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Dion Hulse

Pascal Birchler

WordPress Performance Team

Making internationalization/localization in WordPress faster than ever before.
<h3>Disclaimer about WordPress 6.5</h3>
Attention: most functionality of this plugin has been merged into WordPress 6.5! You might not need it anymore.
However, 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.
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.
<h3>What this plugin does</h3>
This project uses a new approach to handle translation files in WordPress, making localization blazing fast.
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.
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.
If your site is using a language other than English (US), you should see immediate speed improvements simply by activating this plugin.

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.

Supertext

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This plugin allows the user to send a WordPress post or page to Supertext for translation or proofreading.
Process for translation
Supertext can translate content, titles, excerpts, image captions, shortcode arguments and custom fields. Simply order a translation instead of creating a new page. 
You will be presented with services, prices and deadlines. Select the right one for you. 
Once completed, the translation will be automatically inserted into a new page or post in your WordPress installation. 
You’ll be notified by email once your translated content has been uploaded to your website. 
This works for every post type that is translatable by Polylang or WPML.
Process for proofreading
For proofreading your existing page or post, select the option “order proofread”. You will be presented with services, prices and deadlines. 
Select the right one for you. Once completed, the proofread text will automatically be inserted into your post or page in your WordPress installation.
Please note
Translatable custom fields must be defined in the settings. Supported plugins at the moment are:
<ul>
<li>Advanced Custom Fields</li>
<li>Yoast SEO</li>
<li>All In One SEO pack</li>
</ul>
If the field is not available in one of the lists, you can define it by adding self defined custom fields.
The plugin supports following page builders:
<ul>
<li>Visual Composer</li>
<li>Beaver Builder</li>
<li>BE page builder</li>
<li>Divi page builder</li>
<li>SiteOrigin page builder</li>
<li>Elementor</li>
</ul>
We highly recommend to test the translation process for the page builders mentioned above and for any other that you may use.

Supertext Translation and Proofreading

This plugin allows you to order human translations for your pages and posts using Supertexts professional translation services.

Performant Translations vs Supertext Translation and Proofreading