Description
With Polylang fully integrated to WordPress and using only its built-in core features (taxonomies), keep steady performances on your site and create a multilingual site featuring from just one extra language to 10 or more depending on your needs. There is no limit in the number of languages added and WordPress’ language packs are automatically downloaded when ready.
Features
Depending on the type of site you have built or are planning to build, a combination of plugins from the list below might be of interest.
All plugins include a wizard allowing to setup them in just a few clicks.
Polylang
Polylang and Polylang Pro share the same core providing features such as:
- Translating posts, pages, media, categories, post tags, custom post types and taxonomies, RSS feeds; RTL scripts are supported.
- The language is either set by the language code in URL, or you can use a different sub-domain or domain per language.
- Automatic copy of categories, post tags and other metas when creating a new post or page translation.
- Translating classic menus and classic widgets. Also accessible with Site Editor Classic Features in block themes.
- Customizable language switcher available as a classic widget or a classic navigation menu item.
- Compatibility with Yoast SEO.
Polylang Pro
Helps optimizing the time spent translating your site with some very useful extra features such as:
- Better integration in the new Block Editor.
- Language switcher available as a block.
- Language options available in the widget block editor.
- Template parts translatable in the site editor (FSE).
- Duplicate and/or synchronize content across post translations.
- Improved compatibility with other plugins such as ACF Pro.
- Share the same URL slug for posts or terms across languages.
- Translate URL slugs for categories, author bases, custom post types and more…
- Machine translation with DeepL.
- Export and import of content in XLIFF format for outsourced professional translation.
- Access to a Premium Support for personalized assistance.
Polylang for WooCommerce
Add-on for the compatibility with WooCommerce which provides features such as:
- Translating WooCommerce pages (shop, check-out, cart, my account), product categories and global attribute terms directly in the WooCommerce interface.
- Translating WooCommerce e-mails and sending them to customers in their language.
- Products metadata synchronization.
- Compatibility with the native WooCommerce CSV import & export tool.
- Compatibility with popular plugins such as WooCommerce Subscriptions, Product Bundles, WooCommerce Bookings, Shipment Tracking and more.
- Ability to use the WooCommerce REST API (available with Polylang Pro).
- Access to a Premium Support for personalized assistance.
Neither of them will allow to do automated translation.
Our other free plugins
- WPML to Polylang allows migrating from WPML to Polylang.
- DynaMo speeds up the translation of WordPress for all non-English sites.
- Site Editor Classic Features allows to use classic widgets (including the Polylang language switcher) and menus in the site editor (FSE).
Credits
Thanks a lot to all translators who help translating Polylang.
Thanks a lot to Alex Lopez for the design of the logo.
Most of the flags included with Polylang are coming from famfamfam and are public domain.
Wherever third party code has been used, credit has been given in the code’s comments.
Screenshots
The Polylang languages admin panel 
The Strings translations admin panel 
Multilingual media library 
The Edit Post screen with the Languages metabox
Installation
- Make sure you are using WordPress 6.2 or later and that your server is running PHP 7.0 or later (same requirement as WordPress itself).
- If you tried other multilingual plugins, deactivate them before activating Polylang, otherwise, you may get unexpected results!
- Install and activate the plugin as usual from the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
- The setup wizard is automatically launched to help you get started more easily with Polylang by configuring the main features.
FAQ
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Where to find help ?
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- First time users should read Polylang – Getting started, which explains the basics and includes a lot of screenshots.
- Read the documentation. It includes a FAQ and the documentation for developers.
- Search the community support forum. You will probably find your answers here.
- Read the sticky posts in the community support forum.
- If you still have a problem, open a new thread in the community support forum.
- Polylang Pro and Polylang for WooCommerce users have access to our premium support through helpdesk.
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Is Polylang compatible with WooCommerce?
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- You need Polylang for WooCommerce, premium addon described above, which will make both plugins work together.
