Universally Documentation

Step-by-step guides, multilingual SEO tips, and best practices to help you translate and scale your WordPress website.

Universally overview

Universally is a website translation and localization platform that helps you turn your site into a fully multilingual experience, quickly and without complex setup.

It connects to your website via a plugin or API and automatically detects and translates your content into multiple languages. Instead of duplicating pages or managing separate versions of your site, Universally handles everything dynamically, creating language-specific versions that visitors can access instantly.

Whether you’re running a business website or a content platform, Universally makes it easy to expand globally, improve user experience, and manage translations at scale, all from a single place.

How It Works

You connect your site, pick your target languages, and Universally handles the rest:

  1. It connects to your website via a WordPress plugin or API.
  2. When a visitor requests a page in another language, Universally detects all the translatable content automatically.
  3. It translates using AI: high-quality, context-aware translations across 110+ supported languages.
  4. The translated page is returned instantly and cached, so every visit after the first is immediate.
  5. When you update your content, translations stay in sync automatically.

No code changes, no manual work, no spreadsheets of strings to manage.

Key Features

  • Automatic translation: Every page on your site is translated on demand. New pages and new content are picked up automatically.
  • AI-powered quality: Context-aware AI that handles idioms, tense, and grammar naturally for each language.
  • Glossary rules: Keep brand names untranslated, or force specific translations for consistency.
  • Translated metadata: Page titles, meta descriptions, Open Graph tags, structured data and internal links are all translated automatically.
  • Language switcher: A built-in widget that lets visitors switch languages without leaving the page.
  • 110+ languages including RTL: Full support for right-to-left languages like Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, and Urdu.
  • Customization: Exclude specific pages or page sections from translation using URL patterns or CSS selectors.
  • Team collaboration: Invite teammates with role-based permissions (owner, admin, editor, member).

Want to know if Universally is a good fit? See Who Should Use Universally? and How Is Universally Different from Competitors?.

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