Translate Everything Automatically with PTC – Pay Once per Page, Edit Translations Free
WPML’s Translate Everything Automatically mode translates your entire site for you in the background, using PTC (Private Translation Cloud), WPML’s own AI translation engine. You publish in one language; readers see your site in theirs.
Together with PTC, this mode also changes how you pay. You pay once for each page in each language. After that, every edit to the translation is free, until the content grows past what you originally paid for. Rework copy, run A/B tests, tighten product descriptions – none of it adds to the bill.
If you’ve been translating your site by hand, switching doesn’t mean losing the voice you’ve built. PTC reads the translations you’ve already produced and picks up your vocabulary, formality, and the way you handle product names and headlines, then applies them to new content automatically. It also keeps learning as you edit afterwards: when the same kind of correction starts to repeat across pages, PTC offers to apply it everywhere – see How PTC learns your brand voice and translates like you do.
Translate Everything Automatically Runs Only on PTC
WPML trusts PTC to translate an entire site without supervision. PTC reads each page as a whole, applies the corrections you’ve already made to everything that follows, and produces publish-ready translations 99.5% of the time (measured in the PTC vs DeepL study). The legacy engines (DeepL, Google, Microsoft) translate one segment at a time without page-level context and don’t learn from your edits – manageable when a person reviews every translation, but not the level of trust whole-site, hands-off translation needs.
Your engine has to be PTC before you can enable Translate Everything Automatically. The Setup Wizard handles this; from the Translations Dashboard, you’ll see a Switch to PTC button on a legacy engine and a Set up Translate Everything button on PTC.
Sites already running Translate Everything Automatically on a legacy engine keep working – the rule applies only to enabling Translate Everything Automatically, not to existing setups.
Pricing – Pay Once per Page, Edit Translations for Free
When Translate Everything Automatically is on, you pay once for each page in each target language. Every edit to that translation after the first send is free, until the content grows past what you originally paid for.
Other paths bill per updated word. Anything you send for translation manually (Translate Some, on any engine) is per-updated-word, and Overwrite existing on a manual send bills the whole page. Sites already running Translate Everything Automatically on a legacy engine keep working but are also billed per word – switching to PTC at WPML > Settings > AI Translation moves you onto the free-edits pair. Full breakdown on How AI translation pricing works.
What It Covers
- Any source language to any target. Translate Everything Automatically translates between every language pair on your site, not just from your default.
- Most visible content first. WPML translates the homepage, menu pages, and pages your homepage links to before working outward to the rest of the site.
- New content as you publish. WPML translates new posts, pages, and products as you publish them – no manual round needed. See Translating content for the specifics on each content type.
How to Turn Translate Everything Automatically on (or Off)
In your WordPress admin, go to WPML > Translations > Dashboard. The Translate Everything Automatically card at the top of the page carries the control.
When it’s off and PTC is your active engine, the card shows a Set up Translate Everything button. Clicking it opens a setup screen that shows the scope and the cost, lets you choose how WPML publishes the translations, and starts translating only when you confirm.
If your engine is DeepL, Google, or Microsoft, the card shows a Switch to PTC button instead – Translate Everything Automatically requires PTC to enable.
When it’s on, open the three-dot menu on the card and pick Turn off Translate Everything. New content stops getting picked up; everything already translated stays translated. The same three-dot menu has Adjust content limits for capping how much WPML translates without asking.