Automatically translate WordPress posts and custom fields

When you publish a WordPress post, it gets translated into your other site languages automatically.

How the work actually flows

A straight line.

Pattern: Sequence (1)

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Build size
Advanced

A larger build with multiple systems, AI reasoning, and custom rules.

Business functions
Translation & LocalizationAPI & Webhook Integration
Connects
WordPressOpenAIDeepL

The problem it solves

Keeping a multilingual WordPress site up to date means retranslating every post and custom field by hand, including fields your page builder or theme uses that plugins often miss. It's slow, and it's easy for translations to fall out of sync with the original.

Who it fits

Developers and content managers running multilingual WordPress sites with custom fields.

How it works

  1. A post is created or updated in WordPress.
  2. The system pulls the full post content, including custom fields.
  3. AI detects the original language so it only translates what's missing.
  4. DeepL translates the text while keeping formatting intact.
  5. The translated version is saved back to WordPress as a linked draft.
What you get

Translated drafts waiting in every language

When you publish a WordPress post, a translated version in your other site languages appears automatically.

What you get

A translated draft of your post, linked to the original, ready to publish.

What you need

A WordPress site with application password access, an OpenAI API key, and a DeepL 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.

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