Prisna GWT – Google Website Translator

Excellent! The support team kindly provided me with instructions to make my customization. Thank you very much

I bought the Pro version thinking it could have been more usefull but it turned out to be a massive waste of time, money, and energy.

Here are just a few of the many issues I experienced:

• You constantly need to buy translation credits – the plugin connects to DeepL or Google Translate via API, but the translations are not stored if not manually saved. Once the quota runs out, the plugin stops translating.
• The Replace feature is extremely limited – if you try to add too many terms to be automatically replaced across the site, your website slows down dramatically or crashes.
• On-site editing is painfully slow – you have to translate sentence by sentence directly from the frontend, and there’s no global string replacement unless the exact same HTML tag is used. For example, if a product name is wrapped in <p> and you translate it, it won’t apply if the same name appears later in <h1>. You’ll have to translate it again manually.
• No support for AJAX-based filters – if users filter products on a shop or category page, the language switches back to English until the page is manually refreshed. Completely breaks the multilingual experience.
• Pages must be visited before being translated – the plugin needs to cache every single page before you can start translating it. This is incredibly time-consuming and inefficient for large shops.
• Translated URLs are not reusable or modular – you have to manually translate each URL segment every time. Woocommerce product categories has to be translated in full for every subcategory. You can’t save the base and reuse it for similar pages. Same story for breadcrumbs.
• Sometimes refreshing the page breaks the layout – we experienced several cases where translated pages failed to render properly after refreshing.
• Support is arrogant and dismissive – they blamed my site setup (a standard WooCommerce with AJAX filtering), and when I reported continued problems, they refused a refund despite their own policy stating refunds would be issued if problems couldn’t be resolved.

In short: this plugin might look flexible on paper, but it’s full of limitations and does not scale well for real-world ecommerce use. If you run a WooCommerce store or care about performance and translation accuracy, stay away.

The google translation plugin works perfectly.

A minor disadvantage is that you can only use the google translation mechanism but it’s rather an advantage because, as long as you have a google cloud credit you use it directly, then you switch to the prisna interface onto the google translation service which is free (!).

Last but not less, the support team is incredibly fast and efficient. I’ve never seen such quality in my long career as a computer scientist.

Great plugin. It allows to offer a complete list and icons for specifics languages all together.

<p>It works</p>

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