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Polylang

By Frédéric Demarle

Description

Características

Polylang allows you to create a bilingual or multilingual WordPress site. You write posts, pages and create categories and post tags as usual, and then define the language for each of them. The translation of a post, whether it is in the default language or not, is optional.

  • You can use as many languages as you want. RTL language scripts are supported. WordPress languages packs are automatically downloaded and updated.
  • You can translate posts, pages, media, categories, post tags, menus, widgets…
  • Custom post types, custom taxonomies, sticky posts and post formats, RSS feeds and all default WordPress widgets are supported.
  • The language is either set by the content or by the language code in url, or you can use one different subdomain or domain per language
  • Categories, post tags as well as some other metas are automatically copied when adding a new post or page translation
  • A customizable language switcher is provided as a widget or in the nav menu

The author does not provide support on the wordpress.org forum. Support and extra features are available to Polylang Pro users.

If you wish to migrate from WPML, you can use the plugin WPML to Polylang

If you wish to use a professional or automatic translation service, you can install Lingotek Translation, as an addon of Polylang. Lingotek offers a complete translation management system which provides services such as translation memory or semi-automated translation processes (e.g. machine translation > human translation > legal review).

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.

Do you like Polylang?

Don’t hesitate to give your feedback.

Screenshots

  • The Polylang languages admin panel
  • The Strings translations admin panel
  • Multilingual media library
  • The Edit Post screen with the Languages metabox

Installation

  1. Make sure you are using WordPress 4.0 or later and that your server is running PHP 5.2.4 or later (same requirement as WordPress itself)
  2. If you tried other multilingual plugins, deactivate them before activating Polylang, otherwise, you may get unexpected results!
  3. Install and activate the plugin as usual from the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
  4. Go to the languages settings page and create the languages you need
  5. Add the ‘language switcher’ widget to let your visitors switch the language.
  6. Take care that your theme must come with the corresponding .mo files (Polylang automatically downloads them when they are available for themes and plugins in this repository). If your theme is not internationalized yet, please refer to the Theme Handbook or ask the theme author to internationalize it.

FAQ

Installation Instructions
  1. Make sure you are using WordPress 4.0 or later and that your server is running PHP 5.2.4 or later (same requirement as WordPress itself)
  2. If you tried other multilingual plugins, deactivate them before activating Polylang, otherwise, you may get unexpected results!
  3. Install and activate the plugin as usual from the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
  4. Go to the languages settings page and create the languages you need
  5. Add the ‘language switcher’ widget to let your visitors switch the language.
  6. Take care that your theme must come with the corresponding .mo files (Polylang automatically downloads them when they are available for themes and plugins in this repository). If your theme is not internationalized yet, please refer to the Theme Handbook or ask the theme author to internationalize it.
Where to find help ?
Is Polylang compatible with WooCommerce?
  • You need a separate addon to make Polylang and WooCommerce work together. A Premium addon is available.
Do you need translation services?
  • If you want to use professional or automatic translation services, install and activate the Lingotek Translation plugin.

Reviews

Uncompatiblity with every theme and plugin… Never use it!

Really weak plugin with full of bugs and no support.
Used it once, I had several problem, tried to use it twice, more problem…
Polylang just makes your site a huge mess, bans every plugin from working, strange errors apperar.
No support, only if you buy the Pro version!
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Simple and the best free Multilingual Plugin of all times

Easy to use and manage, what makes it greater than Wmpl is that the plugin is 100% free and you can easily transform your website to a multilingual one in just a few clicks. thank you for the great work. I haven’t found any bug yet so far so good.

Ottimo plugin

The plugin works perfectly, but on my client’s site it does not show me the option for the language selector to be included in the menu. How can I fix this problem?

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Contributors & Developers

“Polylang” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

“Polylang” has been translated into these 21 locales: French, Japanese, German, Finnish, Croatian, Catalan, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Esperanto, Spanish, Italian, Swedish, Dutch, Albanian, Slovak, Romanian, Galician, English (UK), English (Canada), Belarusian, Occitan. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.

