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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.

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Translatio is an open source tool for internationalization and localization of WordPress based websites. Translatio provides two translation workflows:
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<li>Live Translation workflow</li>
<li>Full Professional Translation workflow</li>
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Live translation workflow provides instant translation based on Google Translate engine. Simply configure the extra languages you want to support through the intutuive setup interface and save, then you are done.
Full Professional workflow provides more control and higher translation quality, which involves extracting the text for translation, translating and integrating back into WordPress. More specifically Translatio plugin hosts your translations locally for proof reading, editing and final publication. You can intergrate machine translation of your choice to prepare your contents, then leveraging fully featured translation editor with any 3rd party translation agencies.
Translatio provides multiple ways to handle different development phases of the WordPress websites with intuitive and easy to use interfaces, some features include:
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<li>Live Translation powered by Google Translate</li>
<li>Support Taxonomies translation, including Categories, Tags</li>
<li>Support Woo Commerce </li>
<li>Full cycle to keep translation locally for proof read, edit and publish.</li>
<li>Support Search Engeine Optimizaion/SEO URL</li>
<li>Support new block Gutenberg editor and classic editor.</li>
<li>Support Google Translate integration with editing capability</li>
<li>Language switcher based on
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<li>Draggable floating meanu</li>
<li>Sidebar widget</li>
<li>Along with title or description</li>
<li>With any page or post</li>
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<li>Language switcher is in language name or flags</li>
<li>Detect browser language setting</li>
<li>Support browser cookie</li>
<li>Premium service available</li>
<li>Live support community</li>
</ul>

Translatio

Make your website multilingual ready at ease with live translation or with support of full translation cycle, with machine translation integration.

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