Preferred Languages

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 73% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

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1. ★★★★★ aelbo

   3mo ago

   This is an excellent and very useful plugin. Must have!

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2. ★★★★★ evZek

   3.4y ago

   Es un plugin, imprescindible en cualquier instalación fuera del inglés.

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3. ★★★★★ David Perez

   3.5y ago

   Awesome plugin!

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4. ★★★★★ Pieterjan Deneys

   3.6y ago

   I honestly think that this should be a core feature of WP. The only thing wrong I notice is that when you are looking at the front end… The language of the admin bar changes into the site language but that’s the only issue I have with this plugin at the time of writing. For the rest, it’s a dream plugin.

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5. ★★★★★ tangermaroc

   5.4y ago

   a very cool plugin. this is a truely great plugin, You can use it for many purposes. It works great right out of the box, but is very easy to customize to suit your needs. my current use-case: i use this plugin to power up my page – which has visitors from several european Countries. I’m using this plugin to manage a small job-site: And i have to say: I love this plugin. And if it comes to support: it is so awesome to see that all is documented so well and good: You can do so much with this plugin: if you need to customize it towards your special use-case: just look at the documentation (and again have a look at the docs) Read those instructions – they are written so well, people. There’s a lot of detail there and alltogehter i have to say: it’s super well documented! Amazing job: i love this plugin, from me 5 stars – (i would give even more if it would be possible) keep up this awesome and outstanding job – it rocks!!!

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6. ★★★★★ capbussat

   5.7y ago

   I think this should be in Core for websites with several possible languages. I like it very much! Specially I appreciate that each user can also choose languages from the selected languages. (I am developing a translation plugin for my own needs to use Google Translate to translate posts/pages and complement it.) This topic was modified 4 years, 6 months ago by capbussat.

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7. ★★★★★ strarsis

   6.0y ago

   An indispensable plugin for sites that use a language with formal/non-formal variant. This should become a WordPress core functionality!

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8. ★★★★★ Michael Turner

   6.1y ago

   Its works fine for me. Very cool plugin

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1 disclosed vulnerability on record for this plugin, fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

1. Medium · 4.4 Preferred Languages <= 2.2.2 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2024-05-30 CVE-2024-35644 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 2.2.2 Patched in 2.3.0

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1

Translated into 44 languages, 20 at 90% or more

Plus 20 more locales with partial translations.

Growth timeline

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

1. 2025-11-20 3K+ → 2K+ down after 1 days in tier
2. 2025-11-19 2K+ → 3K+ up after 2 days in tier
3. 2025-11-17 3K+ → 2K+ down after 7 days in tier
4. 2025-11-10 2K+ → 3K+ up after 1 days in tier
5. 2025-11-09 3K+ → 2K+ down after 81 days in tier
6. 2025-08-20 2K+ → 3K+ up after 427 days in tier
7. 2024-06-19 3K+ → 2K+ down after 39 days in tier
8. 2024-05-11 2K+ → 3K+ up after 1 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).

• Performant Translations 40K+ installs · 4.5★ · 4 shared tags A
• Translation Stats 10+ installs · 4.3★ · 4 shared tags B
• Loco Translate 1M+ installs · 4.8★ · 3 shared tags A
• Polylang 800K+ installs · 4.7★ · 3 shared tags B
• Language Fallback 5K+ installs · 4.5★ · 3 shared tags B
• Translate and Go multilingual – Automatic AI translation – wpLingua 2K+ installs · 4.6★ · 3 shared tags A

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Preferred Languages: 2K+ active installs, 5.0★ (18 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/preferred-languages