What’s new in the world of Polylang?

Polylang 3.4 will soon be released and it comes with some technical changes. This new version is more focused on developers and we will discuss these changes here. In this release we wanted to: In fact, the changes in this release are the first step towards more improvements to come in the plugin’s architecture, but…

Polylang Pro 3.3 is coming soon with a brand-new, time-saving feature for you and your translators. Polylang Pro now supports XLIFF export/import for posts, pages, and media, meaning that you can export in a few clicks all your content that needs to be translated.  Before jumping to the short tutorial, let’s briefly overview the XLIFF…

Polylang 3.2 is here! What’s new? – The minimum WordPress version required is now 5.6.– Compatibility with the Full Site Editing (available with Polylang Pro 3.2).– Language switcher added in the navigation block (available with Polylang Pro 3.2).– Work started on the transition towards PHP 8.1. What changes for you as a user? Most of…

Polylang 3.1 is almost ready! What’s new? Lets look into our big works : – A Polylang compatibility with WordPress 5.8– The minimum WordPress version required is now 5.4– Export and import XLIFF files in our Strings Translations module.– And because we want to make sure that we don’t fall behind we also initiated the…

Hello fellow WordPress enthusiasts! As the world is on an uncertain path at the moment, we hope that everyone is staying safe and healthy. At least, here are some news that should improve your online editing experience. Confirm changes to the language of a post before loosing the translations links When you are editing a…

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…