What’s new in the world of Polylang?

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…

Let’s imagine that you have a site in English and in Arabic. WordPress allows you to choose your backend language. But if, for example you choose English, your editor will be in English too, meaning that you have to write your post from left to right, even if you are writing a post in Arabic….

Let’s imagine that you have to manage a site for US and UK. Some pages may be different for both countries – for example a store’s directory or local news – but it could happen that some pages could be the same for both countries – for example a documentation page or global news. In…

Polylang Pro 2.0 comes with major features for users having multiple domains: Another major improvement for Polylang Pro users is the integration of Advanced Custom Fields Pro: Custom fields are automatically copied when you create a new translation. Some new features are common to both versions of Polylang: Also some major changes, interesting mainly developers,…

Almost five years ago, I started writing a multilingual plugin for my personal needs. Three months later, I made it available to the public and released Polylang 0.1 on wordpress.org. To my great surprise, the number of users grew very rapidly. I started adding more features. Synchronization in 0.7, media in 0.9, WPML config file…

Today, we’ll see how translations are working in the WordPress ecosystem. First, you need to keep in mind that Polylang, Polylang Pro or Polylang for WooCommerce doesn’t translate anything. It “just” asks WordPress to load the correct language pack according to the language selected in front-end thanks to our language switcher. How translations in WordPress…

Want to learn how to add a language switcher to your WordPress site? You’ve come to the right place. A language switcher (or language selector) is your website’s multilingual navigator, allowing visitors to effortlessly explore content in different languages. It empowers your international audience to be able to select their preferred language when they are…

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