Reviews
mohammadsam2013
September 25, 2024
the best plugin to have two or more languages on a website on wordpress
CHR Designer
September 24, 2024
Plugin cumpri com tudo que promete, simples de ser instalado e tudo que tiver duvida o forum resolve os problemas.
Vale muito a pena a vers?o free dele da para desenvolver muito projeto com ele.
yigaler
September 14, 2024
Polylang plugin is easy to operate, and works fine with minimum configurations.It works well with Elementor builder, and other plugins, like Strong Testimonials.
Highly recommended!
JaneBennitt
September 10, 2024
Worst mistake I ever made. Uninstalling is impossible, can’t get it out of the application. There’s no documentation and their Support in this respect doesn’t exist.
stefwilliams
September 5, 2024
On the whole, Polylang is really solid and in my opinion performs better than WPML, but it’s slightly misleading.
Their blurb for Polylang Free suggests that Widgets are translateable in the free version, but in fact, it’s only legacy widgets (not block widgets) that can be translated. To translate the rest, you need Pro.
As everything is moving to blocks these days, this means that in fact most widgets are NOT translateable in the free version.
Contributors & Developers
“Polylang” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
“Polylang” has been translated into 52 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.
Translate “Polylang” into your language.
Interested in development?
Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.
Changelog
3.6.4 (2024-07-29)
- Pro: Fix infinite loop with WP 6.6 when the locale fallbacks include the main locale of a language
- Pro: Prevent saving the main locale among the locale fallbacks of a language
- Pro: Hide the characters consumption graph when the DeepL cost control is deactivated
- Add Yoast SEO social title and social description to the strings translations
- Fix incorrect page on front and page for posts translations when the option is saved with admin language filter active
3.6.3 (2024-06-18)
- Pro: Fix locale fallback for translations loaded just in time (requires WP 6.6)
- Allow to pass an array as context to icl_register_string() #1497
- Fix admin bar search menu in WP 6.6 #1496
- Fix a regression in the usage of the filter pll_flag #1489
3.6.2 (2024-06-03)
- Pro: Fix XLIFF files not correctly imported when exported from older version than 3.6
- Pro: Fix translated categories not assigned to translated post when using machine translation
- Pro: Fix ‘lang’ param not applied for secondary queries during a REST request
- Pro: Fix newlines for content edited in classic editor and translated with DeepL
- Pro: Fix a conflict with the Stream plugin on multisite
3.6.1 (2024-04-09)
- Pro: Fix ACF fields not shown after a post was translated with DeepL
- Remove rewrite when registering the language taxonomy #1457
- Fix search block not filtered when displayed as button only #1459
- Fix current language not kept when using switch_to_blog() in multisite #1458
3.6 (2024-03-18)
- Requires WP 6.2 as minimum version
- Add compatibility with WP 6.5
- Pro: Add DeepL machine translation for posts
- Pro: Add export and import in XLIFF 2.0/2.1 formats
- Pro: Improve translator comments in exported PO files
- Pro: Allow to export JSON encoded post and term metas in XLIFF files
- Pro: Allow to export block sub-attributes in XLIFF files
- Pro: Add footer notes block to XLIFF files
- Pro: Single files are now exported directly instead of inside a zip
- Pro: Reworked the language switcher navigation block
- Pro: Fix language switcher navigation block justification not aligned with core settings in overlay menu (requires WP 6.5)
- Pro: Fix a race condition which could lead to display a notice to the wrong user
- Pro: Fix a conflict with ACF when rewrite rules are flushed with WP-CLI on a multisite
- Pro: Fix import of several metas with same sources but different translations
- Add filter
pll_cookie_argsto filter the Polylang cookie arguments #1406 - Fix wrong translated post types and taxononies after a
switch_to_blog()#1415 - Fix a minor performance issue for the page for posts #1412
- Fix a JS errors after quick edit. Props @mcguffin #1435, #1444
- Fix a possible warning in view-translations-post.php #1439
See changelog.txt for older changelog