Translate WordPress – Google Language Translator

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 97% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

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1. ★★★★★ tejaonthehorizon

   2mo ago

   Ok, so based on my other language, the translation quality isn’t perfect, and if this was crucial I would have gone for the version that allows me to tweak the translation. But since the website is primarily a world travel / geography blog with a storytelling approach to sustainability, what I really needed was a broad language coverage with acceptable translation. Besides, it also allows polyglot readers to suggest better translations. I hope the translations into languages I can’t speak myself is as reasonable as the one I can validate personally. But this plugin allows me to provide, for free, the option for more obscure languages of places I wrote about, rather than just the more popular languages with the most speakers. And that’s what was more important to my website. So far I can’t see any effect to my website speed either.

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2. ★★★★★ GioVargas

   4mo ago

   Produces perfect text in all languages I needed. And I could place it fixed at the bottom rather than floating in front of content.Love it, thank you!

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3. ★★★★★ ming tang

   4mo ago

   非常好用，謝謝！

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4. ★★★★★ williamcaro

   5mo ago

   Very effective and reliable tool.

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5. ★★★★★ mjp041

   7mo ago

   Thanks, I enjoy using Google Translate plugin. Excellent plugin

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6. ★★★★★ usac

   7mo ago

   Excelente plugin

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7. ★★★★★ Detlef

   8mo ago

   GTranslate is simply amazing. It’s nothing short of a miracle. Thank you so much!

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8. ★★★★★ Felix Rizo-Patron

   9mo ago

   thank you very much!

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 6.0.20 Fix for translation issue from toolbar language selector when layout is set SIMPLE Hide text highlight on translated version Nonce check added for ignoring admin notices 6.0.20
2. — Version 6.0.19 Fix for invisible dropdown selector 6.0.19
3. — Version 6.0.18 Fixed going back to original language issue introduced with recent changes to Google Translate widget 6.0.18
4. — Version 6.0.17 Google Translate toolbar visibility fix 6.0.17
5. — Version 6.0.16 Converted get parameters encoding from rfc1738 to rfc3986 Replaced gzdecode with zlib_decode to be zlib encoding type independent 6.0.16
6. — Version 6.0.15 Avoid minification of external Google Translate javascript library by WP Rocket cache plugin 6.0.15

8 disclosed vulnerabilities on record for this plugin, all fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

1. Medium · 5.3 Google Language Translator <= 6.0.19 - Missing Authorization via admin notifications ↗
   2023-12-13 CVE-2023-50375 Missing Authorization Affects <= 6.0.19 Patched in 6.0.20
2. Medium · 5.3 Google Language Translator < 6.0.20 - Missing Authorization to Notice Dismissal ↗
   2023-12-08 Missing Authorization Affects < 6.0.20 Patched in 6.0.20
3. High · 8.8 Translate WordPress with GTranslate <= 2.9.8 & Translate WordPress – Google Language Translator <= 6.0.13 - Missing Authorization to Sensitive Information Disclosure ↗
   2022-03-07 CVE-2022-0770 Missing Authorization Affects <= 6.0.13 Patched in 6.0.14
4. Medium · 4.8 Translate WordPress - Google Language Translator <= 6.0.11 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2021-10-05 CVE-2021-24594 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects < 6.0.12 Patched in 6.0.12
5. High · 7.1 Google Language Translator <= 6.0.9 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2021-07-21 CVE-2021-4452 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects < 6.0.10 Patched in 6.0.10
6. Medium · 6.4 Google Language Translator <= 6.0.9 - Authenticated Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2021-07-20 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects < 6.0.10 Patched in 6.0.10
7. Medium · 6.1 Google Language Translator <= 5.0.05 - Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2016-04-18 CVE-2016-10870 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects < 5.0.06 Patched in 5.0.06
8. Medium · 6.4 Google Language Translator <= 4.0.9 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2015-08-13 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects < 5.0.0 Patched in 5.0.0

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.4.2

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Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• Translate WordPress with GTranslate 900K+ installs · 4.9★ · 4 shared tags A
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• Prisna GWT – Google Website Translator 8K+ installs · 4.4★ · 3 shared tags A
• A Admin Locale 6K+ installs · 4.1★ · 3 shared tags D
• Translate and Go multilingual – Automatic AI translation – wpLingua 2K+ installs · 4.6★ · 3 shared tags A

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