Translation with DeepL API

76 Quality Score

Active Installs

16/30

At roughly 4,000 active installs it is a niche utility, far behind the category leaders that run into the hundreds of thousands or millions of installs.

Update Freshness

25/25

The plugin was updated on 2026-06-16 and is tested against WordPress 6.9.4, which is a strong sign of active upkeep.

User Rating

12/15

An 80 out of 100 from 29 ratings is positive but comes from a small sample, so the average should be read with some caution.

Support Health

8/15

Only one support thread exists, and it was resolved, so support health is good on paper but the very low volume offers limited signal.

WP Compatibility

15/15

Requiring PHP 8.0 and WordPress 5.1, and being tested on 6.9.4, gives it a clean compatibility score with modern stacks.

Scores higher than 43% of indexed plugins

About

Get DeepL translation magic into your WordPress Admin. Not affiliated with or endorsed by DeepL SE. DeepL® is a registered trademark of DeepL SE.

Active Installs 4k+

Rating ★★★★ 4/5

Last Updated 2026-06-16 8:02am GMT

Requires WordPress 5.1+

Tested Up To 6.9.7

Requires PHP 8.0+

Security History

3 known vulnerabilities, all patched

3 Medium

Most recent: October 25, 2023

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What It Does

Translation with DeepL API brings DeepL's neural machine translation into the WordPress admin, letting editors send post content directly to DeepL and receive translated output back. It is a single-vendor translation helper rather than a full multilingual site framework, so you still need a separate solution for language switching, URL structure, and translated page delivery.

Who It's For

This plugin fits content teams that already publish in one language and want a faster path to draft translations using DeepL, especially news sites, agencies, and SaaS documentation portals that care about translation quality over built-in SEO structure. It works best for editors who are comfortable running the DeepL API in parallel with another multilingual plugin or manual workflow.

Who Should Skip It

If you need a complete multilingual site with language switchers, hreflang, and SEO-ready translated URLs out of the box, this is not enough on its own. Sites that need free or offline translation, or that require broad language coverage beyond what DeepL offers, should look elsewhere.

The Bottom Line

Translation with DeepL API is a focused, well-maintained utility for editors who want DeepL's quality baked into the post editing screen, and its modern PHP 8.0 and WordPress 6.9.4 support is genuinely impressive. The trade-off is small install base, limited community signal, and the fact that it does not stand alone as a multilingual site solution. Treat it as a translation accelerator to pair with a broader multilingual plugin rather than a replacement for one.

Pick GTranslate when you want a turnkey multilingual site with automatic visitor-side translation rather than a DeepL-powered editor workflow.

TranslatePress – Translate Multilingual sites with AI Translation 93/100

Choose TranslatePress if you need a full front-end translation experience plus AI options and you may want to swap providers beyond DeepL.

Loco Translate 89/100

Loco Translate is the better fit if your goal is translating theme and plugin strings, not generating post content translations.

Cyr-To-Lat 86/100

Cyr-To-Lat solves slug transliteration, not content translation, so it is only relevant if you need clean permalinks in Latin script.

Post Duplicator 86/100

Post Duplicator helps you clone posts as a starting point for manual translation, but it does not call any translation API.