{"id":1482,"date":"2019-08-23T14:42:41","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T14:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpengine.com\/solution-center\/?post_type=wpe-tool&#038;p=1197"},"modified":"2020-08-18T00:34:33","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T05:34:33","slug":"polylang","status":"publish","type":"solution","link":"https:\/\/wpengine.com\/solution-center\/polylang\/","title":{"rendered":"POLYLANG Multilingual Plugin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Polylang is a popular, free multilingual content management plugin powering hundreds of thousands of WordPress sites. How does it work? It&#8217;s very easy &#8211; you write posts, pages and create categories as usual, and then you assign the language for each of them. It is directly integrated into the well-known WordPress interface. Performance and ease of use are the two priorities that guide our development. Polylang has proven to be powerful enough for sites having ten of thousands posts!<\/p>\n<p>Polylang Pro offers premium support and additional features to enhance your multilingual content management. For those online business owners, we also have a simple solution to easily manage your WooCommerce shop in multiple languages with our add-on, Polylang for WooCommerce.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/polylang.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Polylang-metabox.png\" alt=\"the block editor page featuring the language metabox\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>POLYLANG CORE FEATURES<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Add an unlimited number of languages &#8211; We have a list of already registered languages for convenience, but if yours is missing, you can add it with the parameters you want (flag, locale, writing direction&#8230;).<\/li>\n<li>Manage easily your menus and widgets &#8211; Create one menu per language. Decide to display your widgets for all your languages or for a dedicated language.<\/li>\n<li>Translate all post types, taxonomies, custom post types and custom taxonomies.<\/li>\n<li>Translate options from themes, plugins and WordPress core thanks to the Strings translations table.<\/li>\n<li>Add language switcher &#8211; You can add it in your menu, in a widget. A template tag is also available for developers.<\/li>\n<li>SEO friendly &#8211; Polylang is compatible with <a href=\"https:\/\/wpengine.com\/solution-center\/yoast-seo-for-wordpress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yoast SEO<\/a> and automatically takes care of multilingual SEO such as html <code>hreflang<\/code> tags and <code>opengraph<\/code> tags. You have the possibility to use, at your option, one directory, one subdomain or one domain per language.<\/li>\n<li>High performance &#8211; Polylang doesn\u2019t use any extra database tables and it is compatible with most cache plugins.<\/li>\n<li>Developers friendly &#8211; Many hooks and filters as well an API to customize your projects.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>POLYLANG PRO ADDITIONAL FEATURES<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Advanced content management &#8211; You can import the original content when you create a new translation. You can have the same post in several languages by synchronizing their content.<\/li>\n<li>Customize your urls &#8211; You can share, translate your slugs across your translations. You can also translate slug such as the category base.<\/li>\n<li>REST API &#8211; Compatible with the WordPress API: developers can use Polylang&#8217;s endpoints.<\/li>\n<li>Premium support &#8211; We help you via personal emails.<\/li>\n<li>Additional integration with plugins such as ACF Pro and <a href=\"https:\/\/wpengine.com\/solution-center\/the-events-calendar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Events Calendar<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>POLYLANG FOR WOOCOMMERCE ADD-ON FEATURES<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Send your emails in the customer&#8217;s language &#8211; Translate your emails and send them in the order language.<\/li>\n<li>Translate simple products, variable products, attributes and product categories.<\/li>\n<li>Product datas are synchronized across translations (stocks, prices, dimensions, weights).<\/li>\n<li>Support the WooCommerce CSV exporter and importer tool &#8211; Export and import your products in several languages.<\/li>\n<li>Compatible with some WooCommerce add-ons such as WooCommerce Bookings, WooCommerce Subscriptions, WooCommerce Product Bundles, Follow-Ups emails.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polylang is a popular, free multilingual content management plugin powering hundreds of thousands of WordPress sites. 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