Best i18n plugins for WordPress
The most popular i18n plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Loco Translate leads with 1M+ active installs, ahead of WP Multibyte Patch (1M+) and Performant Translations (30K+). All 75 plugins tagged “i18n” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 i18n plugins
- 1.
Loco TranslateThe most installed i18n plugin, with 1M+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 453 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 2.WP Multibyte Patch
1M+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 25 reviews, updated 2 weeks ago.
- 3.Performant Translations
30K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 16 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 4.WPBakery Visual Composer & qTranslate-X
7K+ active installs. Rated 3.2 from 11 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.1.42.
- 5.WPML Multilingual for BuddyPress and BuddyBoss
6K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 37 reviews, updated 2 weeks ago.
- 6.Preferred Languages
3K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 19 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 7.
WPGlobus for WPBakery Visual Composer2K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 12 reviews, last updated 3 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.1.16.
- 8.
Disable Login Language Switcher1K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 5 reviews, last updated 4 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.0.18.
- 9.Admin in English
1K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 30 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.6.1.
- 10.
AF Translate700+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 3 weeks ago.
All 75 plugins tagged “i18n”

Loco Translate
#37by Tim W1 month ago
Translate WordPress plugins and themes directly in your browser. Versatile PO file editor with integrated AI translation providers.
- Installs
- 1M+
- Rating
- 4.8(453)
- Downloads
- 7.8K/day
WP Multibyte Patch
Up in the last 7 days:1#65by Seisuke Kuraishi16 days ago
Multibyte functionality enhancement for the WordPress Japanese package.
- Installs
- 1M+
- Rating
- 5.0(25)
- Downloads
- 7.6K/day
Performant Translations
Down in the last 7 days:2#924by Pascal Birchler2 months ago
Making internationalization/localization in WordPress faster than ever before.
- Installs
- 30K+
- Rating
- 4.9(16)
- Downloads
- 189/day
WPBakery Visual Composer & qTranslate-X
Down in the last 7 days:7#2,602by John Clause9 years ago
Enables multilingual framework for plugin "WPBakery Visual Composer".
- Installs
- 7K+
- Rating
- 3.2(11)
- Downloads
- 11/day
WPML Multilingual for BuddyPress and BuddyBoss
Down in the last 7 days:13#2,852by Amir Helzer20 days ago
WPML Multilingual for BuddyPress and BuddyBoss allows BuddyPress and BuddyBoss sites to run fully multilingual using the WPML plugin.
- Installs
- 6K+
- Rating
- 4.6(37)
- Downloads
- 65/day
Preferred Languages
Down in the last 7 days:4#3,915by Pascal Birchler2 months ago
Choose languages for displaying WordPress in, in order of preference.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 5.0(19)
- Downloads
- 48/day

WPGlobus for WPBakery Visual Composer
Down in the last 7 days:21#4,790by Alex Gor4 years ago
WPGlobus for WPBakery Visual Composer is an extension to the WPGlobus plugin.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.7(12)
- Downloads
- 12/day

Disable Login Language Switcher
Down in the last 7 days:6#5,472by Dominik Schilling4 years ago
Removes the language dropdown from the login screen.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Admin in English
Down in the last 7 days:4#6,668by Nikolay Bachiyski9 years ago
Admin in English lets you have your administration panel in English, even if the rest of your blog is translated into another language.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.8(30)
- Downloads
- 11/day

AF Translate
Up in the last 7 days:4#7,704by AF themes25 days ago
AI-powered PO editor & POT generator. Translate WordPress plugins, themes & JS scripts using OpenAI, Claude, DeepL & Gemini. 100% update-proof.
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 145/day
qTranslate X Cleanup and WPML Import
Down in the last 7 days:93#7,711by Amir Helzer20 days ago
Allows a complete uninstall and cleanup of qTranslate X meta-tags or importing translations into WPML
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- 3.5(26)
- Downloads
- 23/day
Transliterado
Up in the last 7 days:43#9,979by bertilow16 years ago
This plugin gives better transliteration of non-ASCII characters in slugs.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day

Dokan WPML
Down in the last 7 days:11#11,003by weDevs7 days ago
WPML integration for Dokan Multivendor Plugin
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 22/day

Wareki
Up in the last 7 days:47#12,709by Katsushi Kawamori2 months ago
Add a Japanese calendar including the era in date format, posts, comments, archives and calendar.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day

WOVN.io
Up in the last 7 days:96#12,852by WOVN.io15 days ago
Localize your website, translate web pages in minutes.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 17/day
Send E-mail
Up in the last 7 days:41#13,879by Paolo Melchiorre15 years ago
Add a contact form to any post, page or text widget. Messages will be sent to any email address you choose. As seen on wordpress.com with added i18n.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WPML comment merging
Up in the last 7 days:107#16,585by CodingFabian15 years ago
This plugin merges comments from all WPML translations of the posts and pages, so that they all are displayed on each other.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 2.5(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Hide "Comments are closed"
Down in the last 7 days:49#18,937by Amitpal Singh10 years ago
Hide the "Comments are closed" text from posts.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Aucor URL Sanitizer
Down in the last 7 days:91#19,960by Generaxion7 years ago
Converts Cyrillic, Georgian, Arabic and Chinese characters in post, term slugs and media file names to Latin characters.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Superdav AI Language Packs
Up in the last 7 days:201#20,472by David Stone3 months ago
Automatically provides AI-generated translations for WordPress plugins when official translations are missing or incomplete.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

