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[H1] The Simplest Way to Build a Multilingual WordPress Site
Speak to the World Effortlessly!
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Translate Everything Effortlessly
[H2] Manual and Machine Translation
Translate the content of your WordPress site, from posts, pages, media, categories, tags, custom post types, custom taxonomies, widgets, navigation menus, products, to URLs.
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[H2] A Simplified Setupand WordPress-friendly Interface
Follow the installation wizard, add the languages you need, a language switcher, and you are all set to start translating directly from your WordPress admin. Polylang’s interface is purposefully designed to align with WordPress’s workflows
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Make WooCommerce multilingual and start selling internationally and boost your international sales
[H3] Fully Optimized for WooCommerce
Translate the WooCommerce products, pages, categories, emails, tags and attributes directly in the WooCommerce interface. The stock and prices are automatically synchronized across product translations.
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Our code is designed with an entire focus on performance
[H3] Achieve High Performance
Polylang is bloat-free: No extra tables. No shortcodes. Only the WordPress’ built-in core features that do not harm the performance of your website and your Core Web Vitals. Whatever we do, performance always comes first. Polylang is also fully compatible with cache plugins like WP Rocket.
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Rank in more languages and increase traffic
[H3] SEO-Ready
Technical SEO is automatically implemented on your multilingual site such as hreflang tag attributes or open graph tags. Easily translate your URL slugs and decide between using one directory, one subdomain or one domain per language.
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Built with developers’ needs in mind
[H3] Developers-friendly
Fully integrated with the WordPress REST API: developers can easily interact with external systems. Easily extend Polylang functionalities with hooks and APIs, ensuring seamless integration into your WordPress projects.
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[H3] Professional Support
A support team made of WordPress developers fluent in English and French! They will be happy to assist you promptly and effectively with any issues you may encounter.
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[H2] From simple blogs to WooCommerce sites: your passport to a truly global presence

[H3] Web Agencies and Developers
More leads and an easy multilingual solution for your clients.
Offer your services, portfolios, and client testimonials in multiple languages to attract international visitors and improve conversions. What’s in for your clients? An intuitive tool to go multilingual and manage translations in the long term.

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[H3] E-commerce Website
Skyrocket your business by selling your products abroad.
Multilingual WooCommerce sites not only enhance the user experience but also build trust and credibility among international shoppers. With effective translation, you can ensure clarity and confidence in every transaction on your WordPress site.

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[H3] Blogging
Reach a global audience and break the language barriers.
Gain more traffic by translating your content for an international audience. Through effective translation strategies, you can amplify your voice, cultivate meaningful international relationships, and inspire conversations that transcend borders.

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[H3] Corporate and Business
Increase brand visibility and unlock new growth opportunities.
Offer content in multiple languages to effectively communicate your brand message, products, and services to international markets. You are on the way to getting more international customers.

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Don’t Just Take Our Word for It
[H2] WordPress Users and Experts Love Polylang!

Polylang is our go-to plugin for creating multilingual websites
All multilingual sites we produce have been using Polylang for years, and it works like a charm. Whether it’s for multinationals with multilingual multisite networks or simple bilingual showcase websites, Polylang meets the needs of both our customers and our developers. It’s objectively the best solution on the market, and I think we’ve got plenty of time before we get such performant features in phase 4 of Project Gutenberg… mark my word from a WordPress Core Committer! ?

JB Audras
CTO @ Whodunit, Core Committer @ WordPress.org
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Collaborating with Polylang: elevating plugin efficiency and user experience
Polylang’s UI is clean and easy to use, and the code behind it is incredibly efficient. Collaborating with the Polylang team has been an absolute joy – together, we’ve worked to enhance our plugins’ features and make them even better. And the upcoming features we’ve been working on are going to blow you away!

Jordy Meow
Plugin Developer
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Mastering multilingual web development: the Power of Polylang for Agencies
As a web-development agency, we use Polylang for implementing multilingual WordPress websites. This allows us to design seamless and efficient websites that meet our clients’ needs. The user-friendliness and flexibility of Polylang have significantly streamlined our development processes, enabling us to consistently deliver
high-quality results. We are extremely satisfied with Polylang and recommend it to anyone focusing on multilingual capabilities with WordPress.

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Developper @ required.com
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Getting started
How to install and setup Polylang on your website
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Customize Polylang with functions, filters…
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[H1] It’s Not Just About Translating Your Site

Polylang is a comprehensive and user-friendly solution for redefining your WordPress multilingual experience.

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Built with performance in mind, Polylang fits all kinds of websites, including WooCommerce stores.
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[H2] Build a Fast Multilingual Website
Polylang leverages the core element of WordPress (the taxonomies) to deliver a fast multilingual solution. Using native features, Polylang ensures stability, efficiency, and optimized database queries: no extra tables or bloat, only fast loading times and superior performance.
[H2] Enjoy a Simplified Translation Workflow
With Polylang, you can easily switch between manual and machine translation. The translation process is intuitive and user-friendly, following the familiar WordPress workflow and logic. You can translate all your content in just a few simple steps.
[H2] Ensure a Global SEO Presence
Polylang improves your global visibility on search engines by translating SEO content, including keywords and meta descriptions. It has built-in SEO compatibility, hreflang tag implementation, and language-dependent meta tags.
[H2] Get a Fully Customizable Multilingual Experience
Polylang is designed with extensibility in mind to become developers’ favorite playground. It has many functions, filters, and hooks to meet all your multilingual needs. Regardless of your design preferences or functional requirements, Polylang has you covered.
[H2] Find the Polylang product that suits you!

