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Polylang

By Frédéric Demarle

Description

Features

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).

鸣谢

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 4.4 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 4.4 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

DONT USE WITH PAGES!

I just de-installed Polylang as it had killed all my pages. Very complicated with various bugs (makes main menu disappear – and re-appear – and disappear…). Be sure you have a back-up of your site before installing!!!
I know it is for free and therefore one has to take those plug-ins with a grain of salt. But at least when using it with pages (not blogs) it is extremely unstable! Very disappointing!
Jorge (using macbook pro, Safari and OSX High Sierra)

It gives lots of problems, don’t install it!

Don’t use this free plugin with Woocommerce, suddenly you have buy the Polylang for Woocommerce 99€. Their site also is terrible, when you want to buy the Woocommerce version, the VAT validation tool doesn’t work and every time you try again all your data is gone. Pre contact with the seller is not availible, because you didn’t buy their product.

works for me

plugin work exactly as described, didn’t have any problems with installation or configuration.

doesn’t work

the default language is not taken into account, I have tried everything, no option to display the language selector in the menu

Destroyed my site!

Tried adding Hebrew to my site and it completely messed it up. That may have just been a clash with the theme but when I tried deactivating, and later deleting, the plugin, it also deleted the content of one of my pages and WordPress wouldn’t allow me to retrieve it afterwards.
I really regret downloading this plugin!

mon site ne fonctionne plus

Depuis quelques mois j’ai désactivé polylang car lorsque l’extension est active, le contenu des articles n’est plus visible, je n’ai plus que l’espace des commentaires, ça marchait très bien avant, je pensais qu’une mise a jour allait résoudre le problème, mais la ça fait un bon moment que ça ne fonctionne plus.

Aucun support pour les utilisateurs gratuits, donc extension desactivée…

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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 26 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.

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Changelog

2.3.6 (2018-05-17)

  • Pro: Fix post type archive slug not translated in ACF page link fields
  • WP 4.9.6: Translate the privacy policy page
  • WP 4.9.6: Add the translated user descriptions to exported personal data
  • Update Plugin updater to version 1.6.16
  • Fix conflict with the plugin View Admin As. Props Jory Hogeveen. #253

2.3.5 (2018-05-08)

  • Pro: Fix translated CPT slugs when one CPT name is a substring of another one. Props Steve Reimer.
  • Pro: Fix canonical redirection for post types archives when the CPT slug is translated
  • Pro: Fix ACF private key uselessly synchronized when the public custom field is not synchronized
  • Add filter ‘pll_filter_query_excluded_query_vars’
  • Redirect www. to non www. when using multiple domains
  • Fix Yoast SEO category sitemap not filtered by language when using multiple domains
  • Fix PLL_COOKIE === false not honored when using a cache plugin. #248
  • Fix empty predefined languages list

2.3.4 (2018-03-27)

  • Pro: Fix conflict with Pods related to translated slugs for custom post types
  • Add Friulian to the predefined languages list
  • Fix conflict (javascript error) with Gütenberg #225
  • Fix conflict on ajax requests introduced by WooCoommerce 3.3.4
  • Fix queries by ‘category_name’ not auto translated #238

2.3.3 (2018-03-15)

  • Pro: Fix tax query using a term sharing slugs (fix a conflict with Fusion Builder)
  • Restore Polylang (free) on REST requests, while disabling the language filter as in v2.3
  • Rework auto translated query with taxonomy in different language #223
  • Synchronize Yoast SEO primary category (needs Yoast SEO 7.0+)
  • Fix PHP warning introduced by Yoast SEO 7.0 #229
  • Fix tax query when using the relation ‘OR’
  • Fix a conflict with the combination of Barrel + WP Bakery Page Builder
  • Fix broken redirect with MU domain mapping #226
  • Fix site title not translated in password change email

2.3.2 (2018-03-05)

  • Pro: Fix REST requests not filtered by the requested language (introduced in 2.3).
  • Pro: Fix error 404 on single posts if posts are untranslatable
  • Deactivate Polylang (free) on REST requests by default.
  • Fix translated terms unassigned from posts when deleting a term
  • Fix auto translated query with taxonomy in different language returning empty results since WP 4.9 #223
  • Fix conflict with a homepage option of the theme Extra
  • Fix warning when filtering get_pages()

2.3.1 (2018-02-15)

  • Pro: Fix GET REST request with slug parameter deleting the post slug
  • Fix http request with a custom query var being redirected to the home page #216

2.3 (2018-01-30)

  • Pro: Duplicating a post now duplicates untranslated terms and the featured image (if media are translatable)
  • Pro: Add filter ‘pll_sync_post_fields’
  • Pro: Translate ACF Pro clone fields when creating a new field group translation
  • Pro: Allow to share slugs when creating a post or term with the REST API
  • Pro: Load asynchronously the script added on front for multiple domains and subdomains
  • Pro: Fix ‘lang’ parameter not interpreted when the query includes ‘name’
  • Refactor the synchronization of metas for better synchronization and performance improvement
  • Refactor the synchronization of taxonomy terms for performance improvement
  • Refactor language and translations saving for performance improvement
  • Refactor the synchronization of sticky posts
  • Remove all languages files. All translations are now maintained on https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/polylang #199
  • Refactor the list of languages to merge predefined languages, Facebook locales and fixes for W3C locales
  • Automatically deactivate Polylang when activating Polylang Pro
  • Disable programmatically translated post types and taxonomies in settings. Props Ulrich Pogson. #180
  • Set the cookie language in Javascript when a cache plugin is active
  • Automatically remove the home page from cache when requesting the detection of the browser preferred language
  • Use relative urls for the admin language filter in admin bar. #209
  • Disable auto translation of WP_Term_Query if it has a ‘lang’ parameter
  • Don’t filter REST requests by default. #211
  • Fix Yoast SEO statistics in dashboard showing only the default language. #211
  • Fix WP Rocket clearing the cache of the wrong adjacent post
  • Fix random header image
  • Fix home page not correctly loaded when adding a query var
  • Fix: Impossible to change the language code when the language code is also a WordPress locale.

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