What’s new in the world of Polylang?

We are happy to present an interview of Guerric de Ternay. Guerric is the founder of GoudronBlanc. His team has been using Polylang since 2017 on their WooCommerce website.  Who are you? Blogger since 2001, I’ve been a WordPress user since 2009.  Most of my work focuses on helping companies grow and innovate by creating…

This new version of our WooCommerce addon focuses on the compatibility with WooCommerce blocks. It introduces the compatibility with the block “All reviews”, which is available since WooCommerce 3.8 and the block “All Products”, which will come with WooCommerce 3.9. As this compatibility required some work on Polylang Pro side, all users needing these 2…

With the release of the version 5.2, WordPress rose its requirement for PHP from 5.2 to 5.6. That means that all user having an older version of PHP on their server – 13% of WordPress users at the time I am writing these lines – cannot update their WordPress to 5.2 or newer without changing…

In version 3.6, WooCommerce introduced blocks allowing to dynamically display products on any page created with the block editor. Polylang for WooCommerce 1.2, released the same day made sure that every blocks could be used in a multilingual context. For example, an English page displaying the “Top rated products” block displayed only products in English,…

We are happy to present an interview of Awesome Web Designs, an agency providing web design, graphic design and digital marketing services to their customers. They are using Polylang on their own website. Who we are? Awesome Web Designs is a Toronto based web design business. We use WordPress and Beaver Builder to create professional…

As you know, WordPress 5.0 introduced a new block editor to replace the classic editor which was in use since the first version. However, the changes not only impacted the editor itself. The complete editor page was rewritten in REACT, a technology never used before in WordPress, and all the metaboxes were replaced by new…

MailOptin is a WordPress plugin that allows you to grow your email list and display targeted messages and optin forms across your WordPress website with popups, slide-ins, notification bar, sidebar widget and in-content form. MailOptin integrates with your email marketing software such as MailChimp, AWeber, Constant Contact and ActiveCampaign and by so doing, subscribers are…

WordPress 5.0 introduces a brand new editing experience. Not only the old editor is replaced by a new block editor, but also all the old metaboxes are replaced by new side panels. Thus this new version greatly impacts a lot of plugins which are enriching the editor, add metaboxes, or modify the behavior of the…

Polylang Pro introduced the ability to duplicate the content from an original post to a new translation. The version 2.2 later introduced the possibility to synchronise translated posts and make sure that they always display the same content. With the time, we received a lot of requests either to copy or synchronize posts in bulk,…

We are happy to inform you that the QuadMenu authors have integrated a compatibility with Polylang. QuadMenu Pro is a WordPress Mega Menu plugin which allows you to design your menus. With QuadMenu Pro you can easily mega menus, tabbed menus, carrousel menus and define a custom template for each menu location. Let’s see how…

WooCommerce 3.0 introduced major changes in its structure. The main goal was to be able to use custom tables for products and orders in the future. This did not impacted Polylang for WooCommerce very much because WooCommerce mostly kept the backward compatibility with its previous versions. As Polylang for WooCommerce strongly relies on the underlying…

It is possible that most of the changes included in this new version won’t be visible to most users. The previous versions focused on new features. It is however as important to spend time to improve the plugin foundations. The synchronization process of taxonomy terms and custom fields was designed quite a long time ago…