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Polylang Pro

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1 year of updates and premium support

Multisite licence option available

50% renewal discount

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Polylang for WooCommerce

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1 year of updates and premium support

Multisite licence option available

50% renewal discount

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[H2]
Polylang Business Pack

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139€

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1 year of updates and premium support

Multisite licence option available

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[H2] Discover Our Main Features in Action!

[H3] Unlock the Power of DeepL
Machine Translation
Use the power of machine translation directly from your WordPress admin to speed up your translation process. You can always take over manually for fine-tuned accuracy. Machine translation is available for pages, posts, and products. It’s also available for the media located in posts or pages and the categories and tags that are in posts or products.

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[H3] Content Duplication and Synchronization
Manual Translation
Use content duplication and synchronization to translate all your content manually. Translate all your content easily from the familiar WordPress admin interface.

[H3] Start Selling Globally
WooCommerce Integration
With our dedicated add-on Polylang for WooCommerce, you can easily translate the content of your WooCommerce site. You can translate products, emails, categories, shop and checkout pages, and more.

[H3] Allow Visitors to Select Their Preferred Language
Custom Language Switcher
Customize your language switcher with or without flags and choose from various display options such as dropdown menus, simple lists in the footer, widgets, or in a block if you use the Full Site Editor. You can also display it anywhere on your site with a simple line of code.

[H3] Give a Little SEO Boost to Your Site
URLs & Slugs
Translate URLs and slugs easily, or opt to use the same slug for multilingual content, providing flexibility in structuring your website's URLs.

[H3] Import and Export Your Content Like a Breeze
XLIFF Export/Import
Easily import and export translation projects using the XLIFF format directly on your WordPress site. XLIFF format streamlines the translation process, ensuring compatibility and efficiency, making life easier for translators adding content to your site.

[H2] Key Features

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DeepL Integration
Use Machine translation for posts, pages, media, categories, tags
custom post types and custom taxonomies. ⚠️ Currently not compatible with Elementor and some builders. Contact us for builder support. Note: Polylang Pro does not provide a one-click “translate everything” feature.

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Manual Translation
Duplicate posts and pages across languages and translate everything manually, including media, widgets, and menus.

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WooCommerce Integration
Our add-on, Polylang for WooCommerce, allows you to create a multilingual WooCommerce site and translate products, categories, tags, and attributes.

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Flexible Language Switcher
You can easily switch between languages, add flags, and display your switcher anywhere on your site, such as menus, footers, and widgets.

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Multilingual SEO
Polylang Pro automatically implements Hreflang and open graph tags to improve SEO.

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Detect Browser Language
Detect and display content based on the user’s browser language preference.

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Flexible Language URL configuration
Choose from subdirectories, subdomains, or separate domains for each language, e.g., “example.com/en/”, “en.example.com”, “example.fr”.

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Block Editor and Site Editing Support
Full integration with the WordPress block editor and site editing functionalities.

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XLIFF Import/Export
Streamline translation tasks with easy importing and exporting capabilities, ideal for translators.

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Built-in Performance
Bloat-free interface designed within the WordPress admin, ideal for performance and meeting Core Web Vitals standards.

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Professional Support
Get professional assistance in English and French, from Monday to Friday. We’ve got you covered.

[H2] Do you have any questions?

[H3] Can I display a language switcher without the widget?

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It is possible to get a language switcher where you want in your theme without using the widget. For this, you can use the following template tag in your theme:
<ul><?php pll_the_languages();</ul>
See the documentation for theme and plugin programmers for more information about the function parameters.

[H3] I can’t add the language switcher in the menus

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In Appearance >Menus, click on screen options, top right of your screen, to expend the options and check the “Language switcher” checkbox. You should then see a new metabox in the “Add menu items” list which allows you to add a language switcher the same way you add other menu items.
Due to WordPress limitations, it is currently not possible to add the language switcher from the Customizer Menus.

[H3] How to customize the names in the language switcher?

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You can change the language name by modifying the full name of the language.

[H3] How to display the widget flags horizontally?

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The appearance of your site is controlled by CSS rules placed in the file style.css in your theme directory. The appearance of the language switcher is controlled by the classes “lang-item” for all languages and “current-lang-item” for the current language.
So you can add the following lines in style.css
.lang-item {
display: inline;
}
The topic was also discussed on the support forum: Flags vs. Text Links in widget

[H3] How to use different designs for different languages?

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For language dependent CSS rules, you can use the :lang CSS selector.
Languages written from right to left use the rtl.css stylesheet already included in most themes.
It’s also possible to apply a different stylesheet for each language. Indeed, stylesheets named liked en_US.css, fr_FR.css or ar.css put in your theme directory will be automatically loaded by WordPress.
Note that in every cases, you have to keep the main style.css file.

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