Title: Click to Translate &#8211; bilingual dictionary plugin for WordPress
Author: Woodpecker Learning
Published: <strong>30 Unbir 2018</strong>
Last modified: 25 Furar 2025

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# Click to Translate – bilingual dictionary plugin for WordPress

 By [Woodpecker Learning](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gijsslijpen/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/woodpecker-click-to-translate.2.3.zip)

 * [Details](https://kab.wordpress.org/plugins/woodpecker-click-to-translate/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://kab.wordpress.org/plugins/woodpecker-click-to-translate/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://kab.wordpress.org/plugins/woodpecker-click-to-translate/#installation)
 * [Development](https://kab.wordpress.org/plugins/woodpecker-click-to-translate/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/woodpecker-click-to-translate/)

## Description

This plugin creates a button on your website which enables the reader to turn on
a bilingual dictionary. Whenever the reader clicks on a word they will see instant
translations to their language displayed neatly in a pop-up box on top of your content.

There are many learners of English who just need help with the occasional word and
don’t want to translate the whole text to their language – which often results in
numerous errors. This is why mouseover dictionary translation extensions have been
so popular on the Chrome Browser. However, these great apps are often limited to
support only Chrome and only its desktop version. Extensions are not available on
mobile devices, yet most content is now consumed on mobile devices. This plugin 
will increase your engagement with non-native speakers on all browsers on all devices.

After installation you will have 1,000 calls per month to our API for free. The 
premium version increases this to 25,000 calls per month.

### Features

 * The only extension compatible with all browser types. No matter if they’re on
   mobile or on desktop, definitions are now instantly available to everyone, everywhere.
 * Fully optimised for mobile and desktop. On a desktop the button reads “click 
   to translate” and on a mobile device it says “touch to translate” but the functionality
   is the same. The user can scroll down within the popup box for additional detail
   on each word and to see sample sentences.
 * Easy to install and easy to use. Just a few clicks and creating a user account
   for the API key will see this plugin operating on your website.
 * Our dictionaries are vast. We have created bilingual dictionaries by combining
   Wiktionary, Wikipedia and other creative commons sources to create one of the
   most up to date and comprehensive databases in the world. Depending on the language,
   our dictionaries have between 300,000 and 700,000 headwords and many headwords
   have multiple definitions.

### Available languages

For those with an English language site, we support translations to these languages:
*
Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), * French, * German, * Portuguese, * Japanese,*
Spanish, * Vietnamese, * and Russian.

For those with a Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), French, Spanish, Vietnamese
language site, we support translations to English at this stage.

We also have a monolingual English dictionary and are adding many more languages
to the service as we go.

## Screenshots

[⌊The button that appears on a blog page.⌉⌊The button that appears on a blog page
.⌉[

The button that appears on a blog page.

[⌊The pop-up button with the translation.⌉⌊The pop-up button with the translation
.⌉[

The pop-up button with the translation.

[⌊The place to fill in your access key created on the access tokens page.⌉⌊The place
to fill in your access key created on the access tokens page.⌉[

The place to fill in your access key created on [the access tokens page](https://translate.woodpeckerlearning.com/dashboard/accessToken,).

## Installation

 1. Go to [https://translate.woodpeckerlearning.com](https://translate.woodpeckerlearning.com),
 2. [Create an account](https://translate.woodpeckerlearning.com/signup) and login 
    to the console,
 3. Create an access token under [Access Tokens](https://translate.woodpeckerlearning.com/dashboard/accessToken)
    in the console,
 4. Under [Security](https://translate.woodpeckerlearning.com/dashboard/security) in
    the console fill in the domain you want to use the API on.
 5. Go back to WordPress,
 6. Copy the Access Token you have created in step 3 into the field that says ‘access
    token’.
 7. Done.

## FAQ

[FAQ for website owners](https://translate.woodpeckerlearning.com/products#faq)

[FAQ for website readers](https://www.woodpeckerlearning.com/blog/en/click-to-translate/)

## Reviews

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### 󠀁[Really helpful for our readers!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/really-helpful-for-our-readers-2/)󠁿

 [gwilymjames](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gwilymjames/) 18 Furar 2019

There is currently nothing like this out there and has proved hugely useful for 
our language teaching blog. Set-up was simple and allows our readers to click on
any Chinese words and get instant translations and pinyin without having to install
any extensions that slow down the browser. Is also saves us time when writing articles
since we don’t have to manually enter all the translations and phonetics. Highly
recommended for any language learning sites, or sites with an international audience.

 [ Read all 1 review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/woodpecker-click-to-translate/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Click to Translate – bilingual dictionary plugin for WordPress” is open source 
software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Woodpecker Learning ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gijsslijpen/)
 *   [ Team Woodpecker Learning ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/woodpeckerlearning/)
 *   [ wltravis ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/wltravis/)

[Translate “Click to Translate – bilingual dictionary plugin for WordPress” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/woodpecker-click-to-translate)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/woodpecker-click-to-translate/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/woodpecker-click-to-translate/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/woodpecker-click-to-translate/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/woodpecker-click-to-translate/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

v 2.3
 (25 Feb 2025) Test up to WordPress 6.7.2 (25 Feb 2025) Update JavaScript 
and CSS version to v2.3

v 2.1.1
 (4 Oct 2022) Test up to WordPress 6.0.2

v 2.1
 (10 Nov 2020) Update JavaScript and CSS version to v2.1

v 2.0
 (10 Nov 2020) Update JavaScript and CSS version to v2.0

v 1.8
 (11 Aug 2020) Update JavaScript and CSS version to v1.9 (11 Aug 2020) Fixed
language selector UI overflow issue.

v 1.7
 (23 Jun 2020) Update JavaScript and CSS version to v1.8 (23 Jun 2020) Make
language selectors stick on top of look up panel. (23 Jun 2020) Support single page
application.

v 1.6
 (02 March 2020) Update JavaScript and CSS version to v1.7

v 1.5
 (14 February 2020) Add Vietnamese. (14 February 2020) Add limiting language
pair function.

v 1.4
 (12 November 2019) Add disable function in post metabox. (12 November 2019)
Upgrade assets to v1.3.

v 1.3
 (27 September 2019) Added French and Spanish to English translation.

v 1.2
 (14 February 2019) Fixed selection when numbers is inside a line. (14 February
2019) Remove to clean up the option’s data when the plugin is uninstalling.

v 1.1

(12 February 2019) Change to load assets from plugin folder.
 (12 February 2019)
Updated look up to support multiple English words selection.

v 1.0

(1 November 2018) First submit.
 (5 November 2018) Solved issues from WordPress 
Plugin Review team. (6 December 2018) Updated the readme file. (14 January 2019)
Updated the readme file.

## Meta

 *  Version **2.3**
 *  Last updated **2 n iseggasen ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 4.2 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.7.10**
 *  PHP version ** 5.6 or higher **
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/woodpecker-click-to-translate/)
 * Tags
 * [bilingual](https://kab.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/bilingual/)[dictionary](https://kab.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/dictionary/)
   [translate](https://kab.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/translate/)[wikipedia](https://kab.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/wikipedia/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://kab.wordpress.org/plugins/woodpecker-click-to-translate/advanced/)

## Ratings

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## Contributors

 *   [ Woodpecker Learning ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gijsslijpen/)
 *   [ Team Woodpecker Learning ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/woodpeckerlearning/)
 *   [ wltravis ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/wltravis/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/woodpecker-click-to-translate/)

## Donate

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