Quick Translate POT/PO/MO
Down in the last 7 days:1#23,288by Kasuga2 months ago
"Quick Translate POT/PO/MO" is a tool for generating and modifying WordPress plugin translation files.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

SimplePoTranslate
Up in the last 7 days:23#25,738by SimplePoTranslate4 months ago
AI-translate WordPress themes and plugins into 39 languages from your dashboard — keeps placeholders, HTML tags and plural forms intact.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Persian World
#27,912by Danial Hatami12 years ago
It will turn WordPress , bbPress and BuddyPress into Persian !
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 3.9(8)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Merged Comments for WPML
Down in the last 7 days:738#30,572by Ricky Poon4 years ago
An updated version of the fixed version of the no longer maintained WPML Comment Merging plugin.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WPML JSON API
Down in the last 7 days:93#32,509by dzachary14 years ago
An extension to JSON-API for sites using the WPML Multilingual CMS plugin.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day

Intl DateTime Calendar
#34,662by Theerawat Patthawee2 months ago
Show dates in Buddhist, Hijri, Hebrew, Persian and other calendars, with the digits and wording your readers expect. Your database never changes.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Admin bar languages
Up in the last 7 days:10,693#35,484by Mikael Korpela9 years ago
Show language flags at "My sites" list in WordPress admin bar.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Product Translations for WooCommerce
#37,160by LOCO APP1 year ago
A plugin for product translations management.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
My Review
Up in the last 7 days:6,210#38,395my-review18 years ago
My Review plugin helps you format your post as a review.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Languageswitcher
Up in the last 7 days:3,413#39,600by svenhesse11 years ago
Provides tags in the editor to enter text in different languages. Readers kann toggle between these languages by using the included switch element.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
ICanLocalize Translator
#41,406by Amir Helzer18 years ago
Allows running multilingual WordPress sites with zero management. Automatically creates and updates translation when you edit.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
YD Setup Locale
Up in the last 7 days:1,685#42,063by Yann at WP&Co17 years ago
Automatically sets up the WP language environment based on first part of url. Will setup XML lang attribute + $locale variable.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Pig Latin
Up in the last 7 days:1,947#43,672by Nikolay Bachiyski12 years ago
Overrides the current language and translates all messages into Pig Latin.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Translation Stats
Down in the last 7 days:14,421#43,702by Pedro Mendonça5 days ago
Show plugins and themes translation stats on your WordPress install.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(7)
- Downloads
- 13/day
Datepicker i18n
Up in the last 7 days:312#44,383by DanCoulter18 years ago
Globally translate your jQuery UI Datepicker instances.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
IDN AJAX Workaround
Down in the last 7 days:6,582#45,404by Sergey Biryukov14 years ago
Fixes AJAX requests on sites with IDN domains in IE and Opera.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WPMU Admin Interface Language
Up in the last 7 days:2,558#45,693by Patrick Chia17 years ago
Lets WPMU user to select language in backend administration panel.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Translation Preserver
Down in the last 7 days:1,427#45,938by Aaron Edwards12 years ago
A simple plugin that helps preserve your custom plugin translations through auto-updates by allowing you to put them in your WP languages folder.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Translator with Baidu Service
Down in the last 7 days:6,596#46,310by gongwan339 years ago
Translate your site in many languages with this plugin from JoyBin, Inc. The translating service provider is Baidu.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Bablic Website Translation
Down in the last 7 days:8,062#46,765by Bablic28 days ago
Connect WordPress to Bablic. After you save a project key, the public site loads the Bablic snippet.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 4.3(12)
- Downloads
- 0/day
IDNA
#47,534by dwright16 years ago
This plugin adds IDN support to Wordpress. IDN (Internationalized domain name) is a domain name that contains non-ascii characters.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Polyglots
Down in the last 7 days:2,502#47,917by Marko Heijnen11 years ago
Allows to connect your site to translate.wordpress.org
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

AS Flex Language Switcher
Up in the last 7 days:20,691#52,524by achtsekunden1 month ago
A language switcher with on-the-fly page translation. Bring your own API key — no ongoing cost to you, the site owner.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Dialekt
#54,333by paulpascual9 months ago
Automatic website translation by Dialekt.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Vanf Lab Visual Translation
#56,246by Vanf22 days ago
Translate your site into unlimited languages. Click any frontend text and translate it on the spot, with per-language URLs.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Evertongue
Up in the last 7 days:5,110#59,499by Photricity Web Design1 month ago
Carry your message across every language. Lightweight, scalable WordPress translation for reaching a truly global audience.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WakaLang
Up in the last 7 days:5,375#62,770by wakalab1 month ago
Keep visitors in their language. Lightweight URL-prefix language routing, hreflang, and a language switcher for WordPress.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day

Just Translate
#63,847by Akah Subarkah1 year ago
Automatically captures and translates text strings using a custom translation panel with multi-language support.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Multilify
#63,854by Kadir11 days ago
Make your WordPress site multilingual without copying posts. Each translation lives in the original post, with its own address.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

Flex Translate
#66,025by Flex Plugins1 month ago
Add multilingual support with path-based URLs, string translations, content groups, and optional per-language fonts.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day