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Creating forms on a WordPress site is easy with WPForms, but what if your audience speaks multiple languages? That’s where AI-powered translation steps in!
By combining WPForms with AI translation, you can translate your forms quickly and reach a global audience, without needing a full team of translators.
In this guide, I’ll walk you through the basics of setting up an AI-translated form in WordPress with WPForms via 2 different methods.
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How to Translate Your WordPress Forms with AI
If you simply want to translate your form within the form builder, you can rely on the functionality available with the WPForms AI chatbot.
On the other hand, if you want to create a multilingual site with multiple form translations, it may be better suited for you to use Universally.
Universally is an AI-powered translation plugin that automatically translates your entire WordPress site, and it works perfectly with WPForms. Let’s dive into the steps for both methods:
Method #1: Use WPForms AI to Translate Your Forms
WPForms is the best form builder plugin for WordPress and comes with a ton of features, addons, and integrations to make your form building incredibly easy.
Step 1: Upgrade to a Paid WPForms Plan
Among the numerous features available is the WPForms AI assistant, which is available to all paid customers – Basic, Plus, Pro, and Elite.
So, if you are using the WPForms Lite version, the first step you need to take is upgrade to a paid plan in order to access our AI chatbot.
Step 2: Create Your WordPress Form with AI
Once you upgrade to a paid plan, simply head to the form builder screen. From your WordPress dashboard, click on WPForms, and then the Add New button.
On the next screen, enter your form name, hover your mouse over the Generate with AI option, and then click the Generate Form button.
This will redirect you to the AI form builder screen. Describe the form you would like to create or use one of the example prompts below to get started.
For the purposes of this tutorial, I’m just going to ask the AI chatbot to create a simple contact form for me by describing the form and the fields I’ll require.
WPForms AI will create the form as requested. At this point, feel free to engage with the chatbot to modify the form or proceed with the next step to translate it.
Step 3: Translate Your WordPress Form with AI
Once you feel satisfied with the form created by WPForms AI, you can enter a prompt to translate the entire form into any language of your preference.
For instance, if I want to translate the contact form in my example to Spanish, I’ll enter a straightforward prompt like “Please translate this form into Spanish.”
As you can see in the image above, the form has successfully been translated into Spanish. If you’re satisfied with the result, simply click on the Use this form button.
You will now be redirected to the form builder screen, where you can add, remove, or change the order of the fields and make any other customizations to your form.
Bear in mind that when you translate a form with the WPForms AI chatbot, your notifications and confirmation messages will also be translated.
Now, all you have to do to start accepting entries to your translated form is test it to see if everything works perfectly and then publish it.
Method #2: Use the Universally Plugin to Translate Your Forms
The above method is the fastest way to translate your forms. But if you need to translate your entire website, you’ll need a dedicated translation and languages plugin like Universally.
With Universally, you can translate:
- Forms
- Pages
- Posts
- Menus
- Theme Text
- And More…
Universally uses AI to handle translations automatically. If you’d prefer more control over your translations, WPML is worth considering. It supports both manual translation and AI translation, so you can review and edit each one yourself.
Step 1: Set Up the Following Plugins
To translate WPForms with Universally, install and activate the following plugins:
Once you’ve installed the above plugins, make sure you have a form created on your WordPress website. WPForms offers a huge list of 2,100+ WordPress form templates to kick off the form creation process.
Step 2: Configure Universally on Your WordPress Site
To set up Universally, head over to the Universally website and sign up for an account. Once you’re signed up, you’ll land in your Universally dashboard, where you manage your projects and translations.
From the dashboard, click the + Add Project button to create your first project.
Next, a short form will appear asking you to enter your site’s domain, give your project a name, and select the language your content is currently written in.
You’ll also need to choose WordPress as your platform. When everything looks right, click the Next button.
After your project is created, you’ll land on a setup screen where you can connect everything to WordPress.
First, click the Install Plugin button. A new window will open now, where you simply click Install and then Activate to add the Universally plugin to your WordPress site.
Next, click Activate to connect your API key. Another new window will open and automatically link your site to Universally using the API key.
Simply click the Confirm and connect button, and the window will close on its own.
Step 3: Translate WPForms with Universally
With your site connected, you can now click the Add Languages button on the setup screen.
This will take you to a new page and open another popup window where you can choose what language you want to translate your site and forms into.
Universally supports more than 110 languages. Simply select the language you want from the dropdown list labeled Language, you can add as many as your Universally plan allows.
For this tutorial, I’ll choose Spanish.
If the language you’ve selected has regional variants, you’ll also be asked to choose a region. Spanish, for example, has variants for Spain, Mexico, Argentina, and more. Just pick the one that best matches your target audience.
After that, you can also choose a URL format for that language. There are three options:
- Language code uses the standard language code as the URL prefix (e.g., /es/ for Spanish). This is the simplest choice and works well if you’re targeting a broad audience without differentiating by region.
- Region code includes the specific region in the URL (e.g., /ar/ for Spanish Argentina). This is useful if you’ve added multiple regional variants of the same language and need each to have its own distinct URL.
- Custom lets you define your own URL prefix, which gives you full control if you’d prefer something more specific to your brand or audience.
Once you’ve made your selections, click Add Language to store your choices.
With that done, Universally will start translating your entire site right away, including every WPForms form you have published.
To check the results of the translation, you can visit your website with the language prefix in the URL. For example, yourwebsite.com/es/ for Spanish or yourwebsitecom/fr/ for French.
Universally also automatically adds a language switcher button to the bottom-right corner of your website. Simply click it, select the new language. and Universally will translate the page.
That’s all it takes. Your forms, and your entire website, will now appear in the translated language whenever a visitor switches to it on your site.
FAQs – How to Use AI Translation With WPForms
Translating forms with AI is a popular topic of interest among our readers. Here are answers to some common questions about it:
How to translate WPForms with Universally?
To translate WPForms with Universally, install the Universally plugin on your WordPress site and connect it to your Universally account. Then, click the ‘Add Languages’ button in your Universally dashboard and select your target languages.
Universally will automatically translate your entire site, including every WPForms form you have published, with no additional configuration needed.
Can you use AI to translate?
Yes, AI can be used for translation. Tools like WPForms come equipped with Generative AI technology to translate entire forms into different languages easily.
You can also use a dedicated translation plugin like Universally, which uses AI to automatically translate your entire WordPress site into any of 110+ languages.
How to translate a form in WordPress?
To translate a form in WordPress, use a dedicated translation plugin like Universally.
After signing up for a Universally account and installing the plugin on your WordPress site, simply select the languages you want your site translated into.
Universally automatically translates any forms you’ve created, along with your entire website. There’s no need to configure each form individually.
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