You will have a language drafted by the AI, checked by a person, and ready to be indexed by search engines.
Before you start
- You need the translate permission for what you translate (Translate CMS Content for pages and posts) and a plan that includes AI translation.
- Add your brand and product names to the AI Glossary first so the AI leaves them alone (see "How do I keep brand names untranslated?").
- Save your changes: Translate with AI is disabled while there are unsaved edits ("Save your changes first").
Steps
- Open the page's translation editor (Pages list → Translate) and choose the language. For a blog post open the post and use its Languages card.
- Press Translate with AI. It translates the texts that have no translation yet and the AI texts whose original changed. A person's text is never replaced.
- Read the message: "n text(s) translated with AI", "Nothing left to translate in this language", or "n text(s) could not be translated safely and were left empty".
- Check each text. A text from the AI is labelled Machine translation. Editing it makes it a person's text.
- When you are happy with the language, press Mark AI text reviewed.
- Press Publish.
What you will see
The AI's work lands in the language's draft; nothing goes live until you publish. After you mark it reviewed the labels read Machine translation, reviewed.
Until it is reviewed, a visitor can read the language, but search engines are told to leave it out: the page is noindex, not in the language links and not in the sitemap. After review it is listed like any other translation. (A site can turn this hold-back off with Index machine translations under Site Settings → Language & Format.)
If something goes wrong
- "This is too much text for one AI run": translate fewer items at a time.
- "The daily limit for AI translation has been reached": try again tomorrow.
- "AI translation is not available on this site": the AI connection or plan is missing.
- Texts the AI could not translate safely (for example it dropped a number or a tag) are left empty and counted in the message. Translate them by hand.
- Everything waiting for review across the site is listed under AI Translation Review.