Falang multilanguage for WordPress

Description

Falang is a multilanguage plugin for WordPress. It allows you to translate an existing WordPress site to other languages. Falang natively supports WooCommerce (product, variation, category, tag, attribute, etc.)

Free vs Pro

Pro version:
– Enabled popup translation for (menu/post,product…)
– DeepL translation service
– Translate/configure WooCommerce email
– has on-site support and language filtering – documentation
– WP User Manager
– YITH WooCommerce Compare
– WC Product addons
– CookieYes

Concept

  • Easy setup
  • Supports all languages supported by WordPress (RTL and LTR)
  • Translate additional plugins like WooCommerce, Yoast SEO, etc.
  • You can use Google, Azure, Lingvanex to help you with the translation (DeepL services available in Pro version)
  • Translation are set in the meta, the original content is not modified.
  • When you add a language in Falang, WP language packages are automatically downloaded and updated
  • Easy to use: Translate Posts, Pages, Menus, Categories from the plugin or linked from the WP interface
  • Translate Posts and Terms permalinks
  • Displays the default language if the content is not yet translated
  • The Language Switcher widget is configurable to display flags and/or language names
  • Language Switcher can be put in Menu, Header, Footer, Sidebars
  • Image captions, alt text and other media text translation without duplicating the media files
  • Language Code directly in the URL
  • No extra database tables created, no content duplication
  • Very good website speed performance (low impact)
  • Contains translations for IT, FR, DE, ES, NL
  • Falang is not meant for WordPress multisite installations!

Falang’s goal is to let you translate everything on your page

  • Taxonomies
  • Menu items
  • Theme and plugin strings
  • Custom fields
  • Page builder content
  • Widgets
  • Shortcode outputs
  • URL slugs
  • WooCommerce products
  • Page title and description
  • Image alt text and captions

Quick start video

Falang and Falang for Elementor Lite
(English version)

(French version with english subtitles)

Also available

Known issues

  • The WooCommerce attribute slug doesn’t have to be translated

Screenshots

  • The Post Listing translation panel
  • The Post translation panel
  • The Language Listing panel

Installation

  1. Upload the entire Falang folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory or install from WP Plugins
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  3. Add languages
  4. Set the default language (main language of your site)
  5. Add the Language Switcher to your site
  6. Translate your post / pages / menus etc. to the other languages

FAQ

  • Is Falang Translate free?
    Yes, but without on-site support.
    Purchased licenses come with 1 year on-site support.

  • Where to find help?
    First time users should read the Falang – Documentation, which explains the basics (with screenshots – in English).

Reviews

October 28, 2024
This WordPress translation plugin is one of the best I’ve seen and its extension for Elementor is excellent. Congratulations to everyone involved.
October 14, 2024
I tested 2/3 famous plugin for transalation. This is the best because he is simple and easy to configure.
October 9, 2024
If you are struggling with sub/addon domain settings for your multilanguage site, or hate the fact that you have to duplicate and edit every single page/post, and are probably not getting any support from anyone,… then drop everything you are doing and download Falang. You’ll be sorted for life.
September 23, 2024
All praise for Stéphane and his work. I’ve been in this business for a long time, and this is the best support ever!
August 6, 2024
Falang is an excellent plugin for managing multilingual sites. Simple to install and very fast and intuitive to use.The technical service is impeccable and present from a human point of view. You are not bounced by artificial intelligence or invited to consult a blog or anything else. The advice is personalised according to individual problems. Stéphane works with great professionalism and passion.I am happy to have discovered this plugin.
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Contributors & Developers

“Falang multilanguage for WordPress” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

“Falang multilanguage for WordPress” has been translated into 4 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.

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Changelog

  • 1.3.57 (2024/11/14)
  • fix Yoast title template translation (fix by Stamatios Aronis)
  • Switch on the same search query
  • add Rest API link filter
  • return only Falang Languages in get_languages_list
  • WordPress 6.7 compatible