Translate Your WordPress Site to Kurdish (Kurdî)
Everything you need to publish your WordPress site in Kurdish: market size, engine support, setup steps and SEO specifics.
Why translate your website to Kurdish?
Kurdish is spoken by roughly 30M people across markets like Iraq. A Kurdish version of your site opens that audience to your content and products, and because far less web content exists in most languages than in English, translated pages often rank faster for the same topics.
Key markets for Kurdish
Which translation engine should you use for Kurdish?
Use Google Cloud Translation: Kurdish is among the 130+ languages it covers, while DeepL's ~35-language catalog does not include it. With your own key you pay about $20 per million characters, with the first 500K characters free each month.
Google Translate
Supported
~$20 per 1M characters via Cloud Translation API. First 500K characters each month are free — enough to translate roughly 80,000 words to Kurdish at no cost.
DeepL
Not supported — use Google for this language
DeepL covers ~35 languages; this one is outside its catalog, so Transxlate routes it to Google seamlessly.
How to translate WordPress to Kurdish — 4 steps
- 1
Install Transxlate
Download the plugin from your transxlate.com account (free plan available) and activate it — the setup wizard opens automatically.
- 2
Add Kurdish as a target language
Pick your default language and select Kurdish in the wizard. The language URL is created instantly.
- 3
Connect your API key
Paste a Google Cloud Translation or DeepL key and switch on automatic translation. You pay the provider directly at wholesale rates.
- 4
Refine visually
Open any translated page with ?trx-edit=1 and click any sentence to perfect it. Human edits permanently override the machine.
What about Kurdish SEO?
Your Kurdish pages live on real, indexable URLs (/ku/...), each with the correct lang attribute. With the Pro SEO pack, hreflang alternates connect every language version so Google shows Kurdish speakers the Kurdish page. Translated titles and descriptions are generated from your translated content automatically.
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="ku" href="https://example.com/ku/" /> <link rel="alternate" hreflang="x-default" href="https://example.com/" />
Full reference: see the hreflang="ku" page for sitemap syntax and common mistakes. hreflang ku reference →
Frequently asked questions
How do I translate my WordPress site to Kurdish?
Install the Transxlate plugin, choose Kurdish as a target language in the setup wizard, connect your own Google or DeepL API key and enable automatic translation. The whole site is served at /ku/ within minutes, and you can refine any sentence visually.
How much does it cost to translate a website to Kurdish?
With your own API key you pay wholesale rates: roughly $1.20 for a 10,000-word site or $6.00 for 50,000 words via Google Cloud Translation — and the first 500K characters each month are free. There is no per-word markup.
Is machine translation good enough for Kurdish?
Google's neural translation handles Kurdish well for informational and product content. As with any language, give legal pages and key marketing copy a quick human review in the visual editor.
Does Kurdish need any special technical setup?
No. Kurdish uses the Latin script and works out of the box: Transxlate sets the lang attribute, creates the /ku/ URL prefix and emits hreflang automatically (Pro).
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Publish your site in Kurdish today
Free plan available — translate into Kurdish with your own API key in under five minutes.