
Automating Builder Content Translation in WordPress with WPML and AI
I built this plugin to solve a very specific WordPress problem: WPML handles multilingual structure well, but translating builder content, strings, templates, and long post bodies still turns into a queue of manual work. The core idea was simple. Instead of replacing WPML, I hook into its translation job flow and process assigned jobs in the background through AI providers like OpenAI, Claude, Mistral, and Grok. The result is a translator layer that sits between WPML and the model API, then pushes completed content back into the normal WordPress workflow. What made this interesting technically was not the API call itself. It was handling real site content safely. Builder layouts and rich post content contain HTML, shortcodes, structured fields, and sometimes very large payloads. I added chunking so long content is split at paragraph or sentence boundaries, translated in smaller requests, then reassembled in order. That keeps context intact while avoiding token and timeout issues. I als
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