In these days, creating a multilingual website (bilingual/multilingual) is becoming popular even a requirement when building a website. To fulfil this requirement, you can take advantages of various premium plugins. Besides, there are also lots of useful free translation plugins that you can try.

You can refer to our collection below to select the most suitable plugin for your WordPress website.

1. Polylang 

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Polylang is known as one of the most popular multilingual plugins which allow you to create a bilingual or multilingual WordPress site easily. This plugin allows you to select languages in admin, translate your posts, pages, taxonomies and even images. Moreover, the admin interface is multilingual too, so that each user can set the WordPress admin language in its profile. To get more useful features and add-ons, you can refer to its official website.

2. Loco translate

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This is another powerful translation plugin - Loco Translate, which allows you to translate both plugins and themes directly in your browser. You can also create and update language files (.mo and .po) directly in your theme or plugin.

If you are a developer, you will find it easy to extract translatable strings from your source code. Why don’t you give this plugin a try to discover more other useful functions.

3. qTranslate X 

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qTranslate X is a user-friendly multilingual dynamic content management that you can translate all the text of multilingual fields into the language chosen. A number of languages is already included, so that you can easily select your desired language at will. If you can’t find your language in this list, don’t worry because you are able to upload your own language straightforwardly with this plugin. This qTranslate X plugin has a lot of useful functions to offer you; thus, let give it a try.

4. WPGlobus – Multilingual Everything 

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As its name, WPGlobus allows you to translate all posts, pages, categories, tags menus and widgets manually. You can add one or several languages to your WordPress site easily. Moreover, there are various free Add-ons that you can use to take all advantages of this plugin such as WPGlobus Featured Images, WPGlobus Translate Options, WPGlobus for WPBakery Visual Composer and WPGlobus for Black Studio TinyMCE Widget. You can also refer more premium add ons of this plugin here .

5. Translate WordPress with Gtranslate 

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Gtranslate uses Google Translation service to translate your content automatically. With more than 100 available languages, you can translate your site to any language. In this plugin, Google Analytics is also integrated; moreover, you can add the language switcher widget to any position you want.

That are some free multilingual plugins you can use to translate your website into other languages. Besides these free plugins, you can install a powerful premium plugin – WPML. To know how to translate your site with WPML, you can refer to this tutorial.