Which language plugin is future-proof if or when WP is being more multilanguage?

  • Resolved moonstruck

    (@moonstruck)


    8 years, 6 months ago

    Hi. I have been googling for a week about different ways to make a simple site translated into one more language. (And I guess the solution for today is Polylang.) But I am still puzzled…
    …my main concern is that I don′t want to choose a path (a plugin) that leads to a dead end in just a couple of years… I have read there are work being done to make WP more multilingual “compatible” in the future (in how many years?). But what does that mean, will WPML and Polylang still work fine in a couple of years if WP “core” is changed? Will they be totally unnecessary? Will there have to be other new plugins that work in a another way? What is a future-safe choise, WPML or Polylang (or Bogo)?

    Are there big differenses between them when it comes to this hopefull development of WP in the future? As far as I can understand, WPML uses an “older technique” that make translated content not so easy to remove or export to some other plugin, or export one language to a separate domain in the future if one would like to do that? Or just to stop using WPML if one decides to do so (but keep all the hard worked translated post and pages)?
    Polylang sounds more modern and doesn′t change so much in the WP backend/DB (right?), does that make Polylang a better choise for the future, more ready to perhaps export the different language data/content in the future, maybe to import it to an even more modern language plugin in five years or so??
    From what I have read Bogo seems to be the best future-ready plugin, and I would really like to use it, but it is not complete, and it does′t seem to happen…?? (categories, menus, tags etc) so I don′t dare to choose it, even thou I would love too, because of how good it is coded.

    To me all plugins seem to raise more problem than solutions if I only have a simple page with a blog that I want to translate into english (and not have to deal with a lot of PHP-hacks that constantly keep evolving).
    If I just want it to work without compatibility (PHP) problems today, or in five years(!) it seems better/safer to just have two separate domains, one in each language… and wait for what will happen with the WP core in the future… …or, perhaps choose Polylang?

    It is hard to know what the future will bring…. Do you know more about WP and languages in the future?

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  • It’s difficult to future-proof anything really, but I understand your concerns as multilingual plugins can tamper with your database in a way that almost makes it impossible to remove completely in the future.

    Besides the popular Polylang & qTranslate X plugins, Bogo does claim to do this better than others so they at least have this concern in mind.

    It’s certainly worth checking out.

    Hope this helps.

    Thread Starter moonstruck

    (@moonstruck)

    If anyone wants to now I will use Polylang and hope the plugin has a long and great future…

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