Polylang WordPress Plugin
Making WordPress multilingual
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 automat
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Sites running Polylang, click to open one
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Usage of Polylang over time
June 2023 — July 2024Between June 2023 and July 2024 the number of sites running this plugin went from 417 to 1 398 — up 981 (+235.3%).
| Month | Sites | Change |
|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | 1 398 | +35 |
| June 2024 | 1 363 | +151 |
| May 2024 | 1 212 | +88 |
| April 2024 | 1 124 | +151 |
| March 2024 | 973 | +85 |
| February 2024 | 888 | +32 |
| January 2024 | 856 | +158 |
| December 2023 | 698 | +143 |
| November 2023 | 555 | +80 |
| October 2023 | 475 | +16 |
| September 2023 | 459 | +31 |
| August 2023 | 428 | +5 |
| July 2023 | 423 | +6 |
| June 2023 | 417 | — |
Themes used with Polylang
Detected most often on sites that run this plugin.
| # | Theme |
|---|---|
| 1 | Betheme |
| 2 | Flatsome |
| 3 | Astra |
| 4 | Betheme-child |
| 5 | Hello-elementor |
| 6 | Flatsome-child |
| 7 | Wpcasa |
| 8 | Avada |
| 9 | Sahifa |
| 10 | Kingster |
| 11 | Porto |
| 12 | Generatepress |
| 13 | Divi |
| 14 | Oceanwp |
| 15 | Infinite |
| 16 | Dante |
| 17 | Jupiter |
| 18 | Ushuaia |
| 19 | Kingster-child |
| 20 | Twentythirteen |
Sites running Polylang
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