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How to Translate an Elementor Website with WPML

Kathy Banach
Updated
February 10, 2025

WPML can translate your entire Elementor website. This includes posts, pages, menus, widgets, templates, and more.

Elementor page in English
Elementor page in Spanish

Why Translate Elementor with WPML?

WPML makes it easy to translate Elementor websites, and is the preferred choice for over 100,000+ Elementor users.

Here’s what you can expect when translating with WPML.

Comprehensive Language Support

WPML supports over 65 languages out of the box and allows you to add your own language variants.

High-Quality Automatic Translations

Use leading machine translation engines like DeepL, Google Translate, and Microsoft Azure for fast and accurate translations of your entire site or select parts.

Customization and Flexibility

Maintain consistent content and designs across languages or use different ones across languages to fit cultural preferences.

Multilingual SEO

Enhance your global reach with SEO-friendly URLs and translated meta texts for better search engine visibility.

E-commerce Ready

Enjoy full WooCommerce compatibility for building multilingual online stores with Elementor.

Proactive Compatibility

WPML works with theme and plugin partners and stays ahead of WordPress releases to guarantee compatibility and enhanced security.

Required Plugins

Elementor or Elementor Pro

WPML Multilingual CMS

WPML String Translation

How to Translate Elementor with WPML

With WPML, you can translate your entire Elementor website. This includes:

  • Pages
  • Posts
  • Templates
  • Template parts
  • Widgets
  • Global Widgets
  • WooCommerce products
  • Forms

To translate any element with WPML:   

  1. Go to WPML → Translation Management.
  2. Select the content you want to translate.
Selecting content to translate
Selecting content to translate
  1. Choose a translation method and Translate.

Add a Language Switcher to Your Website

With WPML, you can add a language switcher to different parts of your website:

  • Menus
  • Footer
  • Widget
  • Page content

To add a language switcher with WPML:

  1. Go to WPML → Languages.
  2. Scroll down to the type of language switcher you want to add and create a new one.
Adding a language switcher from the Languages page

Learn more about language switchers in WPML.

Translate Elementor Menus

With WPML, you can easily translate menus, and even create different menu layouts per language.

For more information, see our menu translation guide.

Create Different Page Designs Per Language

WPML lets you create different page designs for each language, tailoring your site to specific cultural preferences.

For example, if you’re translating into Japanese, you can create different content that aligns more closely with Japanese web design principles.

An Elementor page in English, the default language
An Elementor page with unique content and design in Japanese

See how to use different designs for different languages.

Use Different Elementor Templates Per Language (Optional)

Keeping the same content and only changing your template design to match language-specific user expectations can improve engagement.

Learn how to use the Theme Builder in Elementor Pro and WPML to create different templates for each language.

Build Multilingual WooCommerce Stores with Elementor

With WooCommerce Multilingual and Multicurrency, WPML’s free add-on for WooCommerce, you can easily translate your store into multiple languages and offer more currencies.

A translated WooCommerce page on the front-end

Translate Content from Elementor Add-on Plugins

WPML is fully compatible with many popular Elementor add-on plugins, including:

  • Essential Addons
  • JetElements
  • Ultimate Addons
  • Premium Addons

For the full list of add-ons, see our compatibility list.

Can’t Translate An Elementor Widget?

Only widgets that are compatible with WPML can be translated by default. There are two types of compatible Elementor widgets: 

  1. The default widgets of the Elementor page builder
  2. A range of custom WPML-ready Elementor Add-ons.

If you have a custom widget not included in this list, it’s likely not compatible and can’t be translated just yet. The author needs to register their widget for translation with WPML first.

You can contact the theme or plugin author directly to tell them about the issue. To help them, you can share the WPML’s guide to registering page builder widgets for translation.

You can also ask our WPML support team for help. Open a ticket in our Support forum and we’ll do our best to assist you.

Get Started with WPML

To translate Elementor with WPML, you need a WPML Multilingual CMS or Multilingual Agency account type.

See our pricing page to learn more about our plans.