WPML is a premium plugin that “makes WordPress run multilingual”, as stated on its About page. Specifically, it says that the plugin “lets authors write content in different languages and translate content. It also includes advanced features for translation management and an interface for professional content translation.”
Launched in 2007, WPML is the “big boss” of multilingual plugins on WordPress, in terms of the number of users. According to the figures it reports, WPML is used on about a million sites, making it the most popular on the market.
The advantages of WPMLIf WPML has been able to carve out quite a share of the cake for more than a decade, it’s because it concentrates quite a few assets, highlighted on its home page:
- Its support (user assistance) is supposed to be very reactive.
- It helps you to optimize your site for multilingual SEO.
- It allows you to translate all the elements of your site: posts, pages, custom post types, menus, widgets. Not to mention the texts of your plugins and your theme.
- It allows you to translate the contents of your online store created with WooCommerce.
- It is compatible with many famous themes and plugins: Yoast SEO, Elementor, Divi, Gravity Forms, WooCommerce.
