2FOX4 Translate to English

Von Oliver Deppe von 2FOX4.

2FOX4 Translate to English translates your German WordPress website into English using professional translation APIs. It automatically detects the visitor’s browser language and serves translated content under SEO-friendly /en/ URLs.

Translations are stored as native WordPress posts and pages, ensuring full compatibility with SEO plugins like Yoast SEO and RankMath, XML sitemaps, Open Graph tags, and social sharing.

Key Features:

• Native WordPress Storage — Translations are real WordPress posts/pages, fully compatible with SEO plugins, sitemaps, and the WordPress ecosystem.
• Automatic Language Detection — Detects the browser language via the Accept-Language header and redirects non-German visitors to the English version.
• Three Translation Providers — Choose between DeepL, OpenAI (GPT-4o), or Google Cloud Translation. Switch providers at any time.
• SEO-Friendly URLs — Translated pages live under /en/ (e.g., /en/about-us/) with proper hreflang tags and canonical URLs.
• Admin Translation Editor — Side-by-side view with the German original (read-only) and the English translation (editable). Review and refine machine translations before publishing.
• Translation Workflow — Four-step status system: Draft, Machine Translated, Reviewed, Published.
• Language Switcher — Use the [translatetoenglish_switcher] shortcode to display a DE/EN toggle with flag icons anywhere on your site.
• Staleness Detection — Automatically detects when the German source content has changed and marks the translation as outdated.
• Hidden in Admin — English translations are hidden from the normal Posts/Pages lists to keep your admin clean. Manage all translations via the dedicated 2FOX4 Translate to English menu.
• Extensible Architecture — Hooks and filters allow developers to add custom providers, modify translations, and control behavior.

Supported Content:

• Posts
• Pages

How It Works:

1. Install and activate the plugin.
2. Go to 2FOX4 Translate to English > Settings and enter your API key for your preferred provider.
3. Open any post or page and click “Translate Now” in the TranslateToEnglish metabox.
4. Review the translation in the side-by-side editor and publish it.
5. Visitors with a non-German browser language are automatically redirected to the /en/ version.

External Services

This plugin connects to third-party translation services to provide its core functionality. No data is sent to any service until you configure an API key and actively trigger a translation. The plugin sends your page titles, content, and excerpts to the selected provider for translation.

DeepL API

When DeepL is selected as the translation provider, your page content is sent to DeepL’s translation servers for processing.

• Service: https://www.deepl.com
• Terms of Use: https://www.deepl.com/en/pro-license
• Privacy Policy: https://www.deepl.com/en/privacy

OpenAI API

When OpenAI is selected as the translation provider, your page content is sent to OpenAI’s Chat Completions API.

• Service: https://openai.com
• Terms of Use: https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use
• Privacy Policy: https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy

Google Cloud Translation API

When Google Translate is selected as the translation provider, your page content is sent to Google’s Cloud Translation servers.

• Service: https://cloud.google.com/translate
• Terms of Service: https://cloud.google.com/terms
• Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

PayPal (Donate Link)

The plugin readme contains a donate link to PayPal (paypal.com/paypalme). Clicking this link opens the PayPal website in the user’s browser. No data is sent to PayPal by the plugin itself.

• Service: https://www.paypal.com
• Terms of Service: https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/useragreement-full
• Privacy Policy: https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full