
WPML vs Weglot vs Polylang: How to Translate WordPress in 2026
A clear, honest comparison of WPML, Weglot and Polylang — how each works, what it costs, who it suits, and where AI translation fits in.
Product announcements, engineering deep-dives, and lessons from building WordPress plugins and SaaS products.

A clear, honest comparison of WPML, Weglot and Polylang — how each works, what it costs, who it suits, and where AI translation fits in.

Add AI translation to Polylang and make your WordPress site multilingual — free, layout-safe, and without hours of manual work. A screenshot-by-screenshot walkthrough.

A step-by-step guide to translating an Elementor website with AI — without breaking your layout, and without WPML or Weglot. Set up languages, translate a page, review, and publish.

Contact form translation (CF7, WPForms, Gravity Forms, JetFormBuilder), SureCart products, the full Jet suite, Elementor v4 atomic widgets, generic custom-field translation, a Switch Default Language migration, and bulk dashboard actions across v1.6.2–v1.7.55.

Complete WooCommerce language isolation across product queries, mini-cart, cart/checkout URLs, and translation file loading — plus an AJAX detection chain, a Polylang repair tool, and new admin tooling.

Biggest gains in translation speed and reliability, plus stronger WooCommerce support across the v1.5 release line.

Elementor template reliability, WooCommerce My Account endpoints, language prefix routing, bulk delete, and 30+ improvements across 36 releases.

Batch translation 20x faster, inline save buttons, language switcher toggle, taxonomy term translation, and more. Here's everything we polished across 16 point releases.

Full WooCommerce product translation, proper translated URL slugs, and a new Exclude Words feature. Our biggest release yet.

We've rebranded, dropped the Polylang/WPML requirement, and shipped a built-in language system. Here's the full story.