LATW AI Translation for Polylang

Yes. This is an add-on for Polylang, not a standalone translation plugin. It needs Polylang active with at least two languages, and does nothing without it.

Both. Polylang Pro lets the plugin reuse Polylang's own export and reassembly machinery; on Polylang free the plugin uses its own content walker. The screens and the results are the same either way.

Translate unlimited content into every language configured in Polylang, using MyMemory, Google Translate, OpenAI GPT-6 Luna or GPT-5.4 Nano, or Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite. Posts, custom post types, taxonomies, strings, ACF, Elementor, SEO metadata and custom fields are all included. It is not a trial and it does not expire.

It depends on the engine and the volume — you pay the provider directly, at their rates. Language models bill per token, Google Translate bills per character, MyMemory is free within its quota. As a rough guide, a single 1,000-word page through GPT-5.4 Nano or Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite costs well under one cent. Every completed job records what it actually cost, so the History screen shows real figures for your own content rather than an estimate.

No. Content goes from your server to the engine you selected and back. It does not pass through our servers, and we neither see nor store it.

If quality on nuanced content matters most, use a language model — OpenAI or Gemini. It reads 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 is cheaper and faster, and MyMemory is free within its daily quota.

Yes, at any time. Each engine keeps its own key and model setting, so switching back does not mean re-entering anything.

No. They ignore the translation prompt and the website description. They are machine translation engines rather than language models, so there is nothing to prompt.

This plugin ships one prompt, and the Settings page prints it in full so you can see exactly what is sent. You can still add a website description, which is passed to the model with every translation. Writing a prompt of your own, and a glossary for locking specific terms, come with Pro.

Every language you have configured in Polylang. There is no per-language limit in the free version.

Synchronous waits for the provider and fills in the translation in the same run. Background is OpenAI-only. It finishes without holding a long request open, and is the default where available. Batch is OpenAI-only too. It sends the job to OpenAI's Batch API for roughly half the price and collects it when ready, usually within the hour, though OpenAI only guarantees a 24-hour window. Gemini, Google Translate and MyMemory run synchronously only.

Elementor is supported. Bricks, Divi, Beaver Builder, Oxygen and WPBakery are deliberately refused: their content lives in their own storage format, and translating it would produce an empty page or an untranslated copy. Those posts are marked in the list with the reason, rather than silently producing a broken translation.

Products are ordinary posts as far as Polylang is concerned, so the plugin translates whatever Polylang hands over. There is no shop-specific handling — product attribute taxonomies and variations are not covered.

Yes. Settings > Custom Fields takes a list of meta keys to translate in addition to the defaults, and a list to exclude. The exclusion list wins.

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 term. It runs inside the subscription you already have, so there is no API key and no per-token charge, and publishes the result as a Polylang-linked translation. The free version does not include MCP.

Yes. The History screen shows every past translation, what was sent, what came back, the status of each job and what it cost. The Logs screen carries the technical detail.

Jobs go to your chosen engine and are collected by WP-Cron in the background, so long pages do not time out. Cron health is shown on the dashboard. If your host blocks WP-Cron, enable Manual Check Responses in Settings > Advanced to get a button that collects finished jobs on demand.

They stay. Translated posts, terms and strings are ordinary Polylang content and belong to your site. Deleting the plugin removes its own queue table, settings and logs, and nothing else.

The version you have keeps working, but you stop receiving updates until you renew. The free version continues working regardless, with no licence at all.