xili-language

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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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32 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 1 listed. 31 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 vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

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 · 98% 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 57% of the way through.

1. ★★★★★ irakly

   10.2y 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

   11.1y ago

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

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3. ★★★★★ mariostella

   11.4y 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

   11.5y 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

   11.6y 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

   11.8y 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

   11.8y 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

   12.1y 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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1 open vulnerability affects the current version (2.21.3). 1 of 2 disclosed are patched.

1. Open 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 Affects <= 2.21.3 No patch available
2. Patched 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 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 53 languages, 1 at 90% or more

Plus 29 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.

Not measured yet for this plugin’s topics. Its tracked searches are not among the measured topics. See the topics measured so far.

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 after 957 days in tier
7. 2022-08-09 2K+ → 1K+ down after 810 days in tier
8. 2020-05-21 3K+ → 2K+ down after 486 days in tier

Competes with

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xili-language: 600+ active installs, 3.9★ (14 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-10-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/xili-language