Best language plugins for WordPress
The most popular language 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 Polylang (900K+) and Translate WordPress with GTranslate (900K+). All 159 plugins tagged “language” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 language plugins
- 1.
Loco TranslateThe most installed language plugin, with 1M+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 453 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 2.
Polylang900K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 3,004 reviews, updated 2 weeks ago.
- 3.
Translate WordPress with GTranslate900K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 4,962 reviews, updated 2 weeks ago.
- 4.
Translate WordPress100K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 620 reviews, updated 2 weeks ago.
- 5.
Bogo10K+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 48 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 6.
Multilingual Contact Form 7 with Polylang9K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 17 reviews, updated 9 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 7.Hreflang Manager
8K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 9 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 8.
Hyyan Integration for WooCommerce and Polylang8K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 124 reviews, updated 3 weeks ago.
- 9.
Ray Enterprise Translation7K+ active installs. Rated 2.6 from 48 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 10.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.
All 159 plugins tagged “language”

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
- 7.7K/day

Polylang
Up in the last 7 days:1#71by Chouby19 days ago
Go multilingual in a simple and efficient way. Keep writing posts and taxonomy terms as usual while defining their languages all at once.
- Installs
- 900K+
- Rating
- 4.7(3K)
- Downloads
- 10.9K/day

Translate WordPress with GTranslate
Down in the last 7 days:1#72by edo88817 days ago
Translate WordPress with Google Translate multilanguage plugin using AI translation. Complete multilingual SEO solution, WooCommerce compatible.
- Installs
- 900K+
- Rating
- 4.9(5K)
- Downloads
- 7.8K/day

Translate WordPress
Down in the last 7 days:2#407by edo88817 days ago
Translate WordPress with Google Language Translator multilanguage plugin which allows to insert a language selector widget anywhere on your website.
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 4.7(620)
- Downloads
- 1.1K/day

Bogo
Up in the last 7 days:3#1,732by Rock Lobster Inc.2 months ago
A straight-forward multilingual plugin. No more double-digit custom DB tables or hidden HTML comments that could cause you headaches later on.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.5(48)
- Downloads
- 119/day

Multilingual Contact Form 7 with Polylang
Down in the last 7 days:1#2,183by Andreas Münch9 months ago
Enables string translation and use of the same forms in different languages of Contact Form 7 forms with Polylang
- Installs
- 9K+
- Rating
- 4.9(17)
- Downloads
- 48/day
Hreflang Manager
#2,365by DAEXT13 days ago
The Hreflang Manager plugin provides you an easy and reliable method to implement hreflang in WordPress.
- Installs
- 8K+
- Rating
- 4.7(9)
- Downloads
- 121/day

Hyyan Integration for WooCommerce and Polylang
Up in the last 7 days:12#2,418by Hyyan Abo Fakher22 days ago
Connect WooCommerce and Polylang for a multilingual store.
- Installs
- 8K+
- Rating
- 4.7(124)
- Downloads
- 93/day

Ray Enterprise Translation
Down in the last 7 days:14#2,519by Jiro Sasamoto12 days ago
Convenient cloud-based localization and translation for WordPress.
- Installs
- 7K+
- Rating
- 2.6(48)
- Downloads
- 140/day
WPBakery Visual Composer & qTranslate-X
Down in the last 7 days:8#2,600by John Clause9 years ago
Enables multilingual framework for plugin "WPBakery Visual Composer".
- Installs
- 7K+
- Rating
- 3.2(11)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Admin Locale
Down in the last 7 days:5#2,834by Louy Alakkad14 years ago
This plugin allows you to change the language of the admin panel without changing the whole site language.
- Installs
- 6K+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Language Fallback
Up in the last 7 days:1#2,983by Bernhard Kau1 month ago
Set a language as a fallback for the chosen language (e.g. "Deutsch" as a fallback for "Deutsch (Sie)")
- Installs
- 5K+
- Rating
- 4.8(23)
- Downloads
- 28/day

Multisite Language Switcher
Down in the last 7 days:5#3,686by Dennis Ploetner9 days ago
A simple, powerful and easy-to-use plugin that will help you to manage multilingual content in a multisite WordPress installation.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.8(99)
- Downloads
- 146/day
Flag Icons
Down in the last 7 days:13#3,839by Vasilis Triantafyllou4 years ago
Flags Icons Language Switcher.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.9(20)
- Downloads
- 15/day
Preferred Languages
Down in the last 7 days:14#3,922by Pascal Birchler2 months ago
Choose languages for displaying WordPress in, in order of preference.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 5.0(19)
- Downloads
- 49/day

Disable Login Language Switcher
Down in the last 7 days:6#5,462by Dominik Schilling4 years ago
Removes the language dropdown from the login screen.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Language Switcher
Down in the last 7 days:19#6,863by rafasashi1 year ago
Add a Language Switcher to Menus, Post Types and Taxonomies.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.0(7)
- Downloads
- 28/day
WPML Shortcodes
Up in the last 7 days:11#7,328by Mirco Babini10 years ago
Adds shortcodes to the WPML environment, like wpml__, wpml_e and more. Makes WP full WPML ready.
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 11/day

AF Translate
Up in the last 7 days:17#7,701by AF themes24 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
- 141/day

Sublanguage
Up in the last 7 days:15#8,029by maximeschoeni11 months ago
Sublanguage is a lightweight multilanguage plugin for wordpress.
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- 4.6(31)
- Downloads
- 11/day

xili-language
Down in the last 7 days:15#8,413by Michel - xiligroup dev1 year ago
xili-language lets you create and manage multilingual WP site in several languages with yours or most famous localizable themes. Ready for CMS design.
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 3.9(14)
- Downloads
- 14/day

