nLingual

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At the current install trend, crossing 40+ in roughly 403 days.

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1. ★★★★★ Juhan

   3.3y ago

   Some background information: The multilingual plugins could be divided into 4 groups (You can make a search: Multilingual WordPress in WordPress.org Documentation), and there this amazing but rarely downloaded plugin belongs to the first group: 1) Manage multilingual posts in one post per language (e.g. WPML – paid, xili-language, Polylang, Bogo or Sublanguage). A rare advantage of nLingual is that the language of a certain page of the website can also be left undefined; then it will be displayed regardless of the selected site language, whether the page is opened via the main Menu or with the “Pages” Widget. Instead of language flags, it is possible to put a Language Changer entry in the Menu, which can be easily reworded. If you use a plugin that displays a tree of pages on WP admin pages (eg Admin Menu Tree Page View or F4 Post Tree), unlike Polylang, the tree displays pages or posts in all languages at once (this can be annoying if there are hundreds of pages, but however more convenient if there are a few dozen of them.) It is characteristic of several other multilingual plugins (e.g. Sublanguage and Falang) that if the multilingual plugin is deactivated, even for a while, for example to detect the incompatibility of some certain plugins (e.g. with the corresponding plugin Meks Quick Plugin Disabler), the site “locks” to the Home Page. And it only helps if, in addition to clearing the web browser buffer, you briefly change the Homepage from the WP settings, and then change back to the original. Fortunately, nLingual does not have this drawback (as well as other plugins belonging to group 1.) One more advantage: when deactivating, with nLingual no annoying parentheses will remain in pages or menus (as in the case of the 2nd group plugins WPGlobus and WP Multilang). However, for the sake of truth, it should be noted that, like all group 1 plugins, nLingual is little slower compared to those that do not create new pages for additional languages (up to 33% additional server time). This means that we will probably never see a win-win situation in this area. I hope this trustful multilingual plugin gets also in future updates! This topic was modified 3 years, 2 months ago by Steven Stern (sterndata). This topic was modified 2 years, 5 months ago by Juhan.

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2. ★★★★★ Lovro Hrust

   5.8y ago

   This is plugin that I chose as a developer because of it’s simplicity and minimal impact on page speed. I tested it along with several other much more famous plugins, and this gave me the best speed results. If some small issues with plugin would be resolved, I would give it a 5 star. I see a potential in it. This topic was modified 5 years, 7 months ago by Lovro Hrust.

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3. ★★★★★ elprofessore

   7.6y ago

   No me funcionó con WP 4.9.9

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4. ★★★★★ warreb

   12.3y ago

   One of the better (and free!) multilanguage plugins I’ve used. Great work!

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Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.6.2

Translated into 136 languages, 0 at 90% or more

Plus 112 more locales with partial translations.

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2026-06-03 20+ → 30+ up after 35 days in tier
2. 2026-04-29 30+ → 20+ down after 8 days in tier
3. 2026-04-21 20+ → 30+ up after 8 days in tier
4. 2026-04-13 30+ → 20+ down after 8 days in tier
5. 2026-04-05 20+ → 30+ up after 3 days in tier
6. 2026-04-02 30+ → 20+ down after 1 days in tier
7. 2026-04-01 20+ → 30+ up after 1 days in tier
8. 2026-03-31 30+ → 20+ down after 18 days in tier

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• B Basic Bilingual 10+ installs · 3.6★ · 4 shared tags D
• Loco Translate 1M+ installs · 4.8★ · 3 shared tags A
• Translate WordPress with GTranslate 900K+ installs · 4.9★ · 3 shared tags A
• Polylang 800K+ installs · 4.7★ · 3 shared tags B
• W WPBakery Visual Composer & qTranslate-X 7K+ installs · 3.6★ · 3 shared tags D
• Translate and Go multilingual – Automatic AI translation – wpLingua 2K+ installs · 4.6★ · 3 shared tags A

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nLingual: 30+ active installs, 4.0★ (4 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-09-01. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/nlingual