Polylang Pro – Making WordPress multilingual

Description

Polylang transforms WordPress into a multilingual site, letting you translate posts, pages, custom content types, taxonomies, menus, widgets, and media directly from the native dashboard, with URL options by subdirectory, subdomain, or dedicated domain. The plugin automatically generates hreflang tags for international SEO, displays a language switcher as a widget or Gutenberg block, and keeps metadata synced between translations, serving blogs, WooCommerce stores, and corporate portals with audiences across multiple languages.

Key Features

• Native content translation
  Translates posts, pages, media, custom content types, and taxonomies right from the WordPress editor.
• Configurable language switcher
  Widget, Gutenberg block, and menu item display the language toggle on the front end.
• Flexible URL structure
  Configures languages by subdirectory, subdomain, or separate domains, with an optional language code in the default URL.
• Automatic hreflang
  Inserts hreflang tags in the head of each translated page for correct indexing by search engines.
• String translation
  A dedicated interface lets you translate theme, plugin, and widget text directly from the admin dashboard.

Benefits of Polylang

• International reach preserved
  Keeps your existing WordPress site and adds new languages without migrating platforms.
• Multilingual SEO handled
  Distinct URLs per language and correct hreflang prevent cannibalization and improve regional rankings.
• Familiar editing workflow
  Your team manages translations in the same WordPress dashboard, with no external tools to learn.
• Broad compatibility
  Works with WooCommerce, ACF, and page builders, keeping features intact across all languages.

Who Is It For?

• Blogs and editorial portals that publish in more than one language and rely on regional SEO to reach readers.
• WooCommerce stores selling into markets with different languages that need to translate products, categories, and checkout pages.
• Agencies and developers delivering multilingual projects to corporate clients, educational institutions, and nonprofit organizations.

Polylang solves WordPress internationalization without relying on parallel subdomains or multiple installations, keeping content, database, and workflow unified in a single install. Editors publish in each language directly from the same dashboard, and developers integrate the plugin with themes and extensions via a documented API, serving everything from bilingual institutional sites to corporate portals with a presence in global markets.

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