If a website has multilingual features, its audience, conversions, SEO rankings, and business success multiply as well. It fully uses the benefits of content marketing and reaches out to potential customers across the globe.
If your website is built with WordPress, or you are thinking about building one with it, you should know that this CMS has great “polyglottic” options. Among them are several useful WordPress plugins for multilingual websites, which we are going to review today.
These plugins, enhanced by customizations and used by caring developers’ hands, can be of great help in adding languages to your existing WordPress site or building a multilingual one from scratch. Our WordPress development company has experience creating awesome multi-language features — here is an example:
Best WordPress plugins for multilingual websites
The first plugin in this collection is paid, and that’s exactly what we used in the above example. The rest are free, some with extra paid options. Let’s review their key features.
WPML — WordPress Multilingual
The “WPML — WordPress Multilingual” translates every WordPress string (custom post types, theme texts, menus, taxonomies, and so on). The plugin comes it three main paid packages — from $29 to Multilingual CMS that costs $79. It has a great support from its development team.
Key features:
- 40+ languages and the option to add others
- Translation admin dashboard
- Compatibility with various plugins and themes
- Great SEO features in multiple languages
- The same domains, subdomains, or different domains for translations
- Compatibility with WooCommerce
- The possibility to turn users into “Translators”
- The possibility to order professional translation services from the dashboard
Polylang
The Polylang plugin is helpful for creating bilingual or multilingual websites. Editors can write content and define languages for it. The translation is optional, and posts can exist even in the non-default language only.
Key features:
- Unlimited languages RTL (right-to-left) support
- Language switcher provided as a customizable widget
- Language packs added and updated automatically
- Translatable posts, pages, categories, media, tags, menus, widgets, and more
- Support for custom post types
- The possibility to use a different subdomain or domain for a language
Lingotek Translation
The Lingotek Translation plugin is compatible with the Polylang plugin and can integrate with it. Its main benefit is that it offers cloud-based translations for your multilingual WordPress website that come in three types:
- professional translations with the option to select the provider right there
- community translations via the handy dashboard
- automatic translations with the help of the Microsoft Translator
Key features:
- Three options for translations
- Unlimited languages
- RTL (right-to-left) support
- Language switcher provided as a customizable widget
- Language packs added and updated automatically
- Translatable posts, pages, categories, media, tags, menus, widgets, and more
- Support for custom post types
- The possibility to use a different subdomain or domain for a language
WPGlobus – Multilingual Everything!
The “WPGlobus – Multilingual Everything!” plugin is another great assistant for a multilingual WordPress site. It lets you add languages and manually translate everything on your website. Besides the free version, it has a whole family of paid add-ons.
Key features:
- Translatable posts, pages, tags, menus, widgets, and more
- Flexible options for adding one or more languages
- Customizable language switcher
- Switcher for admin dashboard language
- Multilingual SEO features
qTranslate X
Here is another useful plugin for multi-language sites. Similarly to Polylang, the qTranslate X plugin lets you easily add translations to your WordPress website posts. It allows to work with dynamic multilingual content.
Key features:
Language switching buttons
Instant language change
Editing dashboard
Unlimited number of languages
Some languages out-of-box
SEO-friendly URLs that are unique for each language
Multilingual dates built-in
Translate WP website – Weglot Translate
The “Translate WP website – Weglot Translate” plugin automatically detects and translates content to the desired languages on your WordPress website. It also provides a handy dashboard that lets you edit the translations or order professional translation services.
Key features:
- 60+ languages (the free plugin version offers one)
- SEO friendliness
- Dedicated URLs for translations
- Compatibility with all plugins and themes
- Real-time translation display
- Customizable language switcher
- Handy dashboard
Your multilingual WordPress site awaits you!
The multi-language future of your WordPress website promises to be very successful. Just contact our web developers, and they will help you choose among the best WordPress plugins for multilingual websites, configure them perfectly, or create a new multilanguage WordPress site.