Is Polylang Ok for a Web magazine publishing a lot ?

  • Hi there,

    I’m running a Web magazine in English in the South of France and I publish at least one article a day.
    I want to publish a French version of the articles and would like to figure out I Polylang would nicely suit my needs because of the volume published… I have a share hosting.

    On the other hand, as our articles are indexed in GoogleNews, I use an extension of WP SEO by Yoast – a News plugin for GoogleNews publishers. Any known Polylang issue with these plugins ?

    Would someone please be so kind as to give me a couple of advices concerning Polylang’s pros and cons for a web magazine?

    Many thanks in advance

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/polylang/

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  • For your second question, I guess you can find the answer in the sticky posts.

    For the first one, my guess would be that the answer is yes, polylang can handle that. But maybe it’s just unclear to me what particularities a “web magazine publishing a lot” has. What is different to an ordinary blog, and that may refine the answers you get.

    Thread Starter YesICannes

    (@yesicannes)

    Hi Ditto Dito,

    Many thanks for your kind answer.

    To clarify what I meant with “publishing a lot”, I was thinking of the tables WPML creates in the database for every post – that allegedly slow down the site – and I was wondering if Polylang does the same…

    I’m afraid sticky posts won’t do the trick if there is an issue with WP SEO by Yoast as there seems to be right now…

    Have you a large experience with Polylang ? We publish a lot of picture; is it easy to include the media in the post translation ?

    If I have large experience with Polylang? No. But for me, software is just like with good-looking girls: I immediately recognise them when I see them.

    Regarding speed, the database part is not the biggest issue. Databases are fast. The big problem is the number of calls to a database, and this is where WPML fails. Their problem, in my limited experience, is that they need to be please everybody, any theme, any plugin, any anything. Polylang is not there.

    If I were you (which I am not, so please take the following as what it is: an opinion of someone who has no idea what you do), so if I were you I’d go the multi-language route at the cost of WP SEO Yoast. Search engines will love your double daily dose anyway, why bother with meta-tags? Put it another way, SEO is to get people onto your site. Another language does that as well.

    Getting media in a translation is potentially easy. At least if you don’t need different images per language. There is a small hack to copy the original post into a translated post. It’s a 1:1 copy, and if you just change the text, the media stays attached. You just need to translate the media’s meta information (caption, description, alt) in a second step.

    Does that all make sense? I hope so.

    Thread Starter YesICannes

    (@yesicannes)

    Thanks for your answer Ditto Ditto. If I understand you well, you believe Polylang is the best solution. I guess so.

    Regarding WP SEO by Yoast, when you belong to the GoogleNews publishers, it i highly recommended to provide News XML sitemap, which News SEO – extension of SEO by Yoast – does. Thus must I take this into account.

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