nLingual

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Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.

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7 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 0 listed. 7 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 4 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.

Directory rank

Ranked about #23,000 to #24,800, alongside the other plugins at 30+ installs. Plugins with the same install count swap places between wp.org requests, so this is where most of them sit. Checked monthly, last on 21 Oct 2026.

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

Crossed into this band 5 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 41% of the way through.

At the current install trend, crossing 40+ in roughly 168 days.

1. ★★★★★ Juhan

   3.5y 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

   5.9y 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

   7.8y ago

   No me funcionó con WP 4.9.9

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4. ★★★★★ warreb

   12.5y 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.

Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.

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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

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nLingual: 30+ active installs, 4.0★ (4 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-10-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/nlingual