Leave Weglot. Take every translation with you.
The reason firms stay on Weglot is not love. It is the years of translations and edits held on Weglot's servers, deleted 3 months after you cancel. JurisLingo was built to break exactly that grip.
The three Weglot problems that do not go away
The hostage problem
Translations live only on Weglot's cloud. Cancel and your Spanish pages stop working immediately, rankings decay as Google deindexes the URLs, and the project is deleted after 3 months. Export is gated to a roughly $4,000 per year plan.
The meter problem
Word counts are cumulative, include invisible metadata, multiply per language, and never reset. Publishing content, the thing good firms do, marches you toward the next tier. Exceed the cap and new pages silently stop being translated.
The legal problem
Weglot translates generically. Practice areas get literal renderings Spanish speakers never search for, and disclaimers can lose the precision bar rules require. Legal Spanish is a specialty, and no general proxy treats it as one.
Migration Autopilot: your Weglot library, liberated
Every Spanish page Weglot serves is publicly visible on your own website. While your subscription is still active, the autopilot reads each English page and its Spanish counterpart, aligns them structurally, and writes every translation pair into your WordPress database. Your team's human edits ride along.
- 139,990 segments imported for our 1,400 page pilot firm
- Coverage verified page by page with a 95% gate before cutover
- Pages Weglot's cap skipped get machine translated in the same run
- One click cutover, then verification against snapshots again
- Zero downtime. Then you cancel Weglot, not the other way around
What you gain on the other side
After cutover, JurisLingo is not just a cheaper place to keep the same translations. New content translates automatically on publish with a legal tuned AI model and attorney glossary. Spanish slugs like /es/abogado-de-accidentes-de-auto replace English paths. hreflang, translated metadata and a Spanish sitemap are generated to Google's spec. And the Spanish ROI dashboard starts counting what it all produces: views, leads and calls from Spanish speaking prospects.
The cost math: a 200,000 word site pays Weglot $1,044 per year at the Pro tier and keeps paying it forever. Machine translating that entire site once costs a few dollars of compute. JurisLingo prices the service and the legal layer, not the words: flat monthly, currently $19.99 per month for early access firms, unlimited words, and the translations are yours from day one.
Other Weglot alternatives, honestly
WPML and TranslatePress both store translations in your database and are solid general purpose choices; neither migrates your Weglot corpus for you, and both leave legal terminology and analytics to you. Polylang suits manual multilingual publishing more than automatic translation. Linguise, ConveyThis and GTranslate repeat Weglot's structural problem: your translations live in their cloud. Full breakdown in our ranking of translation plugins for law firms.
Switching from Weglot
What is the best Weglot alternative for a law firm?
JurisLingo, and not only because we built it. It is the only alternative that automates the migration itself: your existing Weglot translations, including human edits, are imported into your own database and verified page by page before you switch. General purpose alternatives like WPML, TranslatePress and Polylang solve storage but leave you to rebuild translations and legal terminology by hand.
Can I switch away from Weglot without losing my Google rankings?
Yes, if the switch preserves URLs and content. JurisLingo serves the same /es/ URL structure with the same translations you have today, correct hreflang and canonicals, and zero downtime at cutover. Google sees continuity, not a migration. Our pilot firm's Spanish pages stayed indexed straight through.
Do I need to keep paying Weglot during the migration?
For a short overlap, yes, and it is worth it: while Weglot is still serving your Spanish pages, our importer can harvest every translation you have already paid for. Once coverage is verified you cut over and cancel. Most firms overlap for days, not months.
What if Weglot never translated some of my pages?
That is common: Weglot's cumulative word caps silently stop translating once exceeded, so growing sites accumulate untranslated pages without noticing. The autopilot detects them and machine translates them during migration, so your new Spanish site is more complete than the one it replaces.
Is there a free Weglot alternative?
Free widget translators exist, but they translate in the browser with JavaScript, which produces no indexable Spanish URLs and therefore no Spanish SEO. If the goal is Spanish speaking clients finding your firm on Google, free widgets are not an alternative; they are a different, mostly cosmetic product.
See your migration numbers before you decide
Request early access and we will run the importer against your live site, show you exactly how many segments and edits come across, and hand you the verification report. If the numbers do not convince you, you have lost nothing.
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