EPISODE · May 11, 2021 · 2 MIN

WPML vs Polylang | When to choose a free plugin?

from BarrazaCarlos.com Digital Marketing, Entrepreneurship & Professional Development · host Carlos Alberto Barraza Lopez

Among the multilingual plugins available out there, I had to give it a try to Polylang. For my website I use WPML, but for a dummy website I installed Polylang. The big advantage that I saw on Polylang was that it is free, although for extra features you have to buy extra add-ons. So for sure, this would be recommended for all those small WordPress Websites that have just a few pages. You don’t have to spend a cent at the beginning, you just have to spend time installing it. At first it was a bit confusing, since it users experience at the beginning seem a little bit to old, in comparison on the User Interface that plugins such as WPML or Weglot have. Polylang also offers an automatic translation, but for this you have to install Lingotek. You can have up to 100,000 characters for free, but you could also do a manual translation. As I have mentioned in other articles such as WPML Review or Weglot vs WPML, WPML is a great plugin when it we are talking about WordPress websites that have plenty of text. WPML doesn’t have any word count limitation, and you can easily add or remove languages. Polylang didn’t have a direct widget for Elementor, and in contrast WPML does have one. WPML has recently added Deepl to its automatic translation, therefore it has a better automatic translation. But also, you will have to buy some credits to be able to use this automatic translation. So as said, Polylang is recommended for small websites with low content, and WPML is recommended for websites who aim to have no word count limit, have multiple languages, and also who has a better compatibility also with SEO Plugins such as Rank Math or Yoast. To read more visit: WPML vs Polylang.