Automatically translate WordPress posts and publish them with Polylang

Pulls WordPress posts, translates them with AI, and publishes linked translations automatically through Polylang.

How the work actually flows

A straight line. Runs once per each post or page.

Pattern: Sequence (1) ยท Multiple Instances without Synchronization (12)

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Build size
Standard

A mid-size build with several tools working together.

Business functions
Knowledge Base & RAGTranslation & LocalizationAPI & Webhook Integration
Connects
WordPressPolylangOpenRouter

The problem it solves

Translating your website content by hand means copying text out, pasting it into a translation tool, and manually recreating each post in another language. It's slow, easy to get wrong, and even harder to keep the translated version linked to the original.

Who it fits

Website owners and content teams running a multilingual WordPress site.

How it works

  1. The automation fetches existing posts and pages from your WordPress site
  2. Each post's content is sent to an AI language model for translation
  3. The translated title and content are submitted back to WordPress and published
  4. Polylang automatically links the new translation to the original post
What you get

Translated posts ready to publish

Your WordPress site gains translated versions of your posts, linked together automatically through Polylang.

What you get

Published, AI-translated versions of your WordPress content, correctly linked to the originals.

What you need

A WordPress site with the Polylang plugin and an OpenRouter API key.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

Let's Talk Strategy

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