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Changelog

2.1.5 (2017-05-31)

  • Add compatibility with new media widgets introduced in WP 4.8
  • Removing the language information in URL for the default language is now default
  • Update plugin updater class to 1.6.12
  • Pro: fix PHP notices when duplicating the content
  • Fix: test existence of twentyseventeen_panel_count instead of relying only on the active template
  • Fix: set current property to false when removing the current-menu-item class #134 props @mowar
  • Fix PHP notice when editing a term without language
  • Fix possible PHP notice when deleting a category
  • Fix fatal error with Gantry 5

2.1.4 (2017-05-16)

  • Pro: fix user not logged in on secondary domain when previewing changes
  • Pro: fix archive links without language code in ACF link field (ACF 5.4.0+)
  • Fix redirection from www subdomain to wrong language domain.
  • Fix: selecting “Front page displays latest posts” in the customizer not cleaning the languages cache
  • Fix accessibility of the admin language switcher

2.1.3 (2017-04-11)

  • Pro: Fix translated slug of ‘page’ if it is translated to an empty string
  • Update plugin updater class to 1.6.11
  • Strings registered with a wpml-config.xml file or WPML functions are now multiline by default
  • Translate the site title in emails sent to the user
  • Fix sanitize_user for specific locales
  • Fix deprecation notice in Yoast SEO integration
  • Fix: Clean term cache after the language has been set in mass #119

2.1.2 (2017-03-09)

  • Pro: Add filter ‘pll_xdata_nonce_life’
  • Pro: Fix translation of WooCommerce product attribute slug
  • Pro: Fix product synchronization in WooCommerce 2.7
  • Pro: Fix error message when bulk trashing synchronized posts
  • Add option to discard item spacing in the output of pll_the_languages() ( Props Ceslav Przywara ) #93 #95
  • Add as, dzo, kab, km, ml_IN, nl_BE, pa_IN, rhg, sah, ta_IN, tah, te, tt_RU to the predefined list of languages
  • Update plugin updater class to 1.6.10
  • Fix: Remove the dependency to is_ssl() to detect the language in the url ( language set from the directory name )
  • Fix issue with secondary level domains
  • Fix strings not translated in emails
  • Fix incorrect usage of add_action() ( Props Peter J. Herrel ) #103
  • Fix wrong redirect in customizer in WP 4.7

2.1.1 (2017-02-15)

  • Pro: Add filter ‘pll_enable_duplicate_media’ for a fine control of automatic media duplication
  • Add filter ‘pll_links_model’ for the links model class name
  • Trim any starting ^ from modified rewrite rules
  • Pro: Fix wrong count of plugins to udpate
  • Fix slashed strings translations not saved #94

2.1 (2017-01-25)

  • Minimum WordPress version is now 4.4
  • Pro: Add support for synchronized posts (same post in multiple languages)
  • Pro: Add support for custom post type UI and the Divi Builder
  • Improve support of Yoast SEO (no category base and post type archive breadcrumb title)
  • Move Languages menu at top level instead of submenu of the WordPress settings
  • Copy the original post date when creating a translation and when the date is synchronized (Props Jory Hogeveen) #32
  • Remove hreflang attributes on paged pages and paged posts
  • Add label to widget language dropdown for better accessibility (Props Lawrence Francell) #53 #56
  • Remove constants POLYLANG_URL and PLL_LOCAL_URL
  • wp_get_sidebars_widgets() and is_active_sidebar() are now filtered according to widgets languages #54
  • Add functions pll_esc_html__(), pll_esc_html_e(), pll_esc_attr__() and pll_esc_attr_e() to the API (Props jegbagus) #83
  • Pro: Fix conflict between WooCommerce shop on front and translated shop base slug
  • Pro: Fix $wp_rewrite search base and author_base not translated #68
  • Pro: Fix page preview does not log in the user when using sudomains
  • Fix: avoid setting the language cookie on 404 pages
  • Fix: rewrite rules order modified for custom post types archives
  • Fix: conflict with WP All Import causing our filters to fail in “Add Media” modal when editing a post
  • Fix: auto add pages not working for nav menus assigned to several locations
  • Fix: Jetpack infinite scroll for multiple domains #58 #74
  • Fix: serialize error in Strings translations when balanceTags option is active #63
  • Fix: static front page preview when redirected from the languages page #49
  • Fix: Auto add pages not working for nav menus assigned to several locations
  • Fix: Conflict with Woocommerce Show Single Variation
  • Fix: Parent page not synchronized in Quick edit (introduced in 2.0.8)
  • Fix: WPML API wpml_element_has_translations and wpml_post_language_details
  • Fix: unattached media translations not in language switcher
  • Fix: Conflict with WP Residence advanced search

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