Translate your entire Joomla site automatically.
See AI Translate in action: From article creation to fully translated multilingual site in minutes.
Write once.
Translate everywhere.
AI Translate hooks into Joomla's content workflow. The moment you save an article in your source language, it automatically creates translated versions in all target languages – complete with categories, menu items, and language associations. No manual steps. No copy-paste. No broken links.
This diagram illustrates the complete AI Translate workflow, divided into two phases.
Phase 1 – Setup (one-time configuration):
Three steps are shown side by side:
1. Define source and target languages.
2. Set up the menu structure for each language.
3. Add an API key for the translation service, for example OpenAI.
Phase 2 – Translation Process (automated, triggered on every content save):
The flow begins when content is saved or assigned to the source language. This can be a category, a menu item, or an article within a category that is assigned to the source language.
Two parallel actions occur: Mock items are created in all target languages, and items are added to the translation queue.
A scheduled task, called the Joomtastic AI Translation Task, runs once per minute by default. It checks whether items exist in the translation queue.
If items are found, the task sends the content to external AI services such as OpenAI and retrieves the translated text.
The translated content is then saved back into the previously created mock items in Joomla.
Finally, the translated items are either published or left unpublished, matching the publication status of the original source item.
