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English to Italian Website Translation

Translating a English WordPress site into Italian: engine fit, script and direction notes, market context and the exact hreflang markup.

English sourceItaliano targetGoogle + DeepL engines for this pair~65M Italian speakers

What changes between English and Italian?

English uses the Latin script; Italian uses the Latin script. Sentence structure and length differ, which is why Transxlate translates whole rendered sentences in context and lets you adjust anything visually.

English

  • ~1.5B speakers
  • Latin script · LTR
  • Google + DeepL support

Italian

  • ~65M speakers
  • Latin script · LTR
  • Google + DeepL support · formality control

Set up English → Italian in 4 steps

  1. 1

    Install Transxlate

    Download the plugin from your transxlate.com account (free plan available) and activate it — the setup wizard opens automatically.

  2. 2

    Add Italian as a target language

    Pick your default language and select Italian in the wizard. The language URL is created instantly.

  3. 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. 4

    Refine visually

    Open any translated page with ?trx-edit=1 and click any sentence to perfect it. Human edits permanently override the machine.

How should hreflang look for English and Italian versions?

Each page declares alternates for both languages plus x-default, and every version must link back to all others (reciprocity). With Transxlate Pro this cluster is emitted automatically on every page.

<link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="https://example.com/" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="it" href="https://example.com/it/" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="x-default" href="https://example.com/" />

Frequently asked questions

How do I translate a English website to Italian?

On WordPress: install Transxlate, set English as your default language, add Italian as a target, and connect a Google or DeepL API key. Pages are served at /it/ automatically, and any sentence can be refined in the visual editor.

Which engine is best for English to Italian?

Both Google and DeepL support this pair. DeepL is generally preferred for its fluency on Italian; Google is slightly cheaper and equally reliable. You can switch engines at any time without losing stored translations.

How much does English to Italian website translation cost?

At wholesale API rates, a 50,000-word site costs roughly $6.00 to machine-translate into Italian — once, because results are cached in your database. Professional human translation of the same site would run thousands of dollars.

Will the layout survive going from English to Italian?

Yes — both languages are left-to-right, so no direction change is involved. Expect some text-length variation; the visual editor makes spot-fixing tight buttons trivial.

Start translating English to Italian

Five-minute setup, wholesale API pricing, translations stored in your own database.