Plugin info

Total downloads: 152,512
Active installs: 7,000
Total reviews: 37
Average rating: 4.6
Support threads opened: 0
Support threads resolved: 0 (0%)
Available in: 6 language(s)
Contributors: 5
Last updated: 12/4/2025 (27 days ago)
Added to WordPress: 10/5/2009 (16 years old)
Minimum WordPress version: 4.7
Tested up to WordPress version: 6.9
Minimum PHP version: 7.2

Maintenance & Compatibility

Maintenance score

Actively maintained • Last updated 27 days ago • 37 reviews

74/100

Is WPML Multilingual for BuddyPress and BuddyBoss abandoned?

Likely maintained (last update 27 days ago).

Compatibility

Requires WordPress: 4.7
Tested up to: 6.9
Requires PHP: 7.2

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Description

The plugin allows building multilingual BuddyPress and BuddyBoss sites with WPML. It works with single-site or multi-site installations. Both the main site and child blogs can run multilingual.

Guest blogs can choose their language and create multilingual contents. Additionally, each guest can choose the admin language individually .

Requirements:

  • WPML 4.5.x or higher. You must enable ‘languages per directories’ or ‘languages per domain’.

Features

  • Adds language switching to all BuddyPress/BuddyBoss pages (Activity, Groups, Profile and Register page)
  • Allows to select the language when viewing user profiles
  • Keeps the language consistent when clicking on different links (by adding the language to links)
  • Allows to translate email notifications
  • Keeps the entire BuddyPress/BuddyBoss workflow in the current language (create group, change avatars etc.)

Need Support?

Please submit support requests to WPML forum. Remember to report:

  • The versions of BuddyPress/BuddyBoss, WPML and WordPress that you’re using.
  • A URL to your site, where we can see the problem happening.
  • A description of what you expect to see and what you’re seeing in practice.

Installation

  1. Unzip and upload contents of buddypress-multilingual.zip file to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
  2. Activate the plugin.
  3. Enable WPML.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why cannot I use language as parameter?

Support for language as parameter will not be added soon as we’re looking for solutions other than filtering all kinds of navigation and action links.

Review feed

Drazen
4/15/2022

Added support for the BuddyBoss

Thanks for adding support for the BuddyBoss platform in the latest versions. Keep up the great development work and support!
christopher.amirian
4/25/2022

Great new update

The new update is great, it adds the support for BuddyBoss and the ability to translate the email notifications which I long waited for.

Screenshots

  1. Language switcher in the navigation

    Language switcher in the navigation

  2. Message in other language

    Message in other language

  3. Activity stream

    Activity stream

  4. Profile

    Profile