A WordPress multilingual plugin that lets you create and manage content in multiple languages with a clean, native interface
Polylang Pro
Polylang Pro is a WordPress multilingual plugin that enables you to write posts, pages, and custom post types in multiple languages. It provides language switchers, SEO-friendly URL structures, and full WooCommerce compatibility for multilingual e-commerce stores without requiring cloud-based translation services.
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What is Polylang Pro?
Polylang Pro is a WordPress multilingual plugin that enables content creation and management in multiple languages. It supports posts, pages, custom types, WooCommerce, and string translations with SEO-friendly URL structures. Available on PluginTheme.net, it suits website owners building multilingual sites without cloud-based translation dependencies.
Key Features
Multilingual Content
Translate posts, pages, custom types, categories, and taxonomies
SEO URL Structures
Subdirectory, subdomain, or domain-per-language with hreflang tags
WooCommerce Support
Translate products, categories, attributes, and checkout pages
String Translation
Translate theme strings, widget titles, and plugin output text
Language Switcher
Widget, menu item, or shortcode with flags and language names
Who is this for?
Pros
- Clean native WordPress interface without cloud dependencies
- Flexible URL structures for multilingual SEO with hreflang support
- Full WooCommerce integration for multilingual e-commerce
- Works with most themes and plugins through standard WordPress APIs
- String translation for theme text, widgets, and plugin output
Cons
- •Manual translation required; no built-in machine translation
- •Database size grows with each language as translations create separate posts
- •Complex setups with many languages may require query optimization
Product Description
Polylang Pro is a multilingual plugin for WordPress that handles content translation through a native WordPress interface. Unlike cloud-dependent translation solutions, Polylang stores all translations locally in your WordPress database and integrates with the standard post editor for managing language versions of your content.
Core Capabilities
- Content translation: Create language versions of posts, pages, custom post types, categories, tags, and custom taxonomies. Each translation is a separate WordPress post linked to its counterparts in other languages.
- URL structure options: Choose between subdirectory (/en/, /fr/), subdomain (en.site.com), or domain-per-language (site.com, site.fr) URL structures for multilingual SEO.
- WooCommerce integration: Translate products, product categories, attributes, shipping classes, and checkout pages. Prices and inventory are shared across languages while product descriptions are translated independently.
- String translation: Translate theme and plugin strings, widget titles, menus, and other non-content text through a dedicated string translation interface.
- Language switcher: Configurable language switcher available as a widget, menu item, or shortcode with flag icons, language names, or custom labels.
Technical Details
Polylang Pro uses WordPress taxonomy system to assign languages, keeping translations as regular posts. This approach maintains compatibility with most themes and plugins. The plugin supports RTL languages, hreflang tag generation for SEO, and automatic browser language detection for visitor redirection.
Practical Considerations
Polylang requires manual translation of content; it does not include automatic machine translation. For automatic translation, you need the Lingotek addon or a separate translation service. Performance scales linearly with language count since each translation creates additional database entries. Sites with 5+ languages and large content libraries should monitor database size and query performance.
