Bjoern

Janne Ala-Aijala

Changing the WordPress site language to any other than English slows down page generation times. A lot. This is caused by the slow and inefficient way of text domain loading. PO and MO files are designed to be used with PHP Gettext-extension. But since it’s an extension, it’s not installed by defalt on very hosting platform. To overcome this barrier, WordPress has re-implemented the whole MO file parsing in PHP, but WordPress’ implementation is quite slow and memory intense.
This plugin replaces the default MO-Reader with another implementation of MO parsing, which is faster than the default one. Only used text domains are loaded (since version 4.6 this is also WordPress’ default behaviour) and from these only used translations are loaded. It also makes use of hash tables included in mo files, which are ignored completely by WordPress’ default implementation. To boost the performance even more, the plugin also caches translations to the object cache, if one is installed. For optimal performance you need a fast object cache backend like Redis, Memcached or APC(u).
Fast Translate is a minimalistic fork of <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-performance-pack" rel="ugc">WP Performance Packs</a> localization improvements. <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-performance-pack" rel="ugc">WP Performance Pack</a> offers additional control and more optimizations for WordPress performance, e.g. use of PHPs native gettext extension, improved image handling and CDN support.

Fast Translate

Faster WordPress localization with cache support.

Sergey Biryukov

webvitaly

Ivijan-Stefan Stipic

INFINITUM FORM

karevn

Atrax

Cyr to Lat Enhanced automatically converts Cyrillic, European and Georgian characters in post slugs, term slugs and media file names into Latin characters. 
It helps maintain clean, readable and consistent URLs on WordPress sites that use non-Latin scripts.
The plugin integrates directly with WordPress core sanitization (<code>sanitize_title</code> and <code>sanitize_file_name</code>) and performs transliteration at the moment slugs and filenames are generated. 
It does not modify post content, titles or front-end text. Its scope is strictly limited to URLs and file names.
On activation, existing post and term slugs are converted in the background using safe, batch-based processing via WP-Cron. 
WordPress core APIs are used to preserve permalink integrity and existing redirects.
Transliteration is based on an ISO 9-style mapping table with built-in support for: 
– Russian 
– Belarusian 
– Ukrainian 
– Bulgarian 
– Macedonian 
– Georgian
Locale-specific adjustments are applied automatically, and the transliteration table can be customized using a public filter.
Cyr to Lat Enhanced is intentionally lightweight and focused: 
– no admin interface 
– no settings pages 
– no bidirectional conversion 
– no data collection or tracking
The plugin continues the cyr2lat / cyr3lat lineage and remains compatible with the original approach introduced by Sergey Biryukov.
<h3>Advanced Transliteration</h3>
For advanced transliteration needs such as full content conversion, bidirectional processing, extended language rules and fine-grained control, consider the separate plugin: 
https://wordpress.org/plugins/serbian-transliteration/
That plugin is designed for complex multilingual setups and broader language processing beyond slugs and file names.
<h3>Adoption Notice</h3>
This plugin represents the continued maintenance of the original “Cyr to Lat Enhanced” project from the cyr3lat lineage.
The project has been revived to ensure long-term stability, modern WordPress compatibility and responsible maintenance, while preserving the original behavior and purpose.
<h3>Credits</h3>
Original upstream concept: Rus-To-Lat by Anton Skorobogatov 
cyr2lat / cyr3lat lineage contributors: karevn, Atrax, Sergey Biryukov, webvitaly
Maintainer: Ivijan Stefan Stipic (INFINITUM FORM)
<h3>Legal Notice</h3>
This plugin is licensed under the GPLv2 or later license.
All new contributions are released under the same license.

Cyr to Lat Enhanced

Ин дид, зыс плагин конверт май линкс фром кириллик ту латин вэри фаст, изи, энд визаут эни ишьюс, сенк ю!

Воркс лайк э чарм!


Strongly recommend to check all further versions from security perspective


Plugin was overtaken, switching to alternatives

Converts Cyrillic, European and Georgian characters in post, term slugs and media file names into Latin characters.

Fast Translate vs Cyr to Lat Enhanced