What’s new in the world of Polylang?

An old issue Let’s imagine that you are building a site in French for a Belgian audience. WordPress is available in French (Belgium). You can select this variant in the predefined languages list of Polylang. You do it. It works flawlessly. Now you want to run a donation campaign with the Give WP plugin. You…

Multilingal options We have improved the way multilingual options are handled: Compatibility with WordPress 5.6 It’s a bit technical, but WordPress 5.6 will introduce a major change in bundled javascript libraries jQuery and jQuery UI. This is likely to impact a lot of themes and plugins and Polylang doesn’t make exception. We have of course…

The most important part of our job is to provide support to our customers. This quite often requires that we obtain some technical informations about the WordPress and Polylang configurations. You certainly remember that WordPress recently introduced the Site Health page, available via Tools > Site Health, to display debugging information and test results which…

As you know, because of the COVID-19 situation, on March 2, 2020 the decision was taken to postpone the WCEU planned in Porto next June to 2021 and to replace it with a fully virtual event. As always, we were happy to come and meet you at this event. This is why we support this…

In order to pursue our goal to make Polylang as easy to use as possible, the main feature added to this new version of Polylang is a setup wizard to help new users in the initial choices required to setup a multilingual website. Several steps will guide you in the installation process: Two important steps,…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…