IP Locator
Down in the last 7 days:46#8,670by Pierre Lannoy2 months ago
Country and language IP-based detection for WordPress. Fast, reliable, plug & play.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 22/day

GPTranslate
Up in the last 7 days:89#8,963by JExtensions Store24 days ago
Featured by WPTuts. Native AI Translation Agent that automatically translates your site with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, DeepL and more.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 5.0(34)
- Downloads
- 51/day

Simple Learn Japanese Quiz
Up in the last 7 days:12#11,005by tourhand3 years ago
Use this simple 'learn Japanese' plugin for your travel website or language school website.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

WP Slug Post Type Custom Language (Polylang)
Up in the last 7 days:35#11,098by carlosramosweb3 years ago
Change your internal URLs (Slug) of your custom Post Type to the desired language of the system (Polylang).
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 4.2(6)
- Downloads
- 7/day

Per Post Language
Down in the last 7 days:99#11,540by Fahad Alduraibi10 years ago
This plugin allows the user to set the blog language per post or page while having a default blog language.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 4.9(9)
- Downloads
- 7/day

R3DF Dashboard Language Switcher
Up in the last 7 days:28#12,558by Rick Radko11 years ago
This plugin allows logged in users to select the language they would like to use when viewing the WordPress dashboard. It works with multisite and sin …
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 4.1(9)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Theme Blvd WPML Bridge
Down in the last 7 days:106#12,705by Jason12 years ago
This plugin adds additional WPML compatibility for Theme Blvd themes.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Advanced Custom Fields
Down in the last 7 days:34#13,433by Ivan Paulin10 years ago
Custom field addon for Advanced Custom Fields plugin which provides a list of used WPML languages on website.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Simple Language Switcher
Down in the last 7 days:31#13,486by matthewbe13 years ago
A simple and lightweight plugin that displays a customizable language switcher.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

HTML Global lang Attribute
Down in the last 7 days:9#13,961by Alex Zappa4 years ago
This plugin slice the language attribute for HTML tag, For example: lang="en-US" to lang="en"
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day

WPCasa Polylang
Up in the last 7 days:321#14,062by WPSight2 months ago
Add support for Polylang to manage WPCasa property data in multiple languages.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Set HTML lang attribute per post
Up in the last 7 days:15#14,670by nilsnh12 years ago
This wordpress plugin adds a meta box for specifying html lang="" language per post.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.3(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
AI Translate For Polylang
Up in the last 7 days:38#15,502by jamesdlow1 month ago
Add auto AI translation caperbility to Polylang using OpenAI/ChatGPT, Anthropic/Claude, Google/Gemini or OpenRouter.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.3(6)
- Downloads
- 22/day
Language Redirect
Down in the last 7 days:63#15,878by bjoerne9 years ago
Redirects from the root site of a multisite project to a language specific network site.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.0(13)
- Downloads
- 0/day

TranslateRocket
Up in the last 7 days:941#16,051by Federico1 day ago
Translate your whole site in one click, with no API key, from any browser. Unlimited languages, free, no paid tier.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 203/day
xLanguage
Up in the last 7 days:25#16,306xlanguage17 years ago
Allows you to blog in multi-language, and users to select which to read. Works on every blog UI elements, not just the post.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WCM User Language Switcher
Up in the last 7 days:68#16,396by Stephen Harris6 years ago
Adds a button to the admin toolbar. This buttons allows users to seamlessly switch between available languages.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(8)
- Downloads
- 11/day
WPML Translate Shortcode
Up in the last 7 days:6#16,520by Mirco Babini10 years ago
Adds the wpml_translate shortcode to your shortcode suite. You can also use the wpml_text_if_language( $lang, $content ) in your php code.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Lang Attribute for the Block Editor
Down in the last 7 days:81#17,008by Jb Audras2 months ago
Add lang attribute to the text formatting toolbar in the block editor.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 4.7(3)
- Downloads
- 14/day

PRyC WP
Up in the last 7 days:234#17,621by Patryk4 months ago
The plugin regularly removes translations from Divi Builder (Elegant Themes Divi & Extra themes & Divi Builder plugin).
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Simple Google Translate Widget
Down in the last 7 days:19#18,118by baynado5 years ago
Zeige internationalen Lesern Deinen Inhalt in ihrer Sprache mit dem Google Übersetzung Widget.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Sublanguage Switcher Widget
#18,272by Ralf Geschke8 years ago
Sublanguage Switcher Widget is a plugin to display a fancy language switcher widget when Sublanguage plugin is used
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
RTLer
#18,281by Louy Alakkad16 years ago
This plugin, RTLer, generates the RTL stylesheet for you from your theme's 'style.css' or any other CSS file.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

WPSSO User Locale Selector
Down in the last 7 days:76#19,882by JS Morisset11 days ago
Quick and easy locale / language / region selector for the WordPress admin toolbar.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 11/day
gText Widget
Down in the last 7 days:302#19,935by Guram Kajaia12 years ago
This is multilingual text widget, which works with qTranslate plugin.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Search Support For WPML with Algolia
#22,098by I. Kancijan4 years ago
Add multilingual support to your Algolia search results.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
DeMomentSomTres Language
Down in the last 7 days:37#22,282by Marc Queralt i Bassa1 year ago
DeMomentSomTres is a brand new plugin devoted to automatically commute to user browser language for WPML websites.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

nLingual
#23,091by Doug Wollison2 years ago
A simple but flexible multilingual system. Features custom language management, post data synchronization and theme/plugin development utilities.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 4.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Language Attribute for Container Blocks and Pages/Posts
Up in the last 7 days:1,890#23,252by Naked Cat Plugins20 days ago
Add lang and dir attributes to Group, Columns, Cover, and other specific WordPress Blocks, Templates, or to specific Posts/pages.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day