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Pascal Birchler

Dion Hulse

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


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.

rafasashi

<p>Language Switcher allows you to map urls of alternative languages for Post Types and Taxonomies. Additionally it allows you to filter archive pages by language.</p>
<h4>Support Forum</h4>
<p>For quicker support on this plugin go to: <a href="https://code.recuweb.com/support/forum/wordpress-plugins/language-switcher/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://code.recuweb.com/support/forum/wordpress-plugins/language-switcher/</a></p>
<h4>Free Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>STANDALONE – No WordPress Multisite required</li>
<li>MIXED SOURCES – map internal or external urls</li>
<li>POST TYPE LANGUAGE – Add a main language selector to post types and map urls of alternative languages</li>
<li>TAXONOMY LANGUAGE – Add a main language selector to terms and map urls of alternative languages</li>
<li>HREFLANG LINKS – Add hreflang links into the head of each page and improve the SEO</li>
<li>MENU LANGUAGE – Add a main language selector to the menu settings and switch the menu accordingly</li>
<li>LANGUAGE FILTERS – Filter items by language in the main WP_Query of archive pages</li>
<li>LANGUAGE WIDGET – Add the language switcher with the widget</li>
<li>LANGUAGE SHORTCODE – Add the language switcher anywhere with the shortcode [language-switcher]</li>
<li>LANGUAGE MENUS – Add the language switcher to your navigation menus</li>
<li>SWITCHER TITLE – Select from multiple options to customize the switcher title</li>
<li>COUNTRY FLAGS – Add country flags manually to your Theme Additional CSS or style.css</li>
</ul>
<h4>Addon Features</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://code.recuweb.com/get/language-switcher-everywhere/" rel="nofollow ugc">LANGUAGE EVERYWHERE</a> –  Enable language switcher for custom post types and taxonomies such as WooCommerce Product, Order, Category and Tags</li>
</ul>
<h4>Compatibility</h4>
<ul>
<li>Polylang</li>
</ul>
<h4>Localization</h4>
<ul>
<li>English</li>
</ul>
<h4>Documentation</h4>
<p>For all documentation on this plugin go to: <a href="https://code.recuweb.com/download/language-switcher/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://code.recuweb.com/get/language-switcher/</a></p>


Language Switcher

Language Switcher allows you to map urls of alternative languages for Post Types and Taxonomies. Additionally it allows you to filter archive pages by language.

This plugin works fine!

Add a Language Switcher to Menus, Post Types and Taxonomies.

Performant Translations vs Language Switcher