xili-language

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 98% 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. ★★★★★ irakly

   10.0y ago

   Xili language is not compatible with WP 4.6. Activation of the plugin results in Error 500, or some unspecified database error. Considering that Xili language is meant to be one of the core plugins of a multilingual site, this is a disaster. Deactivation creates havoc on a site: menus disappear, all content gets all mixed up.

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2. ★★★★★ Branike

   10.9y ago

   It works correctly. Exactly as desired. Thank the developers.

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3. ★★★★★ mariostella

   11.2y ago

   **UPDATE** Oh my God! If you have a responsive template Do not use this plugin! Just discovered that on mobile devices all the menus translated with the Menus Selection option in the menus section do not pick up the page name but simply output PAGE LIST INSERTION POINT!!! Please, please, PLEASE!!! Remove it from the repository, rework it then repost it! I appreciate your work, but all this is a huge waste of time and gives you the developer a bad name! You should at least state all the flaws this plugin has. Not really a translation plugin at all in this stage. **Original post** Unfortunately it’s the only one that works with my template. Menues are a nightmare to translate, and instructions and tips are kinda-google-translated, hardly understandable. Hate to be this harsh but I also hate having to waste hours for nothing.

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4. ★★★★★ eatlikej

   11.4y ago

   I have a multi language site of English and Japanese, I originally just wanted to make an English site but I reside in Japan and many of my friends are Japanese and they recommended to make it to bilingual……so I tried qtanslate-x first with Fashonista. Once it was working but when I switch to Auberge, it failed. I research for an alternative and found xili language plugin. I feel having different language posts separately is better way than having them as one post. I still have few problems to fix but thanks to xili language, my site is up and running 🙂 They are also nice with mail support too!

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5. ★★★★★ Rachel

   11.4y ago

   When I try to activate this plugin my dashboard doesn’t load. It’s a completely white page! The only way I could delete this plugin is through FTP. If I didn’t know how to do that there would be no way I could get into my site. Don’t EVER recommend!

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6. ★★★★★ Juddi22

   11.6y ago

   Hello, I am on WordPress Multisite and I installed the plugin on just one of my sites for testing purposes. I then deactivated the plugin and now I want to delete it, but I am given the following message on a whote screen: Impossible to erase plugin settings in multisite mode – need to done site by site before erasing folder ! Please can you tell me how to delete plugin files from my installation? Or is that possible? It was overall ok but it was just not suiting my purposes. Now I need it deleted please! 🙂 Thank you!

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7. ★★★★★ Juddi22

   11.6y ago

   Hi, I installed the plugin just for testing purposes with my multisite installation, then I activated it on just one of the blogs and then deactivated it and went to Network admin to delete it. However, I receive the following error message that I cannot delete it: Impossible to erase plugin settings in multisite mode – need to done site by site before erasing folder ! How can I delete that plugin now? Thanks

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8. ★★★★★ Ksinisk

   11.9y ago

   I only recently started with WP. I have a holiday rental site in 3 languages and needed a WP plugin to do the job. Xili is absolutely great.Yes, there is a learning curve and some things (MENU!!!) are pretty unintuitive. But once you get the hang of it, it’s great. Multilanguage menus, posts, recent post widgets, categories (with xili-dictionary), you name it. It even allows you to have different menu entries for different languages, so you don’t have to exactly mirror everything. Thanks guys!

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2 disclosed vulnerabilities on record for this plugin, 1 still affects the current version.

1. Medium · 6.4 xili-language <= 2.21.3 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2025-09-22 CVE-2025-58654 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 2.21.3 No patch available
2. Medium · 6.1 xili-language <= 2.21.2 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2025-04-01 CVE-2025-31085 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 2.21.2 Patched in 2.21.3

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.7.2

Translated into 52 languages, 1 at 90% or more

Plus 28 more locales with partial translations.

Growth timeline

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

1. 2026-05-26 700+ → 600+ down after 107 days in tier
2. 2026-02-08 800+ → 700+ down after 3 days in tier
3. 2026-02-05 700+ → 800+ up after 6 days in tier
4. 2026-01-30 800+ → 700+ down after 192 days in tier
5. 2025-07-22 900+ → 800+ down after 121 days in tier
6. 2025-03-23 1K+ → 900+ down

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).

• Polylang 800K+ installs · 4.7★ · 3 shared tags B
• Bogo 10K+ installs · 4.4★ · 3 shared tags A
• Multisite Language Switcher 3K+ installs · 4.7★ · 3 shared tags A
• Translate and Go multilingual – Automatic AI translation – wpLingua 2K+ installs · 4.6★ · 3 shared tags A
• GPTranslate – Multilingual AI Translation for WordPress: Translate Websites with AI Agents 500+ installs · 4.7★ · 3 shared tags A
• T Theme Blvd WPML Bridge 200+ installs · 4.1★ · 3 shared tags D

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xili-language: 600+ active installs, 3.9★ (14 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/xili-language