You can receive a quote for translating your website, to any language, right from within WordPress. Make sure that WPML is installed and follow the steps here.
In your WordPress Admin Dashboard, you’ll find a box that says Multilanguage | WPML NNN. Inside that box, there’s a button labeled Get Quote. Click on it.
Get Quote button
The quote wizard will launch. In the first step, you choose the translation languages.
Quote Wizard - Language Selection Page
You will see the languages in your site. If you want to translate to other languages, first add them from WPML->Languages.
Next, choose which content types to translate.
Quote Wizard - Content Types Page
By default WordPress includes posts and pages. If you’re using custom types, they would appear here too. In this example, you see also ‘Projects’ and ‘Testimonials’, which are custom types used in ICanLocalize.com.
The last column in this table shows the word count of all the content in each type. This count includes the title, body and any custom fields that you’ve selected for translation. You can choose which custom fields to translate in WPML->Translation Management->Multilingual Content Setup.
The last step of the wizard shows you a summary of what you’ve selected.
Quote Wizard - Summary Page
When you click on Produce Quote, you’ll see the cost of translation and the schedule.
Your Quote
You may remember that ICanLocalize is a self-service system and that different translators will apply for your site. When translators apply, they introduce themselves and give you their per-word rate.
So, where is the cost column coming from in the quote?
We do quite a lot of work on WordPress sites, so we can calculate the average rate per language pair. The cost per word that you see in your quote is the average rate of the recent jobs in each language pair. You can accept higher or lower bids than that value, but it’s the price range that you should expect.
Have questions? Feel free to contact us.