Photricity Web Design

<p>Evertongue helps WordPress sites carry one message across many languages without the overhead of a heavyweight multilingual system.</p>
<p>It was built for teams who need more than a handful of translations. Many popular multilingual plugins work well for a few languages, then become hard to manage as the language list grows. Evertongue keeps the workflow intentionally simple: real WordPress pages and posts, predictable language URLs, focused string translation, and switchers that remain usable when your audience spans dozens of languages.</p>
<p>Inspired by Revelation 5:9, “every tribe and tongue and people and nation,” Evertongue is for mission-driven teams working to make their message accessible to a global audience.</p>
<h4>What Evertongue does</h4>
<ul>
<li>Translate pages and posts as whole posts using the standard Gutenberg/classic editor</li>
<li>Translate theme/site strings</li>
<li>Default language at the site root, others under <code>/{code}/</code></li>
<li>Identical slugs across every language for a given page or post</li>
<li>Auto-swapping menu items with fallback to the default language</li>
<li>Floating language switcher, or manual template tag</li>
<li>hreflang alternate links and og:locale metadata on translated pages and posts</li>
<li>WPML and Polylang importers for migrating languages, content, and strings</li>
<li>PO file export/import for round-tripping strings</li>
</ul>
<h4>What Evertongue does not try to be</h4>
<p>Evertongue is not an all-in-one localization suite. It does not try to handle every edge case, automatic translation workflow, or site-specific integration inside the core plugin. The goal is a clean foundation for multilingual content that stays understandable, maintainable, and fast as your language count grows.</p>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<p>Add languages under Evertongue <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Languages. Configure your default. Translate pages and posts from the editor sidebar (Gutenberg) or side meta box (Classic).</p>
<p>Render the language switcher in your theme:</p>
<pre><code><?php if ( function_exists( 'evertongue_switcher' ) ) evertongue_switcher(); ?>
</code></pre>
<p>Use <code>style => 'combobox'</code> for a searchable dropdown.</p>
<p>For users who prefer not to edit theme code, enable the floating button or footer list under Evertongue <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Settings <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Automatic switchers.</p>


Evertongue

Carry your message across every language. Lightweight, scalable WordPress translation for reaching a truly global audience.

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Dion Hulse

Pascal Birchler

WordPress Performance Team

<p>Making internationalization/localization in WordPress faster than ever before.</p>
<h3>Disclaimer about WordPress 6.5</h3>
<p><strong>Attention:</strong> most functionality of this plugin has been merged into WordPress 6.5! You might not need it anymore.</p>
<p><em>However</em>, this plugin is still relevant for cases where language packs are not downloaded from WordPress.org but somewhere else, for example if you are developing your own plugins or using commercial plugins.</p>
<p>The Performant Translations plugin converts the translation files of those plugins to the new file format introduced in WordPress 6.5, to really optimize them for speed.</p>
<h3>What this plugin does</h3>
<p>This project uses a new approach to handle translation files in WordPress, making localization blazing fast.</p>
<p>An <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/07/24/i18n-performance-analysis/" rel="nofollow ugc">in-depth i18n performance analysis</a> showed that localized WordPress sites load significantly slower than a site without translations.</p>
<p>With this plugin’s new approach to localization, this overhead is massively reduced, making your site fast again. It does so by converting <code>.mo</code> translation files to <code>.php</code> files.</p>
<p>If your site is using a language other than English (US), you should see immediate speed improvements simply by activating this plugin.</p>


Performant Translations


This is a commendable effort, and it came out at the perfect time, at least for me.



I am looking forward to seeing how it evolves, and I hope to see it merged with the core in the fourth phase of the Gutenberg project.


Commendable effort


Installed this plugin to see what the effect is on my site. I am not yet 100% sure that it makes a big difference. But that all depends on the amount of texts used on your site. So far no bad experiences


Plugin speeds up the presentation of your site


This problem has been around for a long time and I've used various plugins. I hope it will be added to the core soon!


Required for non-English speaking WPs


I've got a multi language site (with WPML) that has a huge performance problem. I was not able to figure out what is actually causing the performance problem, the main problem probably has nothing to do with i18n, this plugin still helps cause it significantely speeds up the translations, leaving the only bottleneck to be the unknown problem.



Many thanks for your efforts!


Cool

Making internationalization/localization in WordPress faster than ever before.

Evertongue vs Performant Translations