Zware Simple Translate

Zware Simple Translate adds a language switcher to your site, using the same free widget that Google Translate offers for websites. Unlike other similar plugins, the switcher's style, on-screen position, colors, and behavior are fully customizable without needing a paid version. Features:

• Three switcher styles: dropdown menu, flag list, or floating button.
• Configurable position (any of the 4 screen corners), or "shortcode only" mode to place it manually anywhere with [zware_translate].
• Customizable colors, font size, and border radius.
• More than 35 languages available to choose from.
• Optional SEO mode (separate tab): generates dedicated URLs per language (e.g. /en/your-post/) with the content already translated in the HTML, so search engines can index them. Includes hreflang tags, a per-language canonical tag, and a dedicated cache so only the first visit to each translated URL needs to be translated — the rest are served straight from cache, without affecting the performance of the original site.
• Admin interface available in Spanish and English, written directly into the plugin (does not depend on external community translations that could break).
• No accounts, no API keys, no usage limits.

Important: this plugin uses Google Translate's free engine, both for the switcher and for the SEO mode. Translation quality is the same as what Google offers for free, and does not include paid neural translation (Google Cloud's paid API). The SEO mode uses a free, unofficial Google endpoint; it's free and requires no configuration, but since it isn't an official API there's no absolute long-term availability guarantee. See "External services" below for full details on what is sent to Google and when.

1.0.1

• Fixed: on themes that dynamically switch the menu's text color on scroll (e.g. a transparent header that turns solid), the navigation menu item's <select> kept the color it had when the page first loaded instead of following the change, sometimes becoming unreadable (white text on a white background). The color is now continuously re-synced with the surrounding menu items as the page is scrolled.

1.0

• Initial release.
• Language switcher with three styles (dropdown menu, flags, floating button), customizable position and colors, 35+ languages, navigation menu item, [zware_translate] shortcode, and optional automatic translation based on the visitor's browser language.
• New: optional SEO mode ("SEO" tab), with a language list independent from the main switcher. Generates dedicated per-language URLs with the content translated in the HTML, per-language hreflang and canonical tags, and a dedicated cache so the site's performance in its original language is unaffected.