Translation for visitor comments
The greatest challenge in running a multilingual site is moderating comments and replying to visitors. Without actively participating in the discussing, it’s impossible to build a community around your blog.
With WPML, managing multilingual comments is exactly like doing it in your language. WPML will translate all visitor comments to your language and translate back your replies.
How WPML’s comments translation works
Supposing you’ve written a blog post in English and translated it to Spanish.
Sofi reads it and leaves a comment in Spanish:
Me gusta esta idea. ¿Dónde puedo leer más acerca de su nuevo programa?
When you go to WordPress dashboard, you see a new message. But, it’s not in Spanish. For you, it’s waiting in English:
You reply to Sofi, in English:
I’m glad to hear that. Have a look in the services section or contact me via our contact page to discuss this offline.
and your reply appears in Spanish:
Hey! We’re having conversations with people in their language. How did that happen?
When Sofi left her reply in Spanish, WPML sent it for automatic machine translation. It’s free and works instantly. This doesn’t give the most accurate translation, but it’s free and instant and you can understand what visitors are saying.
On the other hand, when you reply, the same translator who translates the site for you will do the translation. This provides excellent translation and will read like you’re speaking the language (this feature requires using professional translation).
We can’t use free machine translation to translate your replies because they’re published for everyone to see. Machine translation gives reasonable results, but is not going to produce texts you can be proud of.
How much does it cost?
Translation for visitor comments to your language is free. This is done by a machine (Google) and doesn’t require any work from anyone (besides 10,000 engineers working for Google). You will be able to understand visitor comments and moderate them.
Translating your replies costs 0.07 USD / word.
Setting up comments translation
Go to WPML->Comments translation.
Comments translation controls
You can enable comment translation per user. There’s a separate control for translating visitor comments and for translation replies.
To select your language (the language to which visitor comments are translated), go to your profile page. At the bottom, you’ll find a new section which lets you select your language.
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