation service this is by far the best translation plugin I ever came across.It solves so many of the hassles I had with other plugins and on top it saves me over $30/mo.Thanks to the developers for the great work and the EU for the funding!There only was one little problem I had, when using the auto translation feature it would use 100% of my servers CPU for at least a minute per visitor call. But it was no big deal disabling the automatic translation and start the translation manually (both can be mad in the advanced tab).

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4. ★★★★★ thejosetree

   1.6y ago

   What’s the point of using a translation plugin if you cannot translate slugs? It is also surprising that in the documentation it is indicated that slugs can be translated when there is no option to do so in the plugin. It’s a shame because the plugin has a lot of potential and very interesting options. This topic was modified 1 year, 4 months ago by thejosetree.

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5. ★★★★★ BM

   1.9y ago

   Congratulations to this project team.This makes a lot of other expensive multi-language plugins mad (for sure). Maybe they’ll be saying bad things here over the time.In fact, Joomla CMS is doing the same, anyone can translate from stracth all the content in many different languages, without limitations and without having to pay.WordPress should be free to translate content, in many languages, without limitations. And I hope more people can join your project. Thank you for everything.

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6. ★★★★★ comunicacionabierta

   2.2y ago

   To make websites accesible for different language speakers in Europe is something desired by everyone. Solutions that comes from companies sometimes is not the best. To have a connection to the european database to make this possible for free is a real deal. This plugin deserves a try and so for sure it will even improve a lot of things

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7. ★★★★★ webmaster2024007

   2.8y ago

   The co-creators and developers of this plug-in indicate in the description that it can be used free of charge when you receive an API authentication key from the europa(dot)eu website, on which page, the same information is also given. I don’t go into what the deal is between the two, whether it is with public money or private money that this free API is received. To the email given to receive the API authentication key, no one writes back! So this plugin, is a gadget that aims to advertise alternative paid translation providers and as such should be removed from wordpress(dot)org

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Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2026-10-31 500+ → 400+ down after 3 days in tier
2. 2026-10-28 400+ → 500+ up after 219 days in tier
3. 2026-03-23 300+ → 400+ up after 1 days in tier
4. 2026-03-22 400+ → 300+ down after 4 days in tier
5. 2026-03-18 300+ → 400+ up after 140 days in tier
6. 2025-10-29 200+ → 300+ up after 119 days in tier
7. 2025-07-02 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in tier
8. 2025-07-01 200+ → 100+ down after 1 days in tier

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WEB-Translation – eTranslation Multilingual: 400+ active installs, 3.7★ (7 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-10-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/etranslation